Deep Thoughts over Turkey
For the first time since I’ve left for college, I’ll be going home for Thanksgiving this year. The past two years I was working sporting…
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Week 1: YouTube Live Chat with College Partners
This week, I'm First! and Strive for College hosted the first of a month long series of YouTube Live Chats with Colleges! Week 1 featured…
Better Call … Saul?
Building relationships in your new college should be a super high priority. I attended fly-in programs the college offered and it helped me build connections…
Things All College Students Do
I’ve seen a lot of articles about “Things X Kind of People Do” or an iteration that defines people based on certain characteristics. Like this…
Meet, connect, reach out and build a support network!
Meet, connect, reach out and build a support network! One of the things I will take away from my undergrad experience is the importance of…
College Is A 4-Year-Long Balancing Act For First-Generation Students
We're excited to have an I'm First! Blogger and first-generation college graduate featured on NPR! This article was originally published on November 2, 2016 on…
“So, what has been your favorite college experience thus far?”
I was crushing the interview, articulating my answers better than I had expected. I talked all about my hometown, my majors, my summer jobs and…
Love Letters to Colleges
It's constantly said that colleges look more than just your grades, which is often true. There's many factors that come into play as you're applying…
Advice on Letters of Recommendation
Letters of recommendation are a vital component of an application given that they reflect on the kind of person you are from the perspective of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…