Monthly Archives: March 2014

When I was younger, I’d curl up on the couch in my living room with a book, usually a Harry Potter one I had read before, and disappear into its fictional world for hours at a time. Opening up a … Continue reading →

Daniel Weinfeld Picture a crowded library. Men, women, and children reading, writing, and learning in a respectful and quiet public environment. Today, chances are nearly everyone in the library is using a computer. Laptop owners are taking advantage of WIFI … Continue reading →

My relationship with reading has always been a complicated one. When I had just moved to the United States, I struggled to keep up with the reading assignments I was supposed to do for school, and reading became a kind … Continue reading →

At the beginning of every semester, college students struggle to buy their textbooks, and then throughout the semester, they struggle to look for ways to avoid reading them.  Reading through an assigned book, no matter it is purely scientific or … Continue reading →

When I first read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in elementary school, I became terrified of growing up; of becoming obsessed with figures, of only caring about money and economy and politics. How could I forget about the … Continue reading →

These are words. Words have meaning. We read and listen to understand the meaning of words. If we could skip this process entirely, would that be optimal? For example, imagine that the meaning of words could be transmitted telepathically from … Continue reading →

I have always been an avid reader.  And it wasn’t America’s education system that first had me reading. Since I can remember my mom was reading stories to me.  She tells me she even read to me when I was … Continue reading →

They say that knowledge is power. And they’re right. Knowledge IS power. It awakens the conscience and lets humans understand the world and the context they live in. Without knowledge, humans would not have the capacity to learn or capability … Continue reading →

College libraries are the homes to unopened books and sleep-deprived students.  My mom has always told me how back when she was in college she would have to go to the library and search through countless books in order to … Continue reading →

To put it bluntly, I was pretty nerdy in high school. I was not a nerd in the sense that I would dress up as Princess Leia for fun or had tape around the center of my glasses, I just … Continue reading →