Happy New Year everyone! It's been a wonderful and challenging semester for me. I hope it's been all good for you. This semester...was a struggle. I didn't do as great as I thought I would academically. Organic chemistry completely and totally owned me. Great news: I...
There are so many kids, just like me, first in the family to go to college, looking for ways to afford it. Close friends of mine, who went to the same school as I did, came from low-income families, got into the same schools that I did, attended college and dropped...
This Thanksgiving, I‘d like to thank Mr. Turkey for allowing me to feast on his yummy turkey goodness. Honestly Mr. Turkey, without you, Turkey day wouldn’t be Turkey day. Yessiree. Thank you for being so well-muscled and eating well while you were growing up, I...
“Yeah, I’m going to double major and do Black studies and Chemistry, since I love both and I can’t seem to choose,” a friend tells me. “I’m going to have to take five classes, so I’m going to be busy all of next semester… So Jenny, I hear you’re going to major in...
To all you college freshmen: GOOD JOB! To all the high school seniors: GOOD LUCK! College is definitely something to look forward to. The freshmen already in school probably know what I'm talking about. New people, new places, more friends and more exploration....
What happened to the rest of summer? I remember I got home for the break, and next thing you know, I'm leaving again. Okay, so maybe it wasn't that fast, but I just got used to living at home. It didn't feel any different, coming back and reliving the arguments with...
You come to realize after you start packing your stuff...that you have a load of stuff that you deemed necessary but ended up sitting in the corner of your dorm room collecting dust. Oh yeah. Those trinkets from back home, for example, a bottle of colored sand with a...
I'm not usually a crier. I don't like people seeing me cry. It's just not me, you know? I mean, I cried when Ash died in Pokemon: The First Movie, but it wasn't the same as having your eyes water in the computer lab with strangers all around as you read the rejection...
Time just seems to run away from me. There are never enough hours in a day to do the things I want to do. Can't take a nap. Can't go to the movies. Can't go read a book for leisure because I'll definitely end up reading it instead of the books I need for class. And...
Everyone congratulates you when you get accepted somewhere. Yay! Great! You got in! Whoo-hoo! But no one tells you that now...you must CHOOSE. It might not be hard for some. I mean, community college...or Harvard. Or maybe you had a college you were already set...