New Day- I'm First

Well, here we go—dorm cozy with the excessive, seemingly important stuff I could barely fit into my car, parents presumably sniffling on the way back home, faces of students that are unfamiliar; college has begun. For the past year, this very experience has consumed...

Why You Should Shop (Collegiate Edition!)

The start of the fall semester is always hectic. You might be adjusting to new dorms and living spaces, or taking a class in a building you’ve never even heard of before and having to re-orient yourself around campus. First-year students are dealing with an...

Opportunity Knocks: Open House, Fly-in & Visit Programs

Click here to view the September Special Edition Opportunity Knocks newsletter featuring Open House, Fly-in & Visit opportunities at: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Students Exploring & Embracing Diversity (SEED) Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA,...

Having fun in BC

Even though I just entered my first semester at Boston College, I spent mostly all of my summer on campus. I got into Boston College under a conditional award through a six week summer program called Options Through Education, or OTE for short. I spent my summer...

Cheers to a New Year!

Today is September 6th, 2014 and I have officially been living on the Boston University campus for a full week. For those of you who don’t know, I am a transfer student here at BU who started off at a community college in Southern California. As you can imagine, my...