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When I opened the packet last week and saw the idea of vertical farming, the first thing I thought of was minecraft. I’ve always thought of vertical farming as a great asset due to its vast applicability throughout the game. With vertical farms you always were provided so many benefits. I remember as a kid searching up youtube tutorials on how to make the highest efficiency and least amount of work for me. This concept of vertically built things was constantly implemented throughout the game for many purposes, and there were some clear parallels between the sources we read and the game.  In the game this was the way to maximize efficiency, and reduce transportation just like the real game, but it doesn’t reflect the major implications that come with it. Yet, ideas that can come from such games like minecraft can be the spark of innovation for such a complex concept that can push the future forward. Yes, while things like vertical farming do have their problems, but it is undeniable...

  A little while ago I was at a MUN conference when someone randomly came up to me. He started making small talk, but I could instantly feel the fake energy radiating off of him. Obviously, I had to match it,  as one of the biggest aspects of Model UN deals with having to suppress your real personality and appear friendly and connected to everyone. This fake conversation, which I thought would end normally, had an ending that was a first for me. He pulled out his phone, and I expected maybe what's your Instagram or let's make a group chat with people from the committee . Instead, he opened up the LinkedIn app, stuck his phone at me, and asked me to type in my LinkedIn. I couldn't help but break character and make a face when he asked. Regardless, he persisted, so I had to. My facial reaction From there, I watched him gallivant around to the rest of the committee and repeat the same process, collecting each person's LinkedIn like Pokémon. As Pinker states, language has ...

  My name means 'unparalleled' in Sanskrit. However, every single time I've met someone, the first time they try to type my name, it always goes the exact same way. 'Hey Advil  *Advik' My name, rather than its definition of unparalleled, became a parallel to a corporate pain relief medicine. Rather than staying unique, it became auto-corrected for most of my life as a headache cure. My parents chose the name for two reasons: first, to rhyme with my brother's name, Rishik, but also to keep ties to our roots through culture and language. Growing up, it often became a joke among my friends and me rather than something that was deep. Whenever someone saw a bottle of Advil at the store they would send a picture and go haha that's you. As a child of immigrants, the difficulties I've had with my name are much easier than most. Mine are comedic and short-term mistakes with the occasional struggling sub butchering my name. The very technology that is able to scan...

 Located between four enclosed walls from 7am to 2pm, students in the United States of America wake up every morning and fuel themselves with a mysterious potion, sknird ygrene . They come in all sorts of brightly colored metal cylinders painted with the most unnatural colors to be found in nature. Once poured out, they resemble the color of urine, yet students constantly keep drinking them with no remorse. Each potion is filled to the brim with chemicals that the drinkers themselves don't even know the names of. Mystical ingredients such as guarana and taurine comprise this drink of poisons, which is continued to be consumed all for a wake-up call — 200 mg of stimulants to keep the consumer awake, especially during the seasons of trials and terrors that plague the school year. At one point, the student will jitter from the sheer intensity of the potion's wake-up call, lose sleep, and feel uncontrollable. As consumption increases each day, so does the necessity of the daily p...

  "No one is as fragile as a woman but no one is fragile as a man" Ehrlich’s contrast between what a cowboy is physically seen and the vulnerability their jobs and roles truly require are what give them strength. Society’s interpretation of toughness over time has been misinterpreted into something people only look for on the outside. In reality, for people like cowboys, their strength comes from the vulnerability they hold with their animals. They sustain animals, care for them, and have had to watch young animals die. This amalgamation of physical strength and vulnerability work with each other to create a new kind of strength that is truly tough rather than a fake only strong version that people assume is true. Not only do they have to constantly nurture and care for living creatures, but they are the constant mercy of the weather. Even in the worst of storms or coldest of days, a cowboy will do what they must in order to sustain the lives of the animals who can’t protect ...

  Taking that first step into the committee, I was already unconsciously scanning  every delegate in the room, trying to scan who the best delegates would be. I was able to classify who they were by several factors: where they sat, how much they networked, and their overall vibe. Ms. Valentino I promise Noah and I are not copying each other, our topics are just very very similar.  The most shocking thing to me was how the whole committee of 320 members naturally adopted these labels and conformed to them, especially when it came to their overall vibe. The funniest to me was how the 6’6 tall guys were just able to naturally command and push all those in their bloc around without actually doing anything (no hate). When it came to deciding bloc leaders, everyone realized these types of delegates did not truly contribute that much to the paper, yet they all unanimously banded together to vote for them.  However, the biggest thing I took away was that rather than figh...