If we can understand our social media behavior, we might be able to learn a key social lesson from the pandemic and improve our well-being in the long run. To understand why social media take away from our social needs, it’s important to understand smartphone addiction...
Switching from plastic to metal straws just doesn’t feel like enough. However, anti-consumption presents a third option: Don’t buy straws at all. Anti-consumption isn’t contingent on top-down action from for-profit companies but takes advantage of the natural consumer power in the market...
My friends and I talk all the time about how much we hate Snapchat, or how we’re sick of Instagram. The truth is, these platforms can shape our behavior in ways that contribute negatively to mental health. And it can be really hard to stop using them, even if we understand the consequences...
In 2025, Megan received the Vivian Nellis Memorial Prize, awarded by the creative writing faculty of The George Washington University for a student who shows excellence in the discipline.
Of her memoir in-progress:
"Hiding places are sparse in this first-person, present-tense memoir, which hurtles readers through a bewildering series of events that finally leads to a long COVID diagnosis. In her a
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