Let Your Geek Love Show
February, the month of love, is almost over. For me, love and college do not tend to flow with each other in the same sentence.…
Finance Advice: Balling on a budget
It’s funny looking back on my college experience that I didn’t choose to study finance because as a first generation student you take a crash…
The Internal Changes While Being Away from Home
The wind is intense, it dries my skin, especially my fingers, they have been exposed to the cold simply being occupied carrying some of my…
Moments of Weakness Worth Documenting: I’m A Senior Without A Compass
This is my last semester of college. I do not know how I managed to survive almost four years. Last night, as I laid in…
Here to fight.
I am in a war and on many battlefields. Who am I fighting against? What am I fighting for? How am I going to fight?…
A Break before the Storm
As the world crumbled below my feet, collapsing into itself and swallowing me whole, I grasped for fragments who I was. Name? Raquel, I think.…
Life Goals
Senior year is almost coming to an end! It’s been an amazing four years at the ‘ever better’ campus here in Rochester and can’t wait…
Staying Ahead of the Game
We are back and running in full swing with the spring semester. After a bit of a delay in the start of the semester due…
Textbook$$$
Greetings fellow readers, I write you to today in full disgust and outrage at the price of books, shipping, rushed shipping, required books, and the…
The New Year is Here
2018 is here and the Spring semester is in full swing! School has only been in session for one full week and I'm already waiting…
The Scary Hours of the Waiting Game
One of the most annoying things about being a senior in college or high school is having people constantly remind you that in a few…
What It Takes to Study Abroad
It has been an odd time the gap after one semester on campus and the following would be abroad. The in between is remaining at…
Happy New Year!
I've thought long and hard about what this New Year could bring advice wise. I'll be starting my second semester of my junior year.. so…
Winter Wonder
My favorite time of year is here and I am loving it! December has been a crazy month. I am currently taking a winter mini…
Not all who goes have a place to return to.
Not all who goes have a place to return to. Maybe that is what makes the holidays such a bitter-sweet time. At the end of…
Finishing Senior Year of High School Strong
The first half of my junior year in college at the University of Houston is over. Academically, this was one of my best semesters yet.…
A Much Needed Christmas Break
Yesterday, I got something for Christmas that I wanted this past semester which is quality time with my father back in New York City. I…
Holiday Blogging
Just made it past the first term of my third year. It is crazy how fast time passes. As I reflect on the time that…