The password to my phone is 134340. The digits of Pluto’s identity. For some reason I have always felt this affinity for that little planet, now not planet, all the way out in the galaxy. When it was announced that Pluto would no longer be a planet, I felt this…

I developed this habit of visualizing ideas within black and white. Every sketch that I do for art classes is done by painting a regular white sheet of drawing paper with a layer of black acrylic paint and then drawing on top of that layer with white charcoal. This habit…

This topic came up recently in my ART 105 class because I am doing a group project with some of my classmates designing a billboard that looks into what is going in our country right now regarding asian hate. Having a perspective on the Pacific Islander side of things, I…

Hi, this is just a reminder to do as I say and not as I do. It’s good to drink water, so hopefully researching this and writing this will also somehow make my brain listen and put cup to mouth. Your body needs water to survive. It’s your body’s principal…

When I tell you that my sister can’t cook, she can’t cook. Not only is her taste in food (in my opinion) absolute trash, but she does not use anything except a microwave. …

During most of my time in high school, I had to quit playing video games so that not only could I attain the grades that I wanted but also narrowly balance all the extracurriculars that I piled on top of me. There was always quite a lot on my plate. …

Yes, you did in fact read that title correctly. — Yeah, I’m still taking it in all too, don’t worry. The day after my WRIT 150 class where we generously unpacked the WP2 projects of everyone, you could say I had my own little time to reflect on my work and my own intellectual identity in the ER. Overnight I had developed a sharp pain in my chest that just…

Black & White are some of my most developed pigments, as they resemble beginning and ending points in my life and the monotony of it all. As all of these colors flow in my mind, I often can relate more to the absence of them. At the lowest points…