This Time, Last Year

by Irvin Gomez, Dartmouth College , '13

This time, last year, the weight of expectations, nervousness, expectancy, and excitement took shelter on my shoulders as I stood, amazed, admiring the place that was to be my home for four years. Questions of whether I was made for this, fears of failure and...

Raise the bar, raise the effort.

by Irvin Gomez, Dartmouth College , '13

I have not blogged in a really long time. The reason for this has been the incessant amount of work that this term has brought. Although to high schoolers three classes do not sound like a lot, believe me, three classes are more than enough in a place like this one....

Finding the perfect college fit

by Joseph Dingman

CSO Opportunity Scholarship blogger and Occidental College sophomore Joe Dingman talks about how he knew Occidental was the perfect college home for him. Check out his video here!

Expectations Pt. 2.

by Irvin Gomez, Dartmouth College , '13

The line “The top gets higher the more that I climb” is one of my favorite strings of words and it is a reflection of the environment in which the college student finds himself or herself. As you enter college, everything changes. As I mentioned in the previous post,...

Expectations Pt.1

by Irvin