by Dallas Simms, The University of Virginia , '17 | August 22, 2016
It’s probably just some phony call about winning a fake trip to Florida. I’ll let it go to voicemail. I hit play to half-listen to what I thought would be a robot speaking. Oh how wrong I was…Turns out, the voicemail was to inform me that my apartment’s water heater...
by Danica Drezner, Boston University , '17 | August 22, 2016
Throughout my final summer as an undergraduate student I have found that summer is no longer what it once was. While in high school my friends and I spent our days finding ways to get in trouble and would laugh about it after during our ritual sleepovers. Life was...
by Andrea Haerther, University of Houston, '19 | August 22, 2016
Summer is over and the Fall semester is already here. It feels like I just finished the second semester of my freshman year; I blinked and summer was over. This summer I was able to take part in an internship with my high school by working at their headquarters. It...
by Megan Cooke, Whitman College, '19 | August 22, 2016
Summer’s wrapping up and on comes the STRESS. What I’ve learned from this summer is a very important lesson, that I feel was more-or-less common sense, is to put special towards financial aid and scholarship deadlines and any outside funding you’re...
by Gabriel Reyes, Brown University , '17 | August 22, 2016
I remember when I was in elementary school I had this tendency to not follow instructions. My teachers viewed it as a act of rebellion and early signs of delinquency; I thought it was harmless, as I was merely synthesizing the main objective of my endeavor and...