Home Is Always Where The Heart Is

As Thanksgiving is oh so slowly approaching, and I am finishing up projects and assignments while making travel arrangements, I think about how different it feels now than it did in my freshman year. I came to a college where I knew no one, I left everyone I knew and...

Static on the Line

A few years ago, my friends and I talked excitedly about heading off to college in August—ready to meet new people and take great classes and be college students. We talked about the schools we’d chosen to attend and how amazing it would be to leave home and be out on...

Year Two: The challenge continues!

My second year at W&L is everything that I expected it to be: fun, exciting, and quite a bit harder than last year! My classes (*cough* microeconomic theory) have been extremely challenging. Besides microeconomic theory, I’m currently taking health economics,...

CSO II: Halloween Edition

College searches can be so scary and overwhelming! I mean, how are you supposed to know what you want to do with your life when you’re only eighteen years old?!? In this short video I give high school students advice while they’re making decisions for...

The inconvenient truth about how applying to college REALLY works.

“I’m applying to Harvard and plan to follow the Pre-med track along with a major in Biomedical Engineering.” I don’t think I can even begin to count the number of times I have heard a statement exactly, or very similar, to the one above. It is human nature to plan out...

The Sophomore Year Update

Hey CSO family, I hope the school year has gone well for you all because this semester has surely been a whirlwind of change for me. First and foremost the start of my sophomore year has been an incredible experience. I am currently residing in my fraternities’...