Finals Week

It is the dreaded finals season. A time where you gear up, power through long, heavy study sessions, and hope it will be over soon in order to enjoy a much needed restful break. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel; this is when motivation and perseverance...

A Break before the Storm

As the world crumbled below my feet, collapsing into itself and swallowing me whole, I grasped for fragments who I was. Name? Raquel, I think. I was born in Fremont, I think. Or was it Alameda? Age? The beach trip I took to celebrate my 20 years last March. Scattered...

Your zone!

Hi guys! I hope this blog finds all of you well. If you are going back to college great! If your on your endeavors to college even better! I just got back to school myself and so far I love my courses. I realized that I had a long break and my courses are just what I...

Christmas is (almost) Here!!!!!

I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas!!! Holidays are kind of my thing, excuse my excitement. The time has flown by this semester incredibly fast. I spent November frazzled and out of my mind trying to finish all of my assignments early, so forgive me....

Just Another Week

Spring break the coveted week of the college experience.  For me, it was just another week.  I ended up going home for spring break back to NYC…hadn’t made any friends since I’d moved there…still didn’t feel much like home.  At the very least though, I had...