I am SO HAPPY: Rookie Yearbook Four is out and the signing is this weekend! The positive things in my life are outweighing the negatives, and I’m surrounded by great people. I FEEL LIKE THE FUTURE IS MINE. —Briana

Ananda

At the beginning of the year, I was a girl who hated herself, someone who constantly thought the only way out would be through suicide, someone who calmed herself by carving in to her skin. I barely left the house and cried myself to sleep every night. I didn’t think I would ever get out of the black hole I was in. But, with the help of a multitude of things and people, I have come out the other side. Read More »

Thahabu

I have a tendency to make fun of myself and my troubles. It runs in the family, my dad doesn’t find anything funny in heavy situations, but my sister, aunts, cousins, grandma, pretty much my entire family, can turn a personal catastrophe into a comedy skit. It keeps us sane, if we couldn’t laugh how would we survive? Read More »