by Brianna Gavin | Jul 14, 2018 | #FirstGenOfficeHour Chats, FirstGenerationStudent.com Blogs, Hangouts, I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
College is a time where friends can either make or break the entire experience. It’s true that being first-generation can really make that even harder than the average student, because...
by Padah Vang | Mar 5, 2018 | I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
What do mental wellness and well-being mean? From the World Health Organization, they defined as “…a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope...
by Padah Vang | Feb 13, 2018 | I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
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? Why am I fighting? These are the questions that I consistently ask myself yet, I...
by Raquel Diaz | Feb 13, 2018 | I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
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. I was born in Fremont, I think. Or was it Alameda? Age?...
by Padah Vang | Jan 1, 2018 | I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
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 the semester, trimester, or block plan, everyone is rushing to get off...
by Megan Cooke | Nov 2, 2017 | FirstGenerationStudent.com Blogs, I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
I had a flashback today, back to last year: my sophomore year. It happened as I was looking at classes for next semester for pre-registration that’s coming up for Whitman. My major is...
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