by Adriana Gonzalez, Pomona College
Music was never as important to me as it has been for the past two and a half years since I started my journey here at Pomona. Months after the August that I arrived, I started to miss, almost immediately, the sound of the accordion playing underneath melodramatic...
by Megan Cooke, Whitman College, '19
Personal statements are meant to be personal…but it’s harder to seem authentic when you’re thinking is biased towards pleasing a top choice institution or maybe a second best. Personal statements are a way to advertise yourself, really. Maybe thinking of an ad you’ve...
by Santiago Montoya, Brandeis University , '19
As I arrived to college, just as I was in the car with all my junk, I got a call from my assigned peer mentor. His name is Ashani. He greeted me, let me know where my key was, and then where my residence hall was. He is a special person and had an answer to most of my...
by Abraham Vicuna, University of Houston
Letters of recommendation, as you may know, have many implications. Among those are scholarships, job references, and in the college application process. A good place to start when considering a person who can write a letter of recommendation for you is by thinking...
by Alexa Rodriguez, Wellesley College , '17
Personal statements can be equal parts refreshing and terrifying because of its open-endedness. How can you POSSIBLY put your whole life and personality into two pages? That is something I remember struggling with when I was applying to colleges in high school, and...
by Xavier Husser, Boston College, '18
As an upperclassmen in college, it amazes me to think about the things I worried about going to college and the things I didn’t consider. Just last night one of my classmates from high school hit me up because his sister who’s a senior is interested in Boston College....
