This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. Note from the editors: We asked Kenny Yim, one of the first participants in the QuestBridge program, to write about how he came across the program and how it has affected...
This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. When I started getting college acceptance letters, I couldn’t contain my excitement. The hours and hours I’d spent on applications were finally paying off!...
This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. I have always been fond of sports analogies because of how accurate they are. In sports, as in life, everyone has their big supporter or (as my parents affectionately refer...
This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. One of my favorite movies is “I Heart Huckabees.” In this movie, one characters tells another character: “Everything you could ever want or be, you already...
This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. With finals, papers and a litany of other assignments due just around the corner, it’s almost unreal just how fast this first semester of college has flown by. And, at...
This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. Considering what it means to be a first-generation college student transports me instantly to my childhood home in the South Side of Chicago, to the moment when my father...
