1st Hour 19-20 Language and Composition

Fears:  Death, Rejection, failure, log kya kahenge (what will people think) Annoyances:  Ignorance, lack of fairness Accomplishments:  goo...

Fears: butterflies/moths, spiders, inadequacy, rejection Annoyances: slow-walkers, chronic negativity Accomplishments: completed entire...

Fears : Losing family members, dying slowly, bizarre accidents Annoyances : ignorance, selfishness, delusions of superiority, the GOP Acco...

Fight fire with fire. Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. If they punch you, punch them back. These are all words that I've heard sin...

Though the more cynical side of me would like to scoff at the ridiculous price and difficulty of accessing higher education in this country,...

I love Northwestern. Chicago is perhaps my favorite city in the US.  It is a big city with historical landmarks and opportunity, but it is...

ZOMBIES (or White Walkers) HAVE ATTACKED. Detail your survival plan. OR Explain what scares you the most and why. OR Descri...

I watch TV, but mainly only for nostalgia's sake. Sometimes I'll turn on the TV and see that one of my favorite shows from Cartoon N...

Growing up between my parent's opposing views was challenging in how I've formed my priorities. My dad's concerns have always be...

Wow, another topic I really don't have much to say about, but how I wish I could. I can remember going to Maine as a really small kid, b...

Books and reading, definitely not my forte. I'll be completely honest, the only books I've read in the last year were for school, an...

So for a brief introduction, I'm Justin Zhu. I procrastinate and am a relatively lazy person. Of course like anyone else I want straight...

Mr. Logsdon, I hope you can understand my inability to complete this blog post... but I just can't.  Because I can't decide what I w...

It must be conceded that TV is a good form of entertainment.  If not, then awards such as the Emmys wouldn't mean anything, a TV wouldn...

Yes, there is a time for war. Although compromise and diplomacy are obviously preferred, it is naive to think that war is completely avoida...

I have a rather strong affinity, and ‘talent’, for anything involving geography, demographics, or maps. For some reason, which I have yet to...

Weed is the devil.  In the home of 2 healthcare providers, such sentiments have been repeated militantly throughout my life.  With the death...

The summer going into my sophomore year my family went to Ireland and Scotland.  While in Ireland, we witnessed firsthand the literal divisi...

Fears: Spiders, secretly having a disease a rare incurable disease no one could possibly discover until it was already too late, being alone...

Edit: A word of warning I get very ranty and longwinded in this one so I apologise. War is bad. Duh.      Anyone can tell you that war...

Metal straws. A new trend and a pathetic excuse for “environmental protection.” Recently, people— blinded by the overwhelming desire to be ...

My ideal college path is actually two colleges; For the first 2 years of my college career, I want to get my undergrad in Marine Biology at ...

Fears- failure of any kind, zombies, cancer, paralysis, deadly insects, my family being harmed, dying alone, and being socially isolated. A...

Fears: Losing people I love Annoyances: Uninformed People, Apathetic People Accomplishments: ACT Score, GSA, Confusions: Taxes, how the f...

I dislike serious topics. I'm a naturally lighthearted person, and I don't get serious super often, but this topic scares me. Talkin...

I constantly have something on my mind. Usually unimportant things, but sometimes, just sometimes, you will find an important thought. Curre...

I am almost always comfortable with myself and my body. Of course, there was a time where that wasn't true, but I can proudly say now th...

Japan. You can talk to me for 0.2 seconds and you would already know how much I love Japan. I was originally born in Illinois, the complete ...

For some reason I have yet to find out, I am terrified that I’ll upset someone and they’ll take it out on me violently. I have absolutely no...

My ideal college is the University of Kentucky because (hopefully) I can go there for free. If I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or a quan...

Here is a list of what I can remember, although there are definitely a few others: 1.   Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Hom...

Genocide in Sudan North Korea testing nuclear weapons Iran creating nuclear weapons Egypt Syria Terrorism Injustices and thre...

Annoyances - condescension (grhhhh I can’t STAND this one), shallowness, people who talk over the teacher to explain something to me whe...

William and Mary is the Goldilocks of colleges. With a population of 6,377 undergraduate students, William and Mary is a relatively small ...

Writing Territories Fears - Being helpless/useless, public or social interactions, dying Annoyances - People expecting subtlety in co...

To be completely honest, the last book I read this year was The Teenage Brain . Though I finished the book because it was an assignment, I w...

Fears: dying, losing people I love, losing in general Annoyances: loud people, people who copy their personalities from the internet/thei...

I personally do not watch much TV because mainly I don't have cable at home. The TV is used to play the Xbox and watch DVD's on, rat...

I find this blog post assignment comical as college is the incorrect choice. I am not sure if I will be submitting a college application ...

Fears-small spiders Annoyances- When I can't remember things, when the U.S. doesn't have different colored money  Accomplishment...

Something that challenged my beliefs is that I recently discovered that human trafficking is still a large industry in our world, our countr...