KKhanna's blog

The senior class in my high school outdrinks half the fraternities across America. They started young, around freshman or sophomore year. Facebook is fluttered with lovely, drunken snapshots of them; they hold beer pong tournaments every so often; the unofficial senior trip revolves solely around drinking. Most of these kids are pretty well off; not in the "Gossip Girl" sense, but still.  Read More »

Here about this? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/us/18beluga.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=beluga&...

Yep.

This story, while important, reminded be of that song that we were taught in a science lesson when I was little. You know the one, "Baby beluga in the deep blue sea/swims so wild, swims so free..."

Yeah, I get it. I am four years old. Moving on...  Read More »

Everyone in my class is too young to vote, but our teacher decided to direct us to www.glassbooth.com to see which candidate is our "best fit", so to speak. Imagine the surprise of many students when they found out that their ideas most related to Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney. "But I thought I was a Democrat/Republican...?"  Read More »

My AP Gov teacher lets us e-mail homework assignments to him in an effort to go paperless. It won't be counted as late, so long as he receives it by six o'clock that evening.  Read More »

I know I'm probably not alone in saying this - I'm nearly seventeen years old, and I've never had a boyfriend. There are tons of people who have never had a romantic relationship.

Now, consider this. How many people who have never had such a relationship, don't want one at all? Or at least, not yet.  Read More »

When I was younger, I wanted to attend the University of Oxford. Travel the world. Meet interesting people. Write a novel.  Read More »

I have two names - my school name and my home name. kuh-NEE-kuh is my school name and KUH-nee-kuh is my home name (both spelled Kanika). With each name is a different identity.  Read More »

With the recent revealing of a new citizenship test, I wondered: how many born U.S. citizens would pass the test?

If you're a few years removed from school, some questions may escape your memory. I mean, how many people remember what the Philadelphia Convention is after taking a history course several years before?  Read More »