I just wanted friends. I just wanted someone to like me. I just wanted someone to talk to. But when people want something badly enough, they sometimes end up doing some regrettable things. At least, I...

Its kind of funny how things work out and how a normal day at work could change your life. It was the beginning of October and my third month of being a certified lifeguard at Great Wolf Lodge. Tuesdays...

I guess I’ve established that I won’t make a boy a sandwich, but have I gone too far? I don’t exactly know how it got to this point, except I can say that over the past two years, I’ve somehow...

I’m just going to put this out there: We nerds at Marcus need to stop getting so much attention. We do, of course, appreciate the baskets of warm sugar cookies and Sour Patch Kids delivered to...

I’m sorry. I’m sorry for the way I treated you. For lying about everything. For throwing away our friendship without a second thought. But I’m mostly sorry that you’re not even the first person...

Sleep until 9 a.m. Go to PE. Go to newspaper. Go to theater. Go home. I’m living the senior dream. I don’t have a core class and I don’t have homework. I can snooze through senior in and stay...

It’s supposed to be where a kid can be a kid, but as a teenager working their first job, Chuck E. Cheese is quite the opposite from a playful wonderland. I stayed pretty calm when I was told I’d been...

Judgment #1: "He’s such a tool." "How would you know? You’ve never even met him." It was a typical summer night. My friends and I were gathered around the pool gossiping. That’s when Tyler* came...

"I’m so ready to be out of high school." Facebook statuses like this have been filling up my news feed for the past few weeks. It’s only September and everyone already has "senioritis." It seems like...