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Recommend Me!
Recommend Me! Recommend me! Whether it's college or job applications, letters of recommendation are somehow always hard to come by. But it's important to keep in mind that there are plenty of people on whom you have made an impression, either knowingly or unknowingly....
Take advantage of every opportunity, wisely
When you begin your college journey, you will be tempted to partake in everything and anything happening on campus. Unfortunately, you are only granted 24 hours in a day. You simply can't fit each activity that you find interesting into your schedule, especially when...
Math is God? Whaaa?
In the midst of an intense Calc II assignment, I hear the words "soulless" and "math" brought up in a conversation in the dorm. My friend, who is a humanities major, is talking about what drove him away from the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)...
Impressions and Habits
Hey I’m First students! This is Carlton and today I want to talk to you all about habits and their connections to impressions. When we all think of the most important impression, the first impression. We also automatically assume first impressions only matter in the...
Myth or Pre-requisite.
College is the first time many first-years have absolute freedom. Not only are freshmen free from their parent’s curfews and mandated household chores, they are free to eat whatever they want, whenever they want. This newfound freedom from the dinner table often...
The Personal Statement: Your Experience, Your Story
As many of you are preparing to apply to colleges, you are revising your personal statement. Unlike your transcript, resume, and recommendations, your personal statement is the only opportunity you get to tell your story to colleges and explain why you deserve to be...
Your College Search: By the Numbers
This article is published in the 2014 I’m First Guide to College Your College Search: By the Numbers By Emily Anderer I was woefully uninformed when I began my college search. Living in Utah, I knew about most of the universities in my state but very little about...
The Unwelcomed and The Unexpected
About a month and a half ago, a day before I left for Brown, I was playing a nice, relaxing game of pickup soccer. My old teammates were about to leave for their colleges for the start of their soccer seasons; it would our last game together for the year. We set up...
#FirstGenOfficeHour Recap: College Admissions 101
On Thursday, October 2 we hosted a Twitter Office Hour with 29 of our College Partners. We continued our focus on beginning the college journey and helping first-gen students proudly proclaim, “I’m College Bound,” by learning about some key parts of the college...
Twitter Office Hour: College Admissions 101
Thursday, October 2nd at 7:00p.m. EST Join us for our monthly Twitter Office Hour. On the first Thursday of every month at 7:00pm EST, we’re inviting first-generation college students, those who aspire to be, and everyone who cares about first-gens to meet us on...