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Expectations vs Reality; Trinity's Blog #1

5/10/2024

My whole life, I’ve had to live up to higher expectations. Mostly towards my siblings. You see, I grew up being the only girl in my family, besides my mother. I don’t know why that gave me higher expectations than my brothers, but unfortunately it did. I don’t know whether to say I’m happy or sad about it...

Empowering Education, The perfect name; Max's Blog #2

5/10/2024

In all honesty, when I first heard the name Empowering Education, I thought it was just a catchy title for the organization. But, as I finally completed the first portion of my passion project, I realized its meaning. My project originated from my grandfather's victimization due to a criminal telephone scam during the summer. My grandfather, “Popples,” we call him, received a phone call from a distressed, recognizable voice...

Growing up; Talia's Blog #2

5/10/2024

When you’re in elementary school, they’re preparing you for middle school. They force the idea by reminding you how there’s no “easy way out” and you must work for what you earn. When you’re in middle school, they’re preparing you for high school. They instill more fears with the difficulty of your course load. In high school, they try to prepare us for college and our lives after. My upcoming junior meeting is supposed to help me figure out what school I want to go to and what I want to major in, yet, I never truly faced the reality of what this all meant until the summer of 2023...

Contentment; Maggie's Blog #2

5/10/2024

Throughout high school I have strived to do better than my best and pushed myself far beyond what I ever imagined. Still I find myself constantly dissatisfied with my achievements, and finding ways for me to be unhappy with what I have accomplished. The textbook definition for contentment is “state of happiness and satisfaction”. But just because I’m not satisfied, does that mean I am not in a state of happiness?...

What freshman year taught me; Daniela's Blog #2

5/10/2024

Freshman year was quite a transition year from middle school into high school. Not only was it the first year of high school, which is typically a milestone for some people, it was also going to be the first year of school that would be normal ever since the Covid-19 pandemic. My first year of high school was a rollercoaster in and of itself as I not only developed as a person and who I am, but it also taught me some really valuable lessons...

Porcelain Perfection; Amelia's Blog #2

5/10/2024

Like a porcelain doll, I have spent my life feeling as though I was placed on a shelf to admire. My first memory of school is from kindergarten. We were taking tests for Spanish class, and most of my classmates couldn’t read yet so the aide was reading the exam aloud. I knew how to read and took the test on my own, not following her pace...

Time is not the enemy; Micah's Blog #7

5/10/2024

Opened eyes to my dark room, harboring the silhouette of posters and my chair neatly pushed into my desk. Observing the ceiling, I see it painted with cracks from the shadows made by the streetlamp’s light across my house. It peered through the upper gap in my shades; “an abstract design made from the lens of tree branches” I thought, yet it remained still, fitting equally in each corner...

Your new home; Micah's Blog #6

2/29/2024

I never really understood the fact that leaving such a familiar place was so hard. I went in blind since I was young and didn’t know what this new place was going to be like, but looking back at when I lived in Brooklyn..

Maggie's Blog #1

1/30/2024

I do my hair and put blue sparkly eyeshadow in the corner of my eyes. The fall air fills up my nose and blows between my curls. A feeling so familiar, opening a little memory that sits dusty in the back of my mind...

365 days of work; Daniela's Blog #1

1/30/2024

Three hundred sixty five days. From Aug 31 2022 - Aug 31, 2023, it's been a constant cycle of work. My whole life I’d been used to summer breaks, holiday breaks, even weekends to be a break from an everyday life of school and simply sitting back and relaxing...

Who am I; Micah's Blog #5

12/28/2023

Who am I, something that I ask myself when I feel down or when I accomplish something big. In a sense, it's a way to reset myself. Being a hard worker falls under most of the passion I developed for the things I love being; I am a student, I am a computer major, I am a pianist, I am an African American. Those are only a handful of things that I think about when I describe myself because those are the important things that make up me...

Community in a Hurricane; Amelia's Blog #1

12/28/2023

When I was five, a hurricane came and destroyed my home. For the first time in my life, my home, my safe haven, my rock, was dangerous and scary. I was homeless for a while, and had few possessions. My entire life was packed up into a few boxes and moved around constantly...

I'm not everything anymore, and I'm happy that way; Max's Blog #1

12/28/2023

At the beginning of my freshman year, I had a straightforward goal: “I need to do everything and be everything because that’s what colleges want.” My previous self would soon come to the realization that I was wrong, twice...

Being a shooting star; Talia's Blog #1

11/19/2023

As part of my passion project, I visit women and children’s shelters. I’ve spent several hours preparing and negotiating to be given the opportunity to be the Shooting Star in a struggling child’s life. I’ve dedicated my entire life to...

Bittersweet; Karolyne's Blog #8

8/3/2023

Even just the thought of having my very last meeting with my mentee brings tears to my eyes. I have only known her for a year, but I have seen the leaps and bounds she has made as a person. Honestly, the first couple of months of meeting, it was a bit awkward and some of our interactions felt forced almost. Through various activities, study sessions, and intense games of monopoly, we grew closer...

The hill I must climb; Micah's Blog #2

4/17/2023

I am at that age where one can not act or be like a kid anymore. I am put in a setting where the next path is chosen by me and it is quite the daunting experience...

Communities and Connections; Karolyne's Blog #5

2/19/2023

I am part of the niche community of Model UN at my school. As an upperclassmen member of my school’s Model UN club, I act as a mentor...

Sewing my own tapestry

2/19/2023

Who am I? Someone born March 15th, 2005 at 11:52am. To the federal government, a nine digit Social Security number. To New York State, a nine digit driver’s license. To credit Bureaus, a 3 digit credit score. To nefarious parties, a potential identity to be stolen. But my true identity cannot be stolen...

Fitting in; Micah's Blog #1

1/8/2023

The word expectation reflects the balance in one's success and failure. To succeed you must be able to fail and recover. That means you must be willing to take risks, listen to others, and...

Silver Lining; Liora's Blog #4

8/19/2022

It would be the day before I left for one of the most exciting and thrilling experiences this summer when I saw the words I most dreaded in my email...

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