My Panama Trip

Here I am, almost finished with my first year of college as a first generation student and I am shocked with what I have accomplished. Last year I took a course called Power and Politics in America–a class full of seniors–and at the end of the course my...

Planning for Post-College Life and Fighting Senioritis

As graduation gets closer and closer, most seniors just really want to get done with everything and take a breather. I, for example, just want to lie in bed and re-watch that last episode of Game of Thrones. That ending was great, cathartic even, since I had really...

Learning Outside the Classroom, Adventures Abroad

Four months ago, I was learning how to cook in Cape Town, South Africa. From June to December last year, I interned and studied abroad at the University of Cape Town. When I got to my hostel in Cape Town, I was on my own (the first time since college) in an entirely...

Enjoy the Struggle

College certainly does provide it’s own pace of things. I thought I knew what stress felt like through out high school. Oh how wrong I was. College is extremely fast paced. On the one hand you have a whole year worth of one AP class squished into one semester. That’s...

How Studying Can be… Fun: A Plea to Those Onboard the Struggle Bus

“Who discovered the electron?” my brother asks as we study for our chemistry test. “All I remember is that it starts with a J, but it’s just a name and a word. How are we supposed to memorize the association if it means nothing to us?” He cleverly responds: “J.J...