It's Okay, It's Just College

Regular decision date for most colleges is just around the corner. There’s not a lot of advice I can give about what to do during this awful wait (just relax and remember to breathe), so I’ll talk a bit about what to do after the decision date. If...

Sometimes you pick the school, and sometimes the school picks you.

Surely, most current high school seniors are lacking finger-nails right about now. In less than a month, admissions decisions from hundreds of colleges around the country and around the world will be delivered into mailboxes. I remember this time last year too...

College: The Land of the Free

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of college is the freedom: The chance to make my own decisions, the opportunity to decide what I will do with my time, where I will go, and how long I will stay out. In college I will make my first steps into adulthood...

I'm a Junior Again?!

So although I am in college I am in the same place that many of the readers are. Just like I did junior year of high school, I am spending all of my free time looking at schools. No I am not transferring, instead I am looking into graduate programs. Yes I am one of...

The Summer That My Mind Changed

The decisions you make follow you and take you into paths that are full of other decisions. In the last few months of my freshman year at Dartmouth I made the decision that the best way that I could help people would be by studying something in the social sciences....