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Around a month ago, I whined my way through an application for the Ashoka Changemakers global competition. The topic was Financial Inclusion...

My little brother, Cody, made a new friend. One who had blond locks, polite mannerisms, and a crazy cool dirt bike. Or so I had heard. He di...

Welcome to my Chinese class. Girl J keeps her hands tucked into her sleeves like the emperor in Mulan . She seems like the type who would ...

Last night, for my last honors portfolio entry, I watched a play about Florence Foster Jenkins , an American soprano who became a legend for...

Graduation is a loaded word for me. On one hand, it means accomplishment and completion (or not because I'll stay for spring to finish u...

When the world was watching the earthquakes, tsunamis, and nuclear emergencies in Japan several weeks ago, a small group of Asians in BYU g...

The Donner Party was a group of pioneers (not the Mormon ones) who attempted to cross the freezing plains to reach California in 1846-7. Th...

People tend to write about what they know best. And in the case of my Chinese 202 class, my fresh-off-the-mish students apparently know all ...

It's so ironic that I'm writing a paper for my OB class on how to motivate Kaplan employees . . . and yet I'm not at all motivat...

What happens when you tell a bunch of college students to revamp the Kennedy Center's supposedly "too serious" image with depa...

In my Doctrine and Covenants class today, we were asked to fill out a yellow sheet with our personal information. There was a column asking ...

I just realized that I never finished blogging about NY. BYU won top honors for both teams (Germany and Medecins Sans Frontieres) that we re...

Model United Nations (MUN) started last night. We've been preparing for this for a whole year and now we're finally here in NY and c...

Last night, my friends and I were going strong hitting the econ books at 1 a.m. (which was not a good idea since our test was at 7 a.m. this...

I'm sorry. I'm done. It was fun while it lasted. But now I'm all burned out - you are too confusing. I'm not negating everyt...

There is a very thin line between overhearing and eavesdropping - especially while I'm walking around on campus. Here are a couple of t...

I used to have this lofty illusion of being the busy-bee early-riser (a.k.a. Chelsea), who somehow manages to do all her laundry, bake some ...