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Online Education Revolution
Recently, technology has been coming under heavy fire for breeding the “millennial” – always on their phone checking Snap-this or Face-that, too heavily involved with social media to go out and actually be social. The internet is by far the most effective means of...
Strong Support Network
If you’ve ever had a mentor or have been a mentor yourself, odds are that you were able to get some sort of benefit from the experience. In some of my past blog post, I mentioned a program that I became a part of during my first year in college. As a member of the...
Cumbias in College
Music was never as important to me as it has been for the past two and a half years since I started my journey here at Pomona. Months after the August that I arrived, I started to miss, almost immediately, the sound of the accordion playing underneath melodramatic...
Earning a PhD: Si Se Puede!!
I am blessed to have been chosen to be part of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, a program my college recently joined, which is meant to diversify academia by increasing the number of professors from marginalized identities(especially people of color). As a...
Be Yourself …but on paper
Personal statements are meant to be personal…but it’s harder to seem authentic when you’re thinking is biased towards pleasing a top choice institution or maybe a second best. Personal statements are a way to advertise yourself, really. Maybe thinking of an ad you’ve...
My Beloved Peer Mentor–How I Miss Him
As I arrived to college, just as I was in the car with all my junk, I got a call from my assigned peer mentor. His name is Ashani. He greeted me, let me know where my key was, and then where my residence hall was. He is a special person and had an answer to most of my...
Letters of Recommendation; finding the best recommenders
Letters of recommendation, as you may know, have many implications. Among those are scholarships, job references, and in the college application process. A good place to start when considering a person who can write a letter of recommendation for you is by thinking...
It's about to get personal….
Personal statements can be equal parts refreshing and terrifying because of its open-endedness. How can you POSSIBLY put your whole life and personality into two pages? That is something I remember struggling with when I was applying to colleges in high school, and...
Fears about applying to college
As an upperclassmen in college, it amazes me to think about the things I worried about going to college and the things I didn’t consider. Just last night one of my classmates from high school hit me up because his sister who’s a senior is interested in Boston College....
Why undocumented students should consider applying to private higher institutions?
I have always been afraid of failure. I guess all of us, or for the most part. I have re-told the story of how I re-applied to college, the first time was a complete fiasco, but it wasn’t because I had terrible grades, or recommendations, or any of that stuff. I just...