Teen Ink Magazine, April 2010 Edition
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Articles from this Issue
College Guide
College ArticlesAcing Your SAT Essay 
College ArticlesFirst Day
College ArticlesHitting "Submit"
College ArticlesI Want to Be An Auror By Emily D., Attleboro, MA
College EssaysA Tea Party At Two
College EssaysBlue Doors and Nose Rings
College EssaysMy Crescendo
College EssaysWhat's War Got To Do With It?
College ArticlesFirst Day
College ArticlesHitting "Submit"
College ArticlesI Want to Be An Auror By Emily D., Attleboro, MA
College EssaysA Tea Party At Two
College EssaysBlue Doors and Nose Rings
College EssaysMy Crescendo
College EssaysWhat's War Got To Do With It?
Fiction
Brothers, Calendars, and Lies 
Deadline By Rachel C., Elkins, WV
Leah
Ms. Burnette By Emily K., Sudbury, MA
Deadline By Rachel C., Elkins, WV
Leah
Ms. Burnette By Emily K., Sudbury, MA
Hot Topics
Community ServiceMy Epiphany
Community ServiceSeeing Clearly By Emily M., Charlotte, NC
Community ServiceThe Tree in the Room By Erica C., Irvine, CA
EnvironmentThe Polar Bear Question
Letters to the EditorA Chance for a Fairy Tale
Letters to the EditorDefining Femininity By Elizabeth S., Hemet, CA
Letters to the EditorExtra Obstacles
Letters to the EditorHe Was Only Three By Alana R., Jacksonville, FL
Letters to the EditorNevermind
Letters to the EditorRelating to Teens By Courtney C., Nashua, NH
Letters to the EditorReturn Policy By Alan R., Phoenix, AZ
Letters to the EditorWhy I Traded My Boyfriend for a Fish
Community ServiceSeeing Clearly By Emily M., Charlotte, NC
Community ServiceThe Tree in the Room By Erica C., Irvine, CA
EnvironmentThe Polar Bear Question
Letters to the EditorA Chance for a Fairy Tale
Letters to the EditorDefining Femininity By Elizabeth S., Hemet, CA
Letters to the EditorExtra Obstacles
Letters to the EditorHe Was Only Three By Alana R., Jacksonville, FL
Letters to the EditorNevermind
Letters to the EditorRelating to Teens By Courtney C., Nashua, NH
Letters to the EditorReturn Policy By Alan R., Phoenix, AZ
Letters to the EditorWhy I Traded My Boyfriend for a Fish
Nonfiction
Chris's Saxophone 
Life to the Fullest By Blaire L., Palatine, IL
Educator of the YearBarb Fassbender, Guidance Counselor
Educator of the YearPhyllis McPherson, Librarian By Lexy H., Cleburne, TX
HeroesBrother Billy M.
HeroesBurn Victim Kimberly Holt
HeroesGrandmother Bettina B.
HeroesJust Add Water By Shiyi Z., Peachtree City, GA
MemoirAnswering Whispered Questions
MemoirGod Knows
MemoirLetter to a Future Date
Personal ExperienceFrosty
Personal ExperienceSelf-Image and Mexican Mole
Personal ExperienceThe "Hmm" Sound
Personal ExperienceTop of the World
Personal ExperienceTry, Try Again By Adam D., houston, TX
Personal ExperienceYellow House
SportsRacing a Sub-Six By Elaine R., MPLS, MN
Travel & CultureCultural Identity Through My Name(s) By Dongeun (Jane) S., Davis, CA
Travel & CultureJe t'aime ... Vive! By Kleo B., Chicago, IL
Travel & CultureMidwest
Travel & CultureTales From an Irish Ghetto
Life to the Fullest By Blaire L., Palatine, IL
Educator of the YearBarb Fassbender, Guidance Counselor
Educator of the YearPhyllis McPherson, Librarian By Lexy H., Cleburne, TX
HeroesBrother Billy M.
HeroesBurn Victim Kimberly Holt
HeroesGrandmother Bettina B.
