After twenty years of dedicated work, I applied for my dream job— a job where I could connect with peers in positive ways while promoting teaching and learning. Within a year of being hired, I realized that there is something...
I believe that misfortune might be a blessing in disguise. As usual, misfortune happens every now and then. Sometimes, we can not avoid it and must accept it. However, when looking back, connecting the dots, perhaps you will find the...
Growing up, I had a pretty rough childhood. When I was about ten years old, my family’s apartment was consumed by fire and lost everything i owned. All of my childhood memories/gone/scattered in huge piles of debris that would mean...
Every day I am surrounded by failure, and people telling me I have not done well enough. For any high school student, this is a very common feeling, and most people see it as a bad thing and only let...
Everything started back in July of 2013 It was quite weird, how we met. I was in subways ordering a sandwich, and I felt something grazing my shoulder. I thought nothing of it and brushed off what I thought to...
Growing up with a unique physical appearance, I was immediately placed into the category of defected and disabled, although as a youth I erred at the idea of being indisposed. The older I grew, the more I became prone to...
Growing up with dyslexia, William Wissemann learned how to break down words and sentences into smaller parts so he could understand them. As he got older, Wissemann found this skill useful for solving everything from Rubik's Cubes to life's tricky puzzles.
Success is a topic that generates many opinions. One opinion of success comes from Booker T. Washington. He stated “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life...
I believe that having faith in the people you love is the most important gift you can give them. I believe that love that is spent worrying about the “what ifs” and the potential dragons that might show up around...
