Lysa Vola

Lysa & Long's Williams College Video Tour!

Hi Everyone, Fellow CSO blogger Long Dang and I got together this past weekend, to give you our version of a Williams College Campus Tour! Of course we honored CSO in our matching "I'm First" t-shirts. Many people asked us what these shirts meant during our tour, to...

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PREMEDS: Consider SMDEP!

This summer I participated in SMDEP (Summer Medical Dental Education Program) at Duke University School of Medicine. SMDEP is a free six week summer academic enrichment program for rising sophomore and junior college students who are interested in a career in medicine...

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Nobody's Perfect: Set Your Own Personal Limits

As president of my college's Peer Health organization, we decided to center our final campaign of the year around the myth of effortless perfection and how while college students might seem like they have it all together all the time...WE REALLY DON'T. THERE IS NO...

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The Struggle of Sophomore Year

My second year in college truly hit me about a month ago, when I realized that I had taken on way too many extracurricular activities, more science laboratory classes than I could handle, and that maybe a science major on a pre-med course track was not working out....

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You are not alone

In the words of Opportunity Scholar blogger Lysa Vola, a sophomore at Williams College, the Opportunity Scholarships show students that “you are not alone.” Watch Lysa’s video blog as she reflects on how her Opportunity Scholarship made her college education a...

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A New Year…A New Beginning

Hi Guys! So I hope you are all excited for your first year! I am finally posting my first video blog after being inspired by Jesse to do so, but bear with me on the quality of the video! Click here to view my new video blog! I hope to post video blogs more regularly...

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Eat, Sleep, Pack and Prepare

Wow! I can't believe that it's already July! This summer seems to be passing by even faster than freshman year. I remember last summer and the anticipation I felt while anxiously awaiting the last week of summer and the first week of college. This summer has been a...

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