by Jessica Hernandez, Dartmouth College , '22 | November 2, 2020
First and foremost, I want to introduce myself as this is my very first post! 🙂 Hi everyone! My name is Jessica Hernandez, I’m a first-generation Latina from Lynn, MA. I attend Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and I’m currently a third-year student taking classes...
by Yessica Flores | October 28, 2020
As we all know, COVID-19 has made large and small scale changes in the lives of everyone. One way in which I have recognized that students have been impacted is in the struggle to build and maintain social networks. I have seen this impact in both my first-year...
by Atzallali Saucedo-Ruiz, Skidmore College , '21 | October 9, 2020
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, University of Dayton, '21 | October 9, 2020
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, Virginia Commonwealth University, '22 | May 11, 2020
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, Virginia Commonwealth University, '22 | February 3, 2020
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...
