I applied for scholarships during my senior year of high school and was rejected. I didn't understand why because I had a great resume, great grades, and great references for teachers. I couldn't ask my parents to help me because they don't know how scholarships work...
How is it already Week 10? It feels like this semester just started! It's about to be November and I don't know if I'm ready yet. In general, time flies, but when you are in college, semesters are a blink of an eye. Sometimes it feels like the blink of an eye is...
I always dread the week of Labor Day. You see, you leave for the summer, come back to school, and all the sudden you have another day off. Of course, our bodies aren't used to our routine schedules for school, so it's hard to return back on Tuesday. Especially me, my...
Today was my first day at my internship. I work under the Member Experience Director and I am a Member Experience Coordinator. I work for the University Club at Virginia Tech that is open to the VT community. Most of the members are alumni of VT or family members of...
Today, August 31st, is the day I begin writing this blog. This says a lot about how stressed I am already with the amount of school work and we are just got back to class! Okay, let me rewind.... I am a senior and this semester I am taking 3000 and 4000 level classes,...
When I first started applying to school, I never had a dream school or any particular career I was heading for. I did know that I wanted to attend college and become the first in my family to attend college. I started applying to a lot of different school. Some close...
High school was rough for me… My spring semester of senior year of high school looked something like this: On March 13 (on the exact day of my birthday, btw), our school district got an announcement that our school would close down for two weeks. Of course, once we...
As I am writing this blog to distract myself from the other 15 assignments due, I come to a realization that I have become a procrastinator. Yes. I admit it. College has made me a procrastinator. In high school, I was the student who always completed their homework...