Handy Dandy…PLANNER!

by Seanna Leath

                Last week in Neuropsychology, my professor was explaining the short and long term effects of stress on the body.  The hypo-something interacts with the adrenal-something-else and cortisol a.k.a the stress hormone, is released in the body.  Short-term,...

Tons of unfinished thoughts

by Duylam Nguyen-Ngo, The University of Virginia , '12

It’s been a long time; way too long. I’ve been thinking about, planning, and have written posts, but I haven’t followed through on execution. And, in large, this is what this post is about. There are times when things get put off. It’s...

Phantom Limb

by Seanna Leath

Imagine sitting at the kitchen table every night, head bent over bills, trying to make pennies stretch into places where dollar bills are necessary… …Working fifty hours a week behind a desk, then returning to work five more hours each night,...

College Choice and Homesickness

by Jenny Luong, Amherst College, '14

Everyone congratulates you when you get accepted somewhere. Yay! Great! You got in! Whoo-hoo! But no one tells you that now…you must CHOOSE. It might not be hard for some. I mean, community college…or Harvard. Or maybe you had a college you were already...

The Perfect Balance

by Shaun Devlin

One of my more recent posts described my decision to join a sorority, Pi Beta Phi. I absolutely LOVE my sorority and every single experience that comes with it, which of course includes being encouraged to embrace the social aspect of college, i.e. going out to...