by I'm First Administrator | May 19, 2017
This article was originally published on Big Future. The PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 measure the knowledge and skills you’ve developed in reading, writing and language, and math. Students in 10th and 11th grade can take the new PSAT/NMSQT for the first time in...
by Padah Vang, Colorado College, '19 | May 11, 2017
During Colorado College’s Admitted Student Open House, an admitted student who I was playing ping pong with asked me, “If you don’t make friends during your first week of college, are you doomed?” I looked confusedly at her and thought to myself why would you be...
by Benjamin Hoertnagl-Pereira, Johns Hopkins University , '18 | May 11, 2017
The years of my childhood were shaped by the experience of watching my parents work. Both came to America as young adults, my father from Portugal and my mother from Austria. Here, with tenacity, grit, and humility, they built a life for themselves and for our family....
by Adriana Gonzalez, Pomona College | May 11, 2017
More than halfway through my study abroad experience in Brazil and the lessons I have learned up until now are too plentiful to recount. I feel as though I arrived at the airport just last week, although the fact that I recognize street signs and know how to speak...
by Andrea Haerther, University of Houston, '19 | May 9, 2017
School is almost over which means summer will finally be here! This semester has been incredibly hard so I am actually counting down the days until I’m free. The classes I took this semester had me thinking about when I was in high school and would talk to the...
