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Catching Up…
Grrr… Bad news. Everytime I try doing a video blog … things go wrong. I’m talking laptop-basically-blowing-up-in-my-face wrong. So here’s a quick update and I promise to get a video in. Since the end of finals, things have been amazing. I finally got some sleep and...
Coming Full Circle
In high school (and most high schools across the nation), the academic calendar is organized around the semester system, that is, two big blocks of instruction time that usually run sixteen weeks. Twelve years of this almost made me forget that winter existed; my...
Reality Check
“But if I work full-time and cut down on my living expenses I can afford it, right?” As she pleads for me to understand all I do is shake my head and mouth the words “NO!” To give you some background I have a friend, for this post I will call her Ashley, who has set...
The Way Time Flies
As my semester is coming to an end there are a few things floating around in my mind. In just a few short months I will be starting my senior year. I can't believe how quickly it has snuck up on me. I feel as if I started college last week. High school felt like it...
Reflections of a College (eep) Senior
This is incredibly exciting, but scary- In September I’m entering my last year of college! There have been tons of things that happened junior year- I’ve traveled (to New York, South Africa, Los Angeles, Nevada, New Orleans); I’ve developed meaningful friendships;...
Freshman Year
I thought once I went to college everything would be perfect. I figured I would be happy since I would be away from home, independent, and finally have all the privileges of a young adult. Although this was all true, I underestimated the amount of responsibility that...
Life Outside of Dartmouth
I am in Boston right now, interning at East Boston High School, helping a group of four students through their junior year and helping them get on the college path. For the first time in my life, I have the freedom to take ideas and implement them in any way that I...
Back in Action
After talking to Cara today, I had to take a moment and look back at the bio I first submitted to her almost two years ago, and I must say it definitely gave me a good laugh. I’m still attending Dartmouth College but I am nowhere near being a double major. I took...
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...
Gettin' the Scoop
This past weekend, a group of 40 prospective students were visiting Pomona’s campus. Last year, I was actually the intern who worked with the admissions office to coordinate activities for these weekends. I remember trying to put together a list of parties, student...