Eid Mubarak (say it back)! I remember being plucked out of school for two days out of the year, Eid al-Fitr (after Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha. My sister Zoya and I were embarrassed by the traditional desi clothing we were…
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My South Asian mother always praised me for saving her money. I never had any issues with my teeth compared to my siblings, each with braces and retainers galore. With that also comes the costs of adjustments and constant check…
Spring, 2020. I was enraged at my professors’ ineptitude to navigate online learning. Already starting the semester off as self-proclaimed “old-fashioned teachers”, they didn’t even know how to post grades on the school’s online platform. Granted, there was not enough…
Winter, 2019. We shouldn’t have lasted past this. Alex was sharing feelings and thoughts with me that he hadn’t with another human. I dragged those words out of him by showing him, overemphatically, that I cared just so he would…
Fall, 2019. Alex and I start our senior years at different schools but we still work together. I spend all of my time either at school or driving to school, then working every weekend. The responsibilities I had really kept…
I met Alex at work in July. He made me hate him the first time I met him, but he went out of his way to correct his mistake. We start talking more and more each day. One morning, he…