by Asna Rizwan | Apr 24, 2023
On Friday last week, Muslims celebrated Eid Al Fitr, marking the end of a month-long endeavor to strengthen our faith, practice discipline, and exercise humility. In an earlier blog post (during COVID, I believe), I reflected on the challenge of fasting during Ramadan...
by Asna Rizwan | Feb 27, 2023
There’s a photo of me sitting in a stroller all bundled up with a fuzzy pink hat tied around my head, a yellow sweater, and some slip-on red shoes. My stroller stuck in the sand, the waves behind me and the pier framing the sunset are nothing compared to my...
by Asna Rizwan | Jan 30, 2023
Remember these? In November of 2016, Snapchat Inc. (now Snap Inc.) released their first generation of Spectacles and popped these cute vending machines (Snapbots) in many cities across the United States. These smart wearables, competing with Google Glasses also on the...
by Asna Rizwan | Nov 14, 2022
Choosing to run for a sorority exec position is a lot like entering a haunted house: those who have gone through the horror themselves will warn you of everything ahead, frighten you with their nightmarish stories, and advise you turn around while you can. But like...
by Asna Rizwan | Oct 31, 2022 |
My mother and I have a routine: at an unscheduled time every day, I would receive a phone call from my mother. If I sacrifice my sanity and answer, I am met with a 20 minute lecture on how I don’t call her enough, I don’t sleep enough and that I...
by Asna Rizwan | Oct 17, 2022 |
On March 3rd, 2020, I submitted three transfer applications. In May of that year, I was accepted to all three universities. A week before, two cops and a friendly woman stood outside the door to my freshman dorm room in Atherton, responding to a call they received...
by Asna Rizwan | Oct 3, 2022 |
I never really thought of myself as a quitter. For someone who’s hobby is discovering new hobbies, I’ve learned that persistence (just short of insanity) is necessary to the learning process, and mistakes are inevitable. When I stuck it out in AP US...
by Asna Rizwan | Dec 6, 2021 |
At some point in high school, one of my friends called me a “bad luck magnet,” and it stuck – among my family, at school, my friends. Everyone knew that wherever I went, bad luck seemed to follow. And I may just be frustrated and overwhelmed with...
by Asna Rizwan | Nov 15, 2021 |
Before starting the semester, something that really made me anxious about returning for the fall was not being able to readjust to life in State College. My second year at Penn State I had fallen out of touch with friends and relationships I worked so hard to build my...
by Asna Rizwan | Oct 25, 2021 |
I’m currently experiencing an ugly combination of Sunday Scaries and Post-Saturday Shock and already anticipating another chaotic Monday the night before. I watched an entire town go from pumped and ready to defeated and depressed as they headed home on a rainy...
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