Scary OR Sweet

by Berenice Perez, St. Olaf College, '23

Coming into college, I had no idea what to expect. I did not know that being an Economics and Statistics concentrator will lead me to have a great friendship with my friend. This major will help me have a friend to share the same accomplishments, moments of stress,...

Minority groups are mainly affected by COVID

by Berenice Perez, St. Olaf College, '23

I am from the Southside of Chicago. To be more specific, I grew up in Mckinley Park, which is 5 minutes away from Back of the Yards, 10 minutes away from Pilsen, and 10 minutes away from Little Village. I grew up in a Mexican household, and my parents are immigrants....

Winter Term, 2012.

by Irvin Gomez, Dartmouth College , '13

If you have read my posts from last year, you probably remember how winter term was a really rough time in terms of academics. Despite my efforts, physics was beyond my understanding and so I had to drop engineering as a major. But all of that is in the past, and the...

READY! SET! GO!

by Cynthia Cruz, Illinois Wesleyan University, '14

*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!...