No time for “I don’t care”
One of the most exciting days of my elementary school career was during early November in 2008 in my 1st grade teacher’s classroom. I understand how that may be considered oddly specific, but I remember […]
Articles by McKenzie Ward
A battle with a mirror
“Quarantine 15 is the new freshmen 15.” “Due to coronavirus, my summer body will be postponed until 2021.” “If you haven’t lost weight all quarantine, you can only blame yourself. There’s still time to make […]
A service older than the nation itself
As a kid, I remember standing on my tippy toes peering out the window of my great aunt’s living room in anticipation of the mail truck. It might be considered weird for the average 5-year-old […]
Scars naked to the human eye
“He’s mean to you because he likes you.” In grade school, and even before then I was taught that when a boy pulled at my pigtails or made mean jokes about me it was because […]
Your vacation can wait
As the threat of the coronavirus increases throughout the world, we have been desperately urged to practice social distancing in order to limit the spread of infection and flatten the curve. In doing my part, […]
The importance of voting in the presidential primaries
Next Tuesday, Mar. 3 is the Massachusetts Primary for the 2020 presidential election. Massachusetts will be one of the 14 states participating in super Tuesday – the day when the most states in the country […]
The importance of the birds and the bees
In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ranked Massachusetts as the state with the lowest birth rates among teenage girls ages 15 to 19. But just because teenage pregnancies may be falling, […]
More than just five stages
I sat in the cafeteria of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. over my January break when a tsunami of grief swallowed my family. News of my great Aunt Patty’s death poured through the cracks […]
Strive for a 5
During my four years in high school, I took five Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Advanced Placement is a program run by College Board, a non-profit organization that allows high school students to take college courses […]
What happens when we forget?
Twelve states. One would think that in the United States, there would be mandatory education about the Holocaust. But currently, there are only 12 states that require it. Massachusetts is not one. According to a […]