A couple months ago, I was asked to answer a writing prompt in my creative writing class. Each student were to come up with a short prompt to be randomized and passed on for another student to answer. When I received mine, I wore an uneasy smirk. My prompt was a bizarre- ahem… creative prompt. […]
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A couple days ago, I had a conversation with a friend. We started off about what we did over the weekend and then dove into a relevant topic regarding the practical lives we lived: how we spent our free time. As my friend listed all of her academic and hobbyist pursuits, I felt a feeling
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Think of a scenario where you put in all of your time and effort into learning a new skill or completing a self-directed project. You know how much hard work you put into the task, but others don’t. When people call you talented for how well you have progressed, you take it as a compliment.
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3 years ago, I began learning how to play the piano. After starting my piano journey, I noticed additional improvements in my mental capacity, such as in sequential memory and echoic memory. I can now remember sequences of notes after hearing it once and recreate the same sequence on the keyboard. If you would also
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All my good ideas come in bed. Blueprints for inventions, existential questions, and visions for the future all flood in while I stare at the ceiling, waiting for my brain to shut down and drift to sleep. If I wait for longer than an hour in bed, I boot up my computer, squint at the
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Written by Guest Writer shrimppie As a guest writer at Questiv, I want to share an idea. Have you ever wondered why your life has to be determined by others? For kids or teenagers: from needing signatures to having a bank account, you need a parent or guardian to rely on. Has it ever happened
“Hello?” “Its dark in here…” “I was made to create sounds…” Hasn’t that oboe been sitting in a closet for a year now? Don’t let it become another failed investment. Learn how to play an instrument at an accelerated pace with these 5 simple tricks! Familiarize Your Instrument Get used to your instrument. Learn about
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Imagine it’s Christmas morning. Your children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends and family gather around the Christmas tree, beaming with excitement to open their Christmas presents. They eagerly rip open your present and… its the same socks with jingle bells and reindeers on them that they have received for FIVE years in a row!
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