Chinatown at Night. Taken by Khachik Simonian As I walk into my favorite dim sum shop on Doyers street, I am greeted by a familiar waitress who I call “阿姨”, or “Aunty” in English. I am placed in my usual seat, the fourth table next to the window.…

For as long as I can remember, on the bathroom counter, right next to my dad’s hair gels and my mom’s perfumes, there has always been a white and pink bottle of something called “Fair and Lovely”. On the front of the bottle, a smiling fair-skinned girl stands…

taken by Amanda Leutmixay As children, we experienced tremendous joy and an intrinsic desire to acquire something as we stood in front of a shelf full of toys. It is a human instinct to satiate ourselves using any means, whether it be through receiving basic life necessities such…

In my senior year of high school, our summer assignment for AP English was to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster. The only thing I remember from that book was: Food=Communion. Doesn’t matter if there’s no Jesus in it. Food=Communion. The idea of…

taken by Shafkat Anowar from manoanow.org Mauna a Wākea, known as Hawaii’s highest mountain, is a dormant volcano located on indigenous land. Due to its location and height, a collection of universities and research institutes – including a multitude of CSU’s and UC’s – are seeking out the…

graphic by Kyla Worrell All the late night conversations we are guilty of as college students do not compare to the unspoken conversations we have with our thoughts…or the afterlife. Intentionally referencing witching hour with the time in our title, the “7 Nights of Halloween: Conversations at 3:33am”…