A tale of an immigrant’s adjustment to New York City and the impacts of childhood and cultural board games.
Memoir & Personal Essay
How I Ruined Extra Credit
This piece (a now-defunct common app response) describes how the encouragement of one teacher sparked my passion for writing.
Scaredy Cat
My obsession with fear started with my cousin’s scary stories and turned into a competition with my brother. While convincing myself to enjoy horror, I created monsters that haunted me in the dark.
Perfect Bad Grades
In which a smart girl battles her self-restraints and discovers her passion.
Stormy stories
Because of a bad storm, the power went out, and my friends and I told ghost stories to each other. It was one story that warped my young, naive perception of class and wealth.
Baby Chick
When my sister left for college, she left behind a learning experience for me, one that resulted in a flock of lifelong companions.
Adult Adolescent in Limbo
Shortly after their admittance to the NYU Langone hospital for what began as unexplained dizziness, Dom turns 18, and they are confronted by reality cloaked in black fur.
To Be Normal
Throughout my childhood, I noticed differences between my friends and myself—their experiences, senses of home, family structures. I desired normalcy, yet my culture, my family and I… we thrived in the differences.
Time to Let Go
A piece about letting go of an unhealthy friendship.
Ambiguity
I wrote this essay for my colleges. I wanted to express my flexibility and versatility as a person, which I owe to my upbringing and changes I’ve underwent.
Layers of Art & Me
Family expectations. Fear. Uncertainty. Some of the many negative thoughts that flow in a teenager’s mind. Cue art, a community, a tool, and a coping mechanism that changed a girl’s life.
The Art Kid Who Hated Art
A high school junior relearns their love of art.
A Guide to Telling the Tale of Two Cities
I’ve written a scholarship essay showing how I’d bring a diverse perspective to NYU. I’ve shared my experiences growing up in Jamaica and America, my love of sharing knowledge and my love of writing.
Happy Days Are Here Again
In this personal statement, I reflect on how suffering alters the way we see the people around us, and how that phenomenon ended up playing a big part in my life.
Superiority, Schmuperiority
What identities do you perform in your day-to-day life and how have they changed over time? How can you care for others as they perform their identities with honesty?