Week 5: YouTube Live Chats with College Partners

This week, I’m First! and Strive for College hosted its 5th chat in a  two month long series of YouTube Live Chats with College Partners. In these chats, colleges and universities discuss information about their schools, talk about the great programs available for...

College Is A 4-Year-Long Balancing Act For First-Generation Students

We’re excited to have an I’m First! Blogger and first-generation college graduate featured on NPR! This article was originally published on November 2, 2016 on WMAC The Roundtable.   College Is A 4-Year Long Balancing Act for First-Generation Students...

A Journey to Remember with People Never to Forget

I knew that I missed being at Emory but I don’t think I fully understood how much. Just being on campus again took my mind back to many different warm experiences that only people at Emory can relate to. I also realized what or, rather, whom I am so attached to at...

Moving Forward

Last week marked the beginning of my last semester of college. In a few short months, I will be walking across that graduation stage to accept my degree… my college degree! This all seems so surreal. It’s like I’ve been staring in the distance at a dream that just...

The Responsibility of the Learner

Over the past several months, I have had the privilege of studying abroad here in South Africa at the University of Cape Town learning about this country’s unique history and developing a better understanding of where it is and is going as a nation. I have heard so...