Thoughts, Opinions, & Experiences

Most people who grow up in the South have roots - deep ones. The kind that go back generations, where everyone knows who your third cousin is and which family member invented the casserole your eating. I, however, arrived in the South under very different circumstances: I was three years old, mildly opinionated, and completely unaware that my Northern identity was about to be thrown into a cultural blender. I was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, a place where people talk fas

If there's one question that has consistently haunted me from childhood through college, it's this one: "So...what do you want to do in life?" Every time someone asked, I wish I had a simple answer like, "Nurse!" or "Teacher!" or "Person Who Has It Together!" Instead, my responses always sounded more like an anarchy-ridden course catalog: Aerospace engineering seems fun. But I love journalism. Art history is fascinating. Law could be interesting... Astrophysics? Sure, wh