Tales of Tenth Grade

As I compose the last blog post of my sophomore year (I hate to be cheesy, but it’s kinda surreal even just writing that), I’m at a loss of what to discuss. A majority of my blog posts this year (or, let’s be honest, ALL of my blog posts this year) have been rants, so I figured that maybe for this blog I should do something a little different. I’ve always loved writing poems, but I haven’t composed any in a while (aside from the recent English assignment, of course). So, for this blog post, I’ve decided to write a (very short) free verse poem inspired by the late hours I keep (which unintentionally began to derail into a poem about the stars whoops). Admittedly, it is not the longest of poems, nor is it the most eloquent, but nonetheless here it is (: celestial bodies i am one of the night  it is i who knows the moon,  i who embraces her coruscating light with the familiarity of an old friend i seek solace in the evanescent stars in their comforting glim...

On October 18, 2019, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conducted a space walk outside of the international space station. This isn't just any space walk though, they are the first all female pair to conduct one! The first women to ever go on a space walk was Russian cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya in 1984. 35 years later, the first all girl group went out. Only 12 U.S women have done a space walk since Savitskaya walked. It's crazy how long it has taken for an all girl group to finally go.  In a conference before their  walk, Meir said,"What we're doing now shows all the work that went in for the decades prior, all of the women that worked to get us to where we are today". Their walk shows how far women have come in past decades to gain equality, but Koch and Meir don't usually think about their roles in history, to them, they are just normal members of an efficient team. Because they don't focus on the part they've played in history, Meir said it's n...