It’s the middle of the school year, and your teacher assigns you a several-month-long project. You think that’s plenty of time, and you put it off without a worry. After months pass, you only have a couple of weeks left, and you regret not working on it sooner. You feel stressed out, not knowing what […]
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It’s late at night and you are trying to finish an assignment you need to do when you hear a notification from your phone. You check it out, telling yourself you’ll return to work as soon as you see what it is. Upon opening your phone, you’re met with a meme compilation on YouTube. After
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3:36 AM, I read on my phone. It’s a Monday night in the middle of my summer break, and I’m restlessly shifting under my covers. I keep yawning, hoping to coax my body into the sleep I desperately need. But it never comes. I finally turn on the lights to scroll on my phone as
Our current world is a tumultuous landscape rife with technological innovation and cultural change. As we shed the vellum scrolls and drawn carriages of centuries past for the digital documents and automated vehicles of today, it can be easy to forget that not everything has changed. After all, we cannot automate exercise and the benefits
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Plastic is everywhere in our lives. Consider a day of running errands. Perhaps you are buying some new clothes that day. Maybe you get ready for a long day of shopping by going to a coffee shop, taking your coffee in a plastic to-go cup. When you shop, you place your clothes (some made from
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As humans, we often forget the importance of our most prized and under-appreciated possessions – our eyes. Each of our eyes are like a 4k smartphone camera, giving us the ability to envision a pristine, beautiful world. Today, however, many of us take our eyes for granted, staring at screens for hours on end without
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You wake up to the ringing of your phone alarm. It’s four in the morning, and you promised your friend to work out. You don’t feel hungry, so instead of eating a potent meal, you grab two cans of your favorite energy drink on the way out and chug them before leaving. Just ten minutes
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It is 9 am in the morning. My teacher pauses his lecture to wake up a student who has fallen asleep on his desk. It is 9 am in the morning. Why is this student struggling to stay awake so early into the day? And why am I also finding myself yawning, and wanting to
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