Everyone gives me more or less the same reaction when I tell them my celebrity crush is Seth Rogen. I’m always met with faces of pure shock and disbelief, followed by a chorus of questioning as to why. If I’m really lucky, I get hysterical laughter. Seth Rogen doesn’t have a six-pack, and he’s far […]

One sleepy morning during my sophomore year of high school, my teacher posed a question to the class that has lingered in the back of my mind ever since: “Which are more valuable to society: the sciences or the arts?” I remember most of the kids in my class answered science without hesitation. I had […]

Interrupting our scene, my acting teacher put her hand on my shoulder and looked me in the eyes. Soft, yet affirmatively, she told me to “park politeness at the door.”   “Get out of your head,” she demanded. “Don’t think about your reaction and don’t manipulate your response; just express the feeling that comes naturally […]