Understanding Your Financial Aid Award Letters

You’ve completed your college applications and submitted your FAFSA to all of your schools and have even been accepted to a few. That’s awesome! Now is the time to focus on understanding and comparing your financial aid award letters. Join us on Thursday,...

Spring Break at the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference

I had the opportunity to start off the Spring Break of my junior year at the University of Miami where the Clinton Global Initiative University conference was hosted! I met so many amazing first-generation students from around the country who were showing off their...

Don't Get Mad Bro

There are not a lot of breaks from school during the second semester. First semester was full of breaks and fun holidays, but the big break during second semester is spring break. Everyone looks forward to it, I know I did. The week before spring break is pretty...

Midterm Madness

It’s that time of the year again, and whether we like it or not, we have to try to survive this ‘Midterm Madness’. As a first year student, I have found to find college midterms very different than any I took in high school. In my point of view, I...

Midterms and Re-prioritizing

So I took my first round of junior- year midterms a couple of weeks ago (granted, there are only two so I don’t know why I wrote that sentence as if there were many more rounds of junior-year midterms to come.. Hahaa). But reflecting on that, I am realizing how...