Meet the new I'm First Bloggers

by I'm First Administrator

We’ve selected 8 awesome first-year college students who beat the odds to become the first in their family to attend college as winners of the 2013 I’m First Scholarship. Scholarship winners receive a $2,000 four-year, renewable award and blog here to...

Juniors

by Leah Jean-Louis, Swarthmore College, '14

ATTENTION: High school juniors get your act together. Sure you have all the time in the world right? Wrong. Time goes by fast and you don’t want to rush through one of the most important forms of your life. Start early please! Make a solid list of the schools that...

Nice to meet you!

by Joe Tavares

It’s always funny when you meet someone and they are totally different than who you thought they would be.  Like when we found out the “Wizard of Oz” was actually just an old man hiding behind a curtain. I bring up that example because I was in Boston this weekend,...