The Boeing Starliner, a once promising spacecraft, departed from the International Space Station (ISS) empty-handed, leaving behind its two astronauts, Sunita “Suni” Williams (58) and Barry “Butch” Wilmore (61), at the ISS
I’ve always considered myself a morning person, but when my 9 AM internship forced me to wake up at 6:45 even in the summer, I dreaded the monotony of the “Early Riser”
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Scattered through my camera roll of my friends’ faces, the whiteboard in class, songs I like and NYC views are endless photos of the sky. Since I was young, I’ve been fascinated
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Classical antiquity has fascinated me since elementary school. Like many young readers, I was captivated by Rick Riordan’s Greek gods and goddesses in the “Percy Jackson” novels and soon continued on to
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As a fifth-generation New Yorker with close ties to a large, local extended family, I am keenly aware that a significant part of who I am—my understanding of the world and my
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I was exhausted when I woke up. It was 7:00 AM: way too early for the midst of summer break. Before that morning, disregarding a few small hiccups caused by various other
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