by Adriana Gonzalez, Pomona College | February 28, 2018
February, the month of love, is almost over. For me, love and college do not tend to flow with each other in the same sentence. Complicated is a more accurate description of my relationship status with my college, and that’s not to say that I haven’t...
by Xavier Husser, Boston College, '18 | February 27, 2018
It’s funny looking back on my college experience that I didn’t choose to study finance because as a first generation student you take a crash course in personal finance on a daily basis. When I thought about budgeting for college in high school, the only things I...
by Santiago Montoya, Brandeis University , '19 | February 23, 2018
The wind is intense, it dries my skin, especially my fingers, they have been exposed to the cold simply being occupied carrying some of my groceries—a different type of groceries, though. I feel that it has not been a month of being abroad, yet and I have changed so...
by Adriana Gonzalez, Pomona College | February 13, 2018
This is my last semester of college. I do not know how I managed to survive almost four years. Last night, as I laid in bed snuggled next to my friends in an attempt to wind down after a long day, one half-jokingly muttered, “I don’t know why I’m...
by Padah Vang, Colorado College, '19 | February 13, 2018
I am in a war and on many battlefields. Who am I fighting against? What am I fighting for? How am I going to fight? Why am I fighting? These are the questions that I consistently ask myself yet, I still do not know the answers. However, there is one answer that I...