SEEING THE CITY: 2025

I do not have many unique stories regarding my hometown, Laixi, to tell. I grew up in a semi-rural, mid-sized town, Laixi, in Shandong...

Stamford Connecticut Early on I lived in one of the few urban areas in Connecticut. Stamford, Connecticut was not a pretty place in the...

Ottawa, Ontario is the place that I grew up and although I have lived in other provinces and now Ithaca, Ottawa will always be the place...

I grew up in a military family, constantly moving from one place to the next. A few years ago, my father was stationed in Quantico,...

Tall, dark, and mysterious- always enchanting her next victim. She is unlike any other. Luring in people from all walks of life with her...

City skyline from Route 17 South in Ramsey, NJ (Fall 2022) I'm from a small suburban town in New Jersey about 20 minutes away from New...

Toronto, Ontario. A place I was lucky enough to call home for over 5 years and a place that is now just over an hour away from my home....

The smell of fresh brew whenever I step off of the airbridge at YVR. The forever crystal blue skyline and temperate shores. The mild rain...

I live in Redwood City, a suburb roughly 30 minutes by car from San Francisco. Like many other residents of the Bay Area’s suburban...

Walking down the streets to Ginza, I stumbled upon a little temple on the side of the road. This isn’t my usual path, but I felt a...

Since coming to Cornell, I've come to realize how much living in Brooklyn has shaped me. I can't stop myself from walking twice as fast...

By: John Raimonda Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Commonly dubbed the Forgotten Borough, Staten Island is...

Menlo Park is a peaceful, walkable suburb about an hour south of San Francisco that borders Stanford. I have lived there my whole life,...

Everywhere I see greatness. Everywhere I see muscular structures piercing the sky, underground monsters zigzagging, roaring, people...

I come from a farming family. All I have ever known is agriculture. Both of my parents are fourth-generation farmers. I was raised to...

Did you know you can miss a place as much as you miss a person? Occasionally, on a quiet day in Ithaca or New Jersey, my heart is...

Most people see Morocco as being a boring desert nation with one big city named after the movie "Casablanca." And even from the most...

I had been living in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China for the past eighteen years. However, the two only Nanjing districts that I am familiar with...

As a child, the one thing I associated with the trips I had to Mumbai was the battle I had with the squat toilet in my grandparents’...

I was born in what is known as the city that "Never Sleeps”. To tourists it is a wonderful place with many locations to socialize, eat...