Personal Narratives

Through vivid description, sensory detail, and reflective prose, these pieces explore the relationship between personal experience, discovery, and transformation.

Just Keep Swimming: My Odyssey Back Home

by Navipa Zaman

Image of city street through a rain dappled window.

The Odyssey of My Life

by Irene Bougatsos

Image of a page of Ruoqi (Rachel) Li journal.

Text in image reads:

3/12 Fri
Good morning

Recently I'm listening to the audio-book "The 7 habits of highly effective people". It's life-changing. I heard of this book a long time ago, but didn't pick it up. I thought it will be like very boring dogmas. telling you should do this should do that so that you'll be successful. It is not. This book is about transforming your mindset. To see things differently. think differently and react differently.

Oh! Also!
I went to the writing center with Alyssa yesterday. and we were working on one of the essays I wrote for my English class. Kat said it's very good and the recommend me to publish it to "Lexington Review" (our school's newspaper) When Alyssa read my essay she said "wow this is really good! No wonder she (Kat) wants this to be publish!"

I was so happy and overwhelmed. It means a lot to me. My writing skill reached another milestone. haha!

Unstuck: Becoming Fluent as a Bilingual Writer

by Ruoqi (Rachel) Li

My Epiphany

by Brian Lung

West Side Story

by Siddiq Mohamed

Owners and Inferiors: Influence of Nationalism on the Lives of Ethnic Minorities in the Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

by Alexanda Ten