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...
by Gina Bolanos | Sep 5, 2017 | FirstGenerationStudent.com Blogs, I'm First Guide to College
It’s that time of the year again! School has just begun but this year is different than any other. It’s my last year! It’s a bittersweet moment for me, as I just came back from...
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