Marlene is a freshman at one of the high schools offering the QUESTion Class. At the end of the Fearlessness pillar, she wrote these answers in response to some questions that her teacher posed. It wasn’t too hard for us […]
By Angelina Arias
Student, Bronx High School for Law and Community Service
Tom eagerly stepped through the doors of the train and sat in a nearby seat. […]
By Katery Castelan
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
There has never been anything more admiring.
You are complex.
The way you define […]
By Levi Lamb
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
Isolation,
such a commonly used word.
But do I feel
isolated?
How can you not,
lonely nights, tragic deaths.
Constant reminders that this is your
life.
And you shape it the way you want.
Yes,
I feel isolated,
even though there are many […]
By Tahera Uddin
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
I sat across from a man in a NYC subway who stood out from everyone else. It wasn’t how he was dressed, what he was saying […]
By Mohamed Ramy
Student, Amherst College
Ever since I can remember, I have strived to be the perfect man: I remember learning more than two foreign languages to be erudite, studying chess and learning the guitar to impress others, and understanding what […]
Courtney Ross
Student, Florida State University
This was the moment I had been waiting for all night. It was three in the morning and I was finally home after a long double shift at TGI Friday’s. I ripped off my stained […]
By Natalia Inoa
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
“You live there?” my friend says, pointing at the small gray building across the street. “There?” she repeats. Each syllable hits me like a stone. It was no longer a question, but a […]
By Karla Perez
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
There are people in this world who live with a jumping man inside of them. No, the jumping man is not associated with a genetic disease. No, he did not just hop […]
By Brandon Moreno
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
“What is this… Is this what you wanted? Was it?!”
It was here on the last day of my inadequate sophomore year that I reflected. I stared down at numbers displayed on a […]
