Upcoming Graduation and Thinking about Adulthood

Given that my undergraduate days are almost over, I realized…most expect me to be an adult now. You know when you have that moment of slow, shocking revelation when something bad happens and you look around the room for the adult…and you realize that’s you. Or the...

Budgeting beats breaking the bank

A lot of us have heard about the starving college freshman, right? You have no idea how true that can be for a lot of college students. I attend a college where the vast majority of the students are well off and able to pay four years worth of tuition in one single...

READY! SET! GO!

*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEEEEP* went my cell phone’s crappy alarm. It was 6:32am on August 13, 2011. I could see it was still early because I did not hear the familiar Chicago traffic outside my window. As I wiped the boogers from my bloodshot eyes, I knew today was the day!...

Wow…I made it this far!

It’s so hard to believe that this is my third fall semester at Dillard University. I’m a Junior Ya’ll. I can recall so many moments where i wanted to give up, countless nights of studying and writing ten page papers. I can actually say that I am...