I have a confession to make: I enjoy reading college essays. No, I am not a crazy person. Most of the college admission essay samples I read in English class were, in my humble opinion, mediocre at...

I was not nervous. The walk down the impossibly long corridor wasn’t a detriment to my resolve. I was not perturbed by the curious—yet wary—faces of rivals and their parents. My...

Cash or credit? When buying consumer goods now days, it almost seems like “method of payment” is the only real decision left up to the consumer. With low prices and convenience at the...

In a vain effort to avoid doing homework, I recently found myself flipping through the dusty comic books stacked in the corner of my room, remnants of a bygone era. As I turned the tattered pages of volumes...

I stare at the whitewashed computer screen as the cursor helplessly flashes at me on the blank page. The digital clock next to me screams 11:11. Hoping superstition would save me in this time of need,...

As an adolescent male, it’s not often that I examine the contents of my prayers. Each evening before I go to bed, I attempt to give some sort of thanks to God for affording me the life that I am...

For one weekend this September, downtown St. Louis was alive.  Over Labor Day weekend, the Cardinals played a series with the Reds, which at the time was of the utmost importance, the Missouri Tigers...

Tolerance.  As Americans, we have long prided ourselves on our tolerance of others—their cultures, sensibilities, opinions, and perhaps most importantly, their religious views.  However, the...

“We come from monkeys, don’t you see the resemblance?!” I can shamefully recall using this line on countless occasions during heated arguments about evolution. I usually used it right...

On July 10 my family packed our bags for our annual family trip. With my sister having just graduated from my college, my brother going into his sophomore year at college, and me still attending high...