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...
by Abigail Macias, Dartmouth College
In high school (and most high schools across the nation), the academic calendar is organized around the semester system, that is, two big blocks of instruction time that usually run sixteen weeks. Twelve years of this almost made me forget that winter existed; my...
by Julianna Moreno, Texas State University , '15
One thing that has amazed me about college is how much we gain and learn in a tiny span of time. As I read back at my old blogs, it seems as if I wrote it years ago. A LOT has changed in two months! First of all, my faith in god has grown stronger now that I’m in...
by Jesse Sanchez, Harvard University , '14
I love movies- I’ve been a film connoisseur since my earliest memories. I remember watching the Lion King and commenting on the director’s techniques in between spoonfuls of my corn flakes, let’s put it like that. And even though I never strayed too far from that...
by Jesse Sanchez, Harvard University , '14
Rome, Italy… One of the places I’ve dreamed of going since the first time we learned about its epic history in elementary school. I remember looking at the pictures of the Colosseum and the Pantheon and wondering if I’d ever get a chance to walk the same terrain as...
