After waking up in the middle of the night and emptying the contents of my stomach all over the floor,…
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“My body just locked up and I collapsed,” Matthew Nawn recalled. Known for its difficulty, the Boston Marathon winds through eight…
“Did someone lock the door?” It was a common question we’d hear whenever we got into the car. My father…
“I called to ask your scholarship provider,” my dad said over the phone. “They think you’re a freshman.” The problem?…
Whether I was wrestling with theorems in unified geometry, had to remember names of capitals in geography, or was forced…
“I’m sorry, you can what?” the person asked me. The question made me pause. At a dinner years ago, I…
I grew up in a musical family. Because my mother was a voice teacher, piano prodigy, and arranger, and because…
“It doesn’t seem that big to me,” I said before I had another bite of my food. Recently, after we…
Math and I were not friends. During my elementary school years, I didn’t always have a natural aptitude for math.
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