HeroesJust Add Water By Shiyi Z., Peachtree City, GA
MemoirAnswering Whispered Questions
MemoirGod Knows
MemoirLetter to a Future Date
Personal ExperienceFrosty
Personal ExperienceSelf-Image and Mexican Mole
Personal ExperienceThe "Hmm" Sound
Personal ExperienceTop of the World
Personal ExperienceTry, Try Again By Adam D., houston, TX
Personal ExperienceYellow House
SportsRacing a Sub-Six By Elaine R., MPLS, MN
Travel & CultureCultural Identity Through My Name(s) By Dongeun (Jane) S., Davis, CA
Travel & CultureJe t'aime ... Vive! By Kleo B., Chicago, IL
Travel & CultureMidwest
Travel & CultureTales From an Irish Ghetto
Opinion
The Science of Bias
Conformity/Nonconformity By Ben D., Wethersfield, CT
Football: Time for a Change By Patrick K., Franklin, MA
Conformity/Nonconformity By Ben D., Wethersfield, CT
Football: Time for a Change By Patrick K., Franklin, MA
Reviews
Book ReviewsAll Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald By Sequoia D., Wrentham, MA
Book ReviewsHunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Book ReviewsRunning With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Book ReviewsThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Book ReviewsThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd By Claire S., Wyckoff, NJ
Book ReviewsTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Movie ReviewsParanormal Activity By Joey C., Phoenix, AZ
Movie ReviewsThe Pirate By Cori Z., Sun City, AZ
Movie ReviewsThis Is It
Music ReviewsAlice in Chains - "Facelift"
Music ReviewsBreaking Benjamin - "Dear Agony" By Robert P., Idyllwild, CA
Music ReviewsJulian Casablancas - "Phrazes for the Young"
Music ReviewsJustin Bieber - "My World"
Music ReviewsKasabian Live at O2 Academy
TV show reviewsLost By Stephanie H., Wyckoff, NJ
Book ReviewsHunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Book ReviewsRunning With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Book ReviewsThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Book ReviewsThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd By Claire S., Wyckoff, NJ
Book ReviewsTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Movie ReviewsParanormal Activity By Joey C., Phoenix, AZ
Movie ReviewsThe Pirate By Cori Z., Sun City, AZ
Movie ReviewsThis Is It
Music ReviewsAlice in Chains - "Facelift"
Music ReviewsBreaking Benjamin - "Dear Agony" By Robert P., Idyllwild, CA
Music ReviewsJulian Casablancas - "Phrazes for the Young"
Music ReviewsJustin Bieber - "My World"
Music ReviewsKasabian Live at O2 Academy
TV show reviewsLost By Stephanie H., Wyckoff, NJ
Art / Photo
A World That Goes On Forever 
Alex Gaskarth By Jenna R., Bethesda, MD
Amore
Autumn Laugh
Bayou Love
Bone Yard
Coming Home
Contrast By Emma J., tuck, GA
Dive In
Dream On
Dream Sequence
Father Time
Fields.
her words
Hidden
Hidden
Identity
Indecision
Juvenescence
King Of The Air By Jordan M., Lubbock, TX
Memoir: Glitter
Milkdrop By Katie T., Fox River Grove, IL
Old letters now sent
Peaceful Trail
Polar Beauty
Puppy Love & Bubblegum
Ranger
Red Rows
Redemption
ridin' AK
Rock N' Roll
Rockstar
Self Portrait
She Who Listens By Anna Y., Hernando, MS
Sisters
Spilling of Life
Spontaneous and Robust
sublime
Surreal Procrastination
Tea By Tina S., Monmouth Junction, NJ
Torn Apart By Emotion By Erica P., Wolfforth, TX
Touch / Sky
What a night
Whatcha doinnn?
You Color My World
_flashback
Alex Gaskarth By Jenna R., Bethesda, MD
Amore
Autumn Laugh
Bayou Love
Bone Yard
Coming Home
Contrast By Emma J., tuck, GA
Dive In
Dream On
Dream Sequence
Father Time
Fields.
her words
Hidden
Hidden
Identity
Indecision
Juvenescence
King Of The Air By Jordan M., Lubbock, TX
Memoir: Glitter
Milkdrop By Katie T., Fox River Grove, IL
Old letters now sent
Peaceful Trail
Polar Beauty
Puppy Love & Bubblegum
Ranger
Red Rows
Redemption
ridin' AK
Rock N' Roll
Rockstar
Self Portrait
She Who Listens By Anna Y., Hernando, MS
Sisters
Spilling of Life
Spontaneous and Robust
sublime
Surreal Procrastination
Tea By Tina S., Monmouth Junction, NJ
Torn Apart By Emotion By Erica P., Wolfforth, TX
Touch / Sky
What a night
Whatcha doinnn?
