Leaving and Returning Home: Was It Easy?

            When I was a freshman leaving for college, I did not always find the transition to be easy. There have been times in my college experience that I found it difficult to transition from living at home to...

Moving In: Dorms and Homesickness

Freshman year, my parents flew with me over to Amherst. They rented a car and helped me move in and buy the necessities. As soon as they saw my room, the look of my mom’s face said it all; I was going to live in a matchbox. The room wasn’t only oddly L-shaped, it was...

Settled in!

To the incoming freshmen. I hope you are getting settled in your dorms and with your class schedules. Luckily, I did before Hurricane Irene blew through my campus. I know you’re excited to be in college. When I was in high school, the night before school started...