My high school life was ending and a broader world was creeping nearer. Understanding what I really wanted and outlining the future made me sleepless and troubled. It was another of those nights when there was a knock on the window. You should imagine the shock I got when there was a face in midai..

I’m a minority. To make things worse, I’m a minority within a minority group. I’m Korean but my last name is not Kim, Lee or Park. It’s Ryu (pronounced You but with a R sound in front and not Rye-U).Unlike most Koreans I didn’t score an 800 or close to an 800 on my SA..

I was a listless, lackadaisical, poor excuse for a human being. It was disgusting. I couldn’t wake up for school if my life depended on it. I never had time to eat breakfast and if I made it to school on time I sat in class without a thought; as a shell without a ghost...

...The shouts reverberated within the tightly packed scrum. I tried to assess the situation and make sense of this orchestrated chaos. The ball entered the scrum and I kicked the ball behind me. Soon, the scrum broke. In a moment, I had the ball in my arms and I ran as fast as I can towards the en..

Seoul’s sky was grey as usual. It was rush hour and the traffic at this time spewed tons of carbon emissions that lingered effortlessly above Seoul’s cityscape. To its credit the smog did help create some of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve seen. That day, the amber and pinkish hu..

Django, boasts a pearly white coat, stands a foot off the ground and is pudgier than when I first met him a year ago at the animal shelter. I saved him as every dog that was not adopted was put to sleep. I am not a zealot that throws paint at people who wear fur, but I do express myself against ex..