Your Mental Health is Important: What If You are Depressed?

Something that I have been feeling this semester is the “-ritis,” something I call, or maybe heard from somebody, describing “abroad-ritis.” It is totally real since the next semester I am, hopefully, going abroad (I mention “hopefully” because I never take anything...

What do you plan to do?

What do you plan to do? I don’t know. I feel like this question has more weight by the year. What do I plan to do with my Sociology major? What do I plan to do after college? What do I plan to do with my life? I do not know. I’m only a 3rd year! No, I am a 3rd year...

College is Not High School: Perception vs. Reality

As a student in high school, I don’t think I realized how much of a different playing filed college would be. I definitely felt prepared to transition into college because I felt like I had a lot of support from my teachers, peers, and family. But you can’t really...

Managing YOU time!

Hey there readers! This week, I think it’s important to stress the amount of time i is needed to plan things for YOURSELF throughout the year. Right now, it’s about a month into the semester of my junior year. I’m taking two labs a week, a total of 8...

Perception versus Reality

I remember the first time I visited the University of Rochester. I was a senior in high school visiting several campuses; this one was my first out of state. A lot of things were going through my head. How is the campus going to look like? What programs do they offer?...

College: Perception vs Reality

As a college senior, I think it’s funny to look back at my perceptions of college as a high school  senior and match it to the reality I’ve been through the past few years. There wasn’t much dialogue in my household or middle school about college until I entered high...