PREMEDS: Consider SMDEP!

This summer I participated in SMDEP (Summer Medical Dental Education Program) at Duke University School of Medicine. SMDEP is a free six week summer academic enrichment program for rising sophomore and junior college students who are interested in a career in medicine...

Summer Livin

Hello CSO family, With my summer dwindling down to its last moments I wanted to share some of my experiences with all of you. This summer’s mission was simple: Stay Active. In summers past I would typically hold one job and do nothing else, but this year I...

Save Pell Day

Today has been dedicated “Save Pell Day” and many people do not understand the importance of the Pell Grant and how many people it helps. My contribution to “Save Pell Day” is to write this blog to show just another story of how important the...

Enjoying summer, Excited for fall

It’s hard to believe that in a month and a half I’ll be back in classes! I’ve been completely caught up in my summer job, working as a tour guide at the Washington and Lee Admissions Office. Three times a day, I meet with prospective parents and students and take them...

Enrich Your Summer

It’s almost August. In the blink of an eye, summer will be gone. I never thought summer would go by so fast. I think this is my first summer where the days felt like minutes (and, this makes me very anxious). Like everyone else, I really wanted to have a happy,...

The Summer That My Mind Changed

The decisions you make follow you and take you into paths that are full of other decisions. In the last few months of my freshman year at Dartmouth I made the decision that the best way that I could help people would be by studying something in the social sciences....