You Color My World
_flashback
Poetry
Alone in Anger 
Cemetary at Sunset By Raven D., Bloomsburg, PA
Color
Darfur
Failed Attempt
Good Night
Head of the Law
How About Them Slow Walkers? By Lauren M., Glen Ellyn, IL
Hypothetical Conversations with the Metaphor of a Boy
I Wear The Scars Of The World
Jocks
My Book Is My New Best Friend
My Sweet, Wizened Queen
Ode to Notebook
Oneiric
Peace
Pokerface By Anonymous, Narnia, United States
Stuck to My Shoe
The Zero at The Bone
A Collapsing Kaleidoscope, Magnified
A Note
A Poem for Gertrude
Afghan Eyes By Emily G., Highland Park, NJ
Angel of Time
anna
archaeology
articulation
Awaiting My Marriage By Mehul V., mwanza, Tanzania, United Republic of
Braving October
Cha Cha Cha By Michelle M., Las Vegas, NV
Chocolate Star By Nazish K., Elmont, NY
Church on Sunday
Clutter
cobble
Coffee Table Perplexity
comes, she comes
Crossing
Dog Thoughts One Mid-October Night
Dust By Isabelle L., Placitas, NM
Earthborn By Marissa F., Merrick, NY
Everywhere
Explore
Expressions
Ferris Wheel
Golden Gates
Growing Pains
Hamlet revisited By Anonymous, Attleboro, MA
Hand On Glass
Home (Again)
Honest
I Love New York
Ice cream
In These
In Your Eyes
Insanity
just a nightmare?
life loves you By Holly M., South Plainfield, NJ
Mad Girl's Poem
Mermaid Believer
Mirror Image
mother at her machine
Mover
My Friend, the Ice Cream Cone By Steven S., La Junta, CO
My Pistol-Packin' Grammy
Not a Poem
Once A Year
Our Hike at Edale
Our Own House
Our Story
Outer Space
Rent-a-Center Worry Free Guarantee
Right?
Rise Above
Robinson Crusoe By Slade G., Satellite Beach, FL
Savage Things
She's Gone
Skins
Spring
Stealing Beauty From a Larkspur
Strawberries
Surprise Departure
Swiss Cheese
The City
The Lamp
the pain
The War At My Heart's Door
The Way To Live
The World is a Crayon Box
To Me
Today
Today it Snowed in Georgia
untitled
Wendy the Wallflower
When Autumn Falls
You Were My First Friend
Zero By Sheila W., Lemont, IL
A Kiss
Saturdays
Sexy Toaster
Slow Dance In Haiku
Black Gold
The Chess-Playing Nihilist
Where Am I?
Cemetary at Sunset By Raven D., Bloomsburg, PA
Color
Darfur
Failed Attempt
Good Night
Head of the Law
How About Them Slow Walkers? By Lauren M., Glen Ellyn, IL
Hypothetical Conversations with the Metaphor of a Boy
I Wear The Scars Of The World
Jocks
My Book Is My New Best Friend
My Sweet, Wizened Queen
Ode to Notebook
Oneiric
Peace
Pokerface By Anonymous, Narnia, United States
Stuck to My Shoe
The Zero at The Bone
A Collapsing Kaleidoscope, Magnified
A Note
A Poem for Gertrude
Afghan Eyes By Emily G., Highland Park, NJ
Angel of Time
anna
archaeology
articulation
Awaiting My Marriage By Mehul V., mwanza, Tanzania, United Republic of
Braving October
Cha Cha Cha By Michelle M., Las Vegas, NV
Chocolate Star By Nazish K., Elmont, NY
Church on Sunday
Clutter
cobble
Coffee Table Perplexity
comes, she comes
Crossing
Dog Thoughts One Mid-October Night
Dust By Isabelle L., Placitas, NM
Earthborn By Marissa F., Merrick, NY
Everywhere
Explore
Expressions
Ferris Wheel
Golden Gates
Growing Pains
Hamlet revisited By Anonymous, Attleboro, MA
Hand On Glass
Home (Again)
Honest
I Love New York
Ice cream
In These
In Your Eyes
Insanity
just a nightmare?
life loves you By Holly M., South Plainfield, NJ
Mad Girl's Poem
Mermaid Believer
Mirror Image
mother at her machine
Mover
My Friend, the Ice Cream Cone By Steven S., La Junta, CO
My Pistol-Packin' Grammy
Not a Poem
Once A Year
Our Hike at Edale
Our Own House
Our Story
Outer Space
Rent-a-Center Worry Free Guarantee
Right?
Rise Above
Robinson Crusoe By Slade G., Satellite Beach, FL
Savage Things
She's Gone
Skins
Spring
Stealing Beauty From a Larkspur
Strawberries
Surprise Departure
Swiss Cheese
The City
The Lamp
the pain
The War At My Heart's Door
The Way To Live
The World is a Crayon Box
To Me
Today
Today it Snowed in Georgia
untitled
Wendy the Wallflower
When Autumn Falls
You Were My First Friend
Zero By Sheila W., Lemont, IL
A Kiss
Saturdays
Sexy Toaster
Slow Dance In Haiku
Black Gold
The Chess-Playing Nihilist
Where Am I?
