• High Seriousness

  by Maggie Crary

  A liberal arts college with a strong culture of participation, both in class discussion and campus activities. Passionate students with a love of learning. A holistic admissions process. Close relationships between students and professors. An American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) debate team or the tools to start one.

• Marching Forward With Little Women

  by Zaria Nyah Lowe

  I’ve always loved writing. As a child, I wrote essays for school on issues like gender inequality or deforestation, and journaled to vent emotions and record my life. Eventually I discovered poetry, and liked the freedom of it—how not every line needed to rhyme and I could play with different structures and tones.Inspiration

• Not My Fault

  by Anonymous

  Names have been changed.  At the beginning of freshman year, I started hanging out with new, cool people who liked the same alternative music I did. I was so excited for a restart from the bullying I endured in middle school. 

• Let Carrie Bradshaw Grow Up

  by Camila Ritter

  “Sex and the City” premiered on HBO a decade before I was born; the final SATC movie was released in my toddler years. And yet the show is still an ongoing topic among my peers, especially online.   I started watching the show more than a year ago, mostly because my friends were invested and begging me to watch.

• Killing My Darlings, But Not My Passion for Writing

  by Arina Limarieva

  I first heard about Youth Communication through my school when I was in 9th grade. I have loved writing since childhood: short stories, poetry, fanfics, lyrics, and more. I had recently moved to the U.S. after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, so I was acclimating to learning in a new language.

• You Feel Seen, But What’s Seeing You?

  by Elizabeth Castro

  I don’t know what I expected when, a few months ago, I opened the website that everyone around me had been talking about. As I scrolled through popular bots on Character.ai, represented with headshots ranging from anime to photorealistic, I noticed they all seemed to be seductive women with impossible body types or aggressive and overprotective men.