Lil Wayne

8th grade will always be one of my memorable year of my life, 8th grade will always be a year to love and remember every moment of my life, and 8th grade will always be a year I’ll never let go. I will never forget those unbelievable times with my friends hanging out during break, playing football and basketball going to school dances during fall, winter, spring, and summer, going to a field trip to Great America during the end of 8th grade year, and most importantly spending my…

The last two years have been filled with some of the best and worst moments of my life. I have dealt with some very drastic changes, including death and injury. Throughout all of the chaos there has been one constant, one person who has always been by my side. Cole is my best friend and has had one of the biggest influences in my attitude, perspective and choices. May 6, 2014 was a day that my world got flipped upside down. I lost my grandma, whom I was extremely close to. She helped raised me.…

I remember being a little child with these big goals and dreams in life. My mother told me I could be anything I wanted. All I had to do was dream it and believe it. Being a young child, I thought achieving goals were easy yet I was told otherwise. However, with a thorough plan and dedication I can meet these goals. Many goals come to mind but the most important goal is to change someone’s life for the better. By being a clinical psychologist I want to listen to someone’s problem and help…

One nice october morning my brothers and I were waiting on the bus to come so we could go to school. My big brother alex randomly shouted out “I’m bored!” The rest of us nodded our heads in agreement. I got up and walked around the junkyard we called our bus stop. I skipped over to the metal pile. I saw something to shiny to be in a junkyard. I called for my brothers and they came running. I picked up the shiny thing and it turned out to be a golf club. I started swinging it around. “Let me try…

Throughout my short life journey, soccer has been an enormous part of my life. I began playing soccer at a young age; this is the point in my life when I fell in love with the sport. As I grew older soccer became less of a hobby, and more of a lifestyle. Today, I am literate in the sport of soccer, because I have proficient skills, and a firm understanding of the game. I consider myself very soccer savvy, however the most important literacies I have acquired from soccer were the life skills of…

Blurred Lines It is a Friday night in East Halls; Fetty Wap, Drake, and Justin Bieber are blasting from all of the different rooms as gaggles of underage girls and boys are putting back Fireball, Svedka, and Vladimir Vodka (basically nail polish remover) like it is going out of style. Scantily clad lasses drunkenly stumble as they run to catch the over packed White Loop with their Vineyard Vines attired frat bros trailing at their heels. Upon arriving at their destination, the dimly lit basement…

The internet has become a cult that worships eccentricity. Take, for example, the killing of Harambe, a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a three-year-old boy got inside the gorilla’s enclosure, zoo officials decided to kill Harambe, fearing for the boy’s life. The controversial decision and odd news story has become the internet’s latest obsession. Through memes like chanting “Dicks out for Harambe,” saying “Harambe died for our sins,” and putting Harambe as a write-in candidate in the US…

I was born in a small village located in the country side of Ethiopia. My parents got divorced when I was only six month old. After the divorce was finalized my grandparents took the responsibility of raising me because my mom was not ready to raise me by herself. When I was ten we moved to Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia but I didn’t get the chance to go to school because the school was too far to attend. In about a year I got adapted. my adapted parents have other 3 biological kids,…

In the past several decades, thousands of people have immigrated to America in search of a better life or a fresh start. They came from all corners of the Earth: different cultures, languages, and life experiences. Eighteen years ago, my family immigrated to America from Ukraine to escape religious persecution and economic instability. My parents wanted their children to have the opportunity to get a good education and succeed in life because they never had that chance. Back in the Ukraine they…

“I made it, Mom! I’m now officially a member of the Hillside High School Cheerleading Squad!” I shouted to my mother as I ran inside my house after school. “Oh, Sophia! That’s great! I know you will love it, you have cheerleading in your blood.” my mother exclaimed back to me. I talked to my father about how he is now the dad of a cheerleader, I could tell he wasn’t as happy for me as my mother though. He sat me down and talked to me about how he doesn’t want boys to just see me as a pretty…