by Malajah Johnson, Thiel College , '23 | June 1, 2022
When I was a freshman leaving for college, I did not always find the transition to be easy. There have been times in my college experience that I found it difficult to transition from living at home to...
by ADaja, Washington University in St. Louis, '22 | May 27, 2022
As a first-generation, low income student going into college with little to no funds, I knew I would have to find a job while living on-campus. I had never really worked much in high school and the thought of searching for jobs and interviewing for positions stressed...
by Jessica Hernandez, Dartmouth College , '22 | May 16, 2022
Leaving home my first year definitely wasn’t easy. Before college, I had only been away from home for maybe a few weeks, a month tops. Dartmouth is only 2 hours away from Lynn, MA (where I grew up), and though in comparison to some of my friends here who were coming...
by Eyzel Torres, University of Illinois Chicago, '22 | May 1, 2022
My spring semester in high school was very exciting because I was finally going to move on to the next chapter in my life. I had been accepted into the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as an undergraduate student, an honors college student, a recipient of the...
by Cessia Gonzalez, Southern Methodist University, '26 | May 1, 2022
After months of writing, interviews, and fighting for myself, I uneasily opened the letter that held my fate. My future was riding on the contents of this one letter. After shakingly opening the letter, my heart raced and dropped… I had applied to Texas A&M...
by Malajah Johnson, Thiel College , '23 | April 29, 2022
While a senior in my high school class, I would often worry about college and if I would be prepared to handle such an intense workload. I tried to do everything that I could to stay prepared for college because I knew that it would not be a walk in the park. However,...
