by Santiago Montoya, Brandeis University , '19
Another semester, another move-in. So I moved in earlier than the rest of the students to Brandeis University. I am an orientation leader (OL) this year, and with other 100 students, began the intense four-day training to become an OL. It is a training that completely...
by Ysabel Cueva, Stonehill College , '17
It is hard to believe that this is my last time moving into Stonehill. I still remember all of the emotions I felt my freshman year when my mother, uncle and I drove four hours from the Bronx to get here. I am in no means poetic, but sometimes when I am having a hard...
by Brenda Angulo, Trinity Washington University , '17
Have you ever failed in doing something? Have you ever gone a certain route and thought that you were going so well that you actually got distracted and failed? I have. Earlier this year, I got myself in a hole from which I thought I could never get out. I am still...
by Xavier Husser, Boston College, '18
There’s a joke around Boston College that once you get on the campus you never want to leave “the Heights”. Just like Michael Corleone in the Godfather III, every time I’ve tried to leave I get pulled back in. I spent my third consecutive summer on campus not only...
by Abraham Vicuna, University of Houston
Ever since I could remember, my family and I have lived near the schools we attended. Growing up me and my siblings used to just have to walk across the street to get to school. Now the same is true. I will not be living on campus, or near campus. I will living at...
by Padah Vang, Colorado College, '19
Hello I’m First! It is so great to be back and blogging! I am having a great summer! I still cannot believe that I will be starting on my second year of college in less than a month. In the last academic school year, I took a course called, Teaching Culturally and...
