by Atzallali Saucedo-Ruiz | Oct 9, 2020 | Student Blogs
I remember being very terrified of not fitting in at college. I was specially worried that I wouldn’t find friends, that I would get lost finding my classes, that nobody would want to stay in and play board games etc. During my freshman year, as a...
by Brianna Gavin | Oct 9, 2020 | eNews, FirstGenerationStudent.com Blogs, I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
The best advice I have been given in the past few months was that “my next step is not my final step”. Searching for schools has been a feat that I never expected to be this difficult. Finding myself in the same position four years later is absolutely...
by Raymond Velez | May 11, 2020 | I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
Before I came to college, I knew that I was going to have to eventually get a job. While I was in high school, I had a job during my junior and senior year. I liked making money and working, but an immediate effect was that my grades suffered a little bit. I saw this...
by Raymond Velez | Feb 3, 2020 | Student Blogs
With the new semester beginning, one activity that many of us dread are the ice breakers professors come up with. While ice breakers may seem boring and dull, I’ve noticed that they do in fact tend to “break the ice.” I say this because in the classes where my...
by Gia | Nov 24, 2019 | FirstGenerationStudent.com Blogs, I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
It seems one of the more stressful parts of the college application process is finding someone to write a recommendation letter for you. Some schools may ask you to provide just one while other may ask for three recommenders. If you’re anything like I was, you’re...
by Alexa Yanar | Oct 11, 2019 | I'm First Guide to College, Student Blogs
Having to figure out how to navigate college while simultaneously juggling jobs, extra-curriculars, a social life, and health is a challenge. In my experience, I had to spend more time on academics than classmates because of gaps in my academic background, as well as...
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