Choosing Your Next Step

by Brianna Gavin, University of Dayton, '21

The best advice I have been given in the past few months was that “my next step is not my final step”. Searching for schools has been a feat that I never expected to be this difficult. Finding myself in the same position four years later is absolutely...

Waiting Was Worthwhile

by Ivania Zepeda

Waiting for responses from the schools I applied to was a pain in the hiney. One night, I dreamt that I had received an acceptance letter from Brown University. It was merely a dream. It felt so real though. What did this dream mean? Was it a sign? Was this my fate:...

Sweet and Scary

by Maggie Acosta, Bowdoin College, '15

I don’t know how I always get lucky, but everything in my life has always worked out for the best. It just happens and I have no idea how. But I remember during my search, the scariest thing for me wasn’t financing school, getting in, or anything along those...

Not Exactly Sweet or Scary: The College Search

by Jenny Luong, Amherst College, '14

Instead of my college-searching  experience being either scary or sweet, it was more like biting into an oddly shaped unwrapped  sweet that your friend gave to you without any explanation, and finding it has  a mellow sweetness to it but an odd texture. Sure, I was...

Can that not be called happiness?

by Alexis Montes, University of Rochester, '15

I’m just a poor boy. I come from dirt roads and flea markets. I used to eat ramen noodles for lunch. My most expensive toy set was a box of Legos. How did I do it? I came from nothing. There was no house, no perfect family; no inheritance to be drawn from. I...