On a quick weekend trip to New York City, Brooklyn specifically, to visit my grandparents with my Dad, we flew into La Guardia, hopped in a cab, and spent an hour in the city traffic. Between naps in the cab, my dad surprised me and told me that we would be seeing Mean Girls on Broadway the next night. Already thrilled about this short trip, … Continue reading Mean Girls: From Cinemas to Broadway

Throughout Pete Earley’s Crazy, readers are exposed to the extremely inhumane treatments of mentally ill patients in the Miami Dade County Jail; unfortunately, this horrible treatment is not solely in Miami but is occurring throughout the nation. It baffles me how people can actually treat other humans so terribly even though they are both humans. The ways that patients in the Miami Dade County Jail … Continue reading The Unethical Ways of Prison

Mental health and mental illness have been stigmatized over the past centuries as less than a chemical imbalance in the brain; it has been seen that ill people are simply “crazy” or just out of their minds. Nonetheless, mental illness is medically defined as an imbalance of chemicals in the brain yet people are treated as though they have gone crazy. Like any type of … Continue reading Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Backward

Clearly defined by dictionary.com, a citizen is “a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection,” while citizenship is defined as “the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen.” Any person born in the United States is automatically granted citizenship and there are ways for immigrants … Continue reading Citizenship

Accompanied by tacos and Jenni’s ice cream, fellow CSTers, Caroline Hughes, Hannah Nyren, Sami Scholl, Julianna Gordon, and I drove down to the city to see the infamous, She The People performance at The Second City Comedy Club. In a place where current stars, Steve Carrel, Tina Fey, Mike Meyers, Amy Poehler, and many more, began their careers, we knew that we were in for … Continue reading “SHE THE PEOPLE”

By placing the photograph of a man holding a sign that says, “COPS STOP KILLING US” around elements that are mostly text, I aimed to pull readers’ attention directly to that picture to emphasize the overall theme of my Mashboard. The photograph, although relatively dark, is extremely powerful as it exemplifies the pleads to end racism and brutality that has overpowered our country since the … Continue reading Inmate

On one of the warmer days this winter break, fellow CSTer, Sami Scholl, and I headed to downtown Chicago to explore the Chicago Cultural Center. Although I have been to the city countless times throughout my life, I had never heard of this center and didn’t really know what to expect. When we entered, we went to an exhibit that featuring Peacemakers and Community Connections, … Continue reading Wonders Within the Windy City

Milton Bradley Company seems as though they had life figured out when they produced The Game of Life back in 1860. Simplifying life into four categories, career, salary, house deeds, and stock. Players learn the importance of money and the typical path of life, from birth to death. This game teaches players important aspects of life and how to make significant decisions, like going to … Continue reading The Game of Life

We believe That our principles Are the universal reality   We need a new awareness That our beliefs are not all that there are in the world That interpreting the world might be essential to our survival   Our world is a system Within this system, we separate ourselves based on our beliefs But we don’t see that the distinct separation is whats oppressing this … Continue reading Believe

For my SAMO, I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art to visit the I Was Raised on the Internet exhibit. I went with fellow CSTers, Hannah Nyren, Maggie Myers, Jack Joselit, Sami Leibow, Corey Wessel, Jared Kuper, and Spencer Testa. This exhibit allowed me to view technological advancements that have come into play in recent history. As I’ve grown up, I haven’t really thought … Continue reading “I Was Raised On the Internet”