A few years ago, my friends and I talked excitedly about heading off to college in August—ready to meet new people and take great classes and be college students. We talked about the schools we’d chosen to attend and how amazing it would be to leave home and be out on...
Check out the video blog I took over Fall Break for Center for Student Opportunity. :]
This college experience has finally helped me figure out what I’d like to be when I grow up…a kid. Actually, that’s not true at all, but I have heard that or something very similar from many of the students around me. This summer, I forgot to take a break, and...
Last summer, I found love and excitement amidst 90+ kids in a youth program that focused on high achieving first-generation, low income students who wanted and deserved to attend college after graduating high school. My heart’s still with the program, but this...
I got my first camera when I was around twelve, but I’d been fascinated with photography and “capturing life” long before unwrapping that Kodak Easy Share. My mom threatened to stop making Walgreens' trips to develop the photos if I didn’t stop snapping shots of...
There are motorcycles and vacation spots and hair dye for mid-life crises, but manufacturers and travel agents failed to make an outlet for mid-college crises. I looked on Amazon and eBay to no avail. There wasn’t a thing to help the sleepless nights, worried days,...
Last week in Neuropsychology, my professor was explaining the short and long term effects of stress on the body. The hypo-something interacts with the adrenal-something-else and cortisol a.k.a the stress hormone, is released in the body. Short-term,...
Imagine sitting at the kitchen table every night, head bent over bills, trying to make pennies stretch into places where dollar bills are necessary… …Working fifty hours a week behind a desk, then returning to work five more hours each night,...
This is a love story. The happy ending hasn’t occurred yet, but we’re in the middle of the honeymoon stage. A few fights have occurred, but we’ve managed to overcome the issues & have positive expectations for the future. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’d like...
1.2 million dollars. The amount reverberated through the arena amid thunderous claps and cheers. Our high school principal had just announced the approximate amount of accepted scholarship money that my 2009 class had procured for college. ...