By Olivia Schanafelt/El Inde This year was supposed to be a year of “lasts” and a year of maturing. Instead, it has turned into chaos, quickly. As a senior, I was excited to spend my time cherishing my last exam, my last homework assignment and most importantly, my last time being an immature young adult…
By Vianney Cardenas/El Inde Every day, around 6:19 a.m., I am woken up by the sound of a jump rope whipping the wooden floor of my small but comfortable home. My brother is jumping away in the living room as if no one is around or much less, asleep. I take a big sigh and…
By Allison Kallin/El Inde The student sits down in the cold, metal classroom chair facing the school resource officer and begins to cry about a high school drama between her and her friends. Feeling alone with no one to sit with at lunch, she chose to pay a visit to the SRO office. Although this…
By Logan Wallerstedt/El Inde During the fall of 2017, I was adamant about transferring back home to Tempe, Arizona, and attending Arizona State University. Something in Tucson was holding me back and I could never quite understand it — until now. I made the impulsive decision with our journalism advisor, Paloma Boykin, to graduate a…
By Meredith O’Neil/El Inde Thirty-one-year-old Scott Gooderham thought he was going to die. He had lost forty pounds and was still losing weight fast. He had been living for seven years with a disease that normally affects people much older than him. At 24, he had been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, an autoimmune disease similar…
