My name is Kristen Cherfilus and I’m 18 years old. I’m from Elmont, New York. I am currently a Freshman at City College. I enjoy photography, exploring new places, and listening to music. I am currently a psychology major on the road to becoming a Physician Assistant. I went with the Psychology route because it is fascinating learning about the function of the human mind and how certain things can affect the way we think, act, and overall determine our way of life. I also have an interest in helping others and giving advice. This interest sparked when I took …

New York City, “the city that never sleeps”, “the greatest city in the world”, “the Empire City”, a city so incredible, that living on east 72nd street on the Upper East wasn’t enough for Frank Sinatra, so he sang about it. The city so nice, they named it twice “NEW YORK, NEW YORK”! New York City is a world, if not a universe, all on it’s own. The tourist attraction of all tourist attractions. It’s on your bucket list even if you live in New York. I can say it was on mine. I was born in Queens, and live …

Lovesickness refers to a negative feeling from unreturned love, especially when someone is deeply in love with someone else. In discussions of lovesickness, one controversial issue has been whether failed or unrequited love can produce illness. Since ancient times, physicians believed that unreturned love could produce an illness of the mind and body. People can be prone to love sickness due to the over idealizations of a person. Literatures have shown they can also be affected psychologically and physiologically. Nikolai Gogol, the author of the story “The Nevsky Project” writes about love sickness and how it can actually be fatal …

In the essay, “The Brain in Love ”, Benedict Carey describes how biology determines matters of attraction and how the effect of love on the brain is almost like the effect of being on drugs. Carey uses different kinds of studies done on the effect of love on the brain to explain his point of view. Some may disagree with Carey and say that science can measure the full emotions that come with love, but from my point of view I agree with him. Benedict Carey shows different kinds of research done on what love does to the brain. Carey …

Based on the story “The Torrents Of Spring” and “The Nevsky Prospect”, Ivan Turgenev and Nikolali Gogol push the narrative of a negative appeal of lovesickness to further emphasize the ideology that love sickness can ultimately cause more harm than good. Lovesickness refers to an affliction that can produce negative feelings when deeply in love, during the absence of a loved one or when love is unrequited.  Valeria Sobol says “Lovesickness, a malady of the soul manifested in the body, thus was as much a medical as a literary concern at the time.” in her book Febris Erotica. In discussions …

Throughout my first semester in college, I have learned many resources that could be implemented in my upcoming college experience. At first like any other inexperienced college freshman, I had my doubts about whether or not I would be able to make it through this semester or college as a whole. I especially had my doubts on my writing abilities because I knew that I wasn’t really strong when it came to writing. Once I saw the course syllabus my anxiety levels started to increase more than usual. I knew that no matter how hard college would be I would …