HOME FREEE…..almost

by Benjamin Hoertnagl-Pereira, Johns Hopkins University , '18

Having reflecting on this past academic year—on its late nights, existential crises, and applications—one factor found itself atop the list of stress; the insistent, unyielding nagging of where I was applying, what my top choice school was, and what I wanted to study,...

Books & Babies…The Other Side of the Coin

by Seanna Leath

“She got married to who…wait, when did this happen?  Hold on…WHEN is the baby due?”  I must have sounded like a broken record after a while; catching up with friends from back home in Arkansas took a decided shift around junior year.  My classmates and I were now in...

Resume in the Apple Juice

by Seanna Leath

Personal statement.  Statement of purpose.  Personal-ment of the state you’re in.  No matter how the words were rearranged, it still loomed large and confusingly in my mind.  Being well into my junior year, I’m now approached more seriously by professors to discuss my...

CSO II: Halloween Edition

by Madison Zollner, Missouri University of Science and Technology , '15

College searches can be so scary and overwhelming! I mean, how are you supposed to know what you want to do with your life when you’re only eighteen years old?!? In this short video I give high school students advice while they’re making decisions for...

Take a Breath and Push Through

by Long Dang, Williams College, '14

Getting into college is hard; at least that’s what I was thinking this time last year while going through the application process. When senior year rolled around I didn’t really have a clue where I wanted to go for college, or what I wanted to do when I got there. As...