time Tag

There is no sensation quite like the anticipation of imminent departure. I remember my final week at home before returning to college, each morning awaking next to friends I cared about deeply. It would be 7am, the sunlight freckled across our statuesque faces—our arms in legs entangled in a silent refusal to move and an unspoken plea to stay. Then, the sudden jolt of our rainforest alarms, the slam on the 15-minute snooze. The lethargic, reluctant roll over to friends on each side—groggily, but oh, so acutely, understanding that ourRead More

I just completed my freshman year at the University of Michigan. It was turbulent, to say the least. Not in the sense that scores of dramatic events kept happening to me, but that my emotions had never gone through such a tumultuous course before. Adjusting was difficult, to say the least. I go to a public university in a state other than my own. A school with 30,000 high-achieving students. Many people came to school with high school friends, extended family members, or roommates they had chosen. My friend groupRead More

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. He has been hailed by other basketball legends as one of – if not the – greatest players in NBA history. He’s a great man with too many accomplishments to list. Let’s just mention briefly that he perfected the skyhook… enough said – he’s awesome. Currently, he works in the Los Angeles Lakers organization and has previously worked for both the Clippers and SuperSonics. In the aftermath of the Donald Sterling situation, TIME put out Kareem’s reaction and these are his mainRead More