"I have so much time."

by Megan Cooke, Whitman College, '19

A tinge of irony in beginning this post. Originally, I was determined to submit the draft for this post in last Friday… then the weekend shenanigans came of the college scene. Before Friday, I was up to my neck in different tasks to do. Meetings, deadlines for...

Work before pleasure

by Samuel Hayes, Northern Arizona University , '17

Work before pleasure. I am currently in my junior year of college and it has been going great. When I was in High School I had a lot of weird perceptions of what college would be like and now that I am in college they were all wrong. When I was in High School, I...

Bouncing back from Senioritis

by Rolando Perez, Pitzer College, '19

Before I began college, I made a conscious decision to become better at managing my time. I’ll admit, senioritis hit me hard in my last couple months leading up to graduation. The amount of time I spent debating when and whether I should study at all was greater than...

From Student to Advisor: A First-Generation Student Story

by Ashley Jarvis

This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. I am a first-generation college student, and over the course of my life, that identifier has meant a variety of things to me. At first, it was a motivator; it drove me to be...