by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Issue, Winter 2024
Wake up. School. Work. Sleep. Repeat. This was the relentless cycle that defined my last years of high school. Days blurred into weeks, weeks into months, and before anyone realized, a year had passed in a haze of routine. But as graduation loomed on the horizon,... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Issue, Winter 2024, Winter 2024 Featured
In the world of neuroscience, where many have sought to understand the complex behaviors and disorders of the brain, La Sierra University’s Honors Program takes pride in alumni Daniel Bazan. I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Bazan about his pathway in... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Issue, Winter 2024, Winter 2024 Featured
Drowning In My Singularity Far within the depths of my digital gallery of life, is a video from what feels like eons ago. Just shy of two minutes, the grainy footage and bright colors ring brightly with radiant laughter as my mother gently endeavored to rein in my... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Issue, Winter 2024, Winter 2024 Featured
During this winter quarter, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and speak with Dr. David Kendall, one of the professors within La Sierra University’s music department. Kendall recently published his book, “The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination,” and,... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Issue, Winter 2024
John Banta, Class of 2026: Neuroscience/Pre-medicine Podcasts have been a part of my routine for three years now, though my listening habits have changed throughout. I first started listening to podcasts senior year of high school. Being homeschooled up to this point,... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Issue, Winter 2024
I thought I was dreaming when I saw Hadassah at the Kuala Lumpur airport. What felt like hundreds of (in all likelihood it was probably a dozen) women with a Hadassah-like haircut had walked past me in my nine-hour layover from Kerala, India, raising and subsequently...