They did surgery on a grape. They did surgery on a grape. Ah, memes. So loved, yet so short lived. They give us great joy before fading away into the forgotten, deepest depths of our minds. But, why don’t we keep these great jokes going? I still remember one of the first memes: “badger badger […]

As the semester rolls on, everyone has spent a little more time testing and a lot more time stressing about testing. After all, it’s just awesome to know that you could spend hours learning material inside-out, only to fail a test where the professor decided the best way to test your knowledge of specific subject […]

Sourced: Pranidchakan Boonrom I really don’t know why this is still an issue, but why is no one really talking about the Ebola outbreak that is spreading through the Democratic Republic of Congo? I have written a lot about outbreaks of diseases in the last year, but I guess that I need to keep writing […]

I catch people doing it all the time: you ask them a question when you want an honest opinion and you see them hesitate to tell you the truth. In some conversations, it’s best to “sugar-coat” your opinion to avoid hurting someone’s feelings, but sometimes I just want honesty, brutal, unedited honesty. When I see […]

Mental health is a topic that is discussed pretty frequently in the media nowadays, but it is not talked about in the right way. The way that mental health and mental illnesses are talked about today is, in its own right, inherently stigmatizing. This week is suicide awareness week and stigmatization of mental health is […]

Happiness can be seen as a subjective and elusive state of mind. It is completely dependent on your perspective and how you see things. Therefore, it is up to you to determine what makes you happy and what does not. Given that we are constantly exposed to the beliefs and opinions of other people, it […]

With the majority of Earth being covered by the ocean, you would think that people would go the extra mile to protect marine organisms and to keep the oceans clean. But no, why would anyone ever do anything to help the ocean when it would be easier for them to just keep polluting the ocean […]

As someone who considers themselves to be a “Broadway musical playlist enthusiast,” I’m especially delighted that Dear Evan Hansen came to Broward County. Beginning its three-week run at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on March 26, the show is without a doubt one of my favorite musicals. The soundtrack is exquisite—”Waving Through A […]

Summer of my high school senior year, I wanted to chop half of my hair off. All of a sudden in the midst of all changes happening in my life, friends moving away, knowing that my daily high school routine would be forever disrupted made me want to change my hair to reflect on the […]

If you paid attention to the news in 2014, you definitely heard of the West Africa Ebola outbreak. The outbreak started in Dec. 2014, with the first documented case being found in a village in Guinea. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention believed that the virus was contracted from bats. The first fatalities were […]