by Omwatie Beharry, Wellesley College , '17
My first week at Wellesley has been everything I expected (as cliché as it sounds) and quite a few things that I did not anticipate. It has been simultaneously familiar and somehow fresh and completely eye-opening. I’ve registered for the classes that I’d been eying...
by Dallas Simms, The University of Virginia , '17
I don’t understand. How can everyone make friends by asking each other the most generic questions: “What’s your name, where are you from, and what do you want to major in?” All I hear are these same three questions and then silence. It’s so difficult to keep any other...
by Maggie Acosta, Bowdoin College, '15
So I’m just going to come right out and say it: The first year is hard. Very hard. I had days where I just wanted my mom’s hugs or to be alone with my own thoughts. But I also had those days where I was just baffled by all the amazing people around me and...
by Cynthia Cruz, Illinois Wesleyan University, '14
I had no idea what college held for me in the Fall of 2011. I did not know what to do or where to go within my community to prepare myself for college. How should I present myself? What kind of relationship could I have with my professors? I was friend-less in high...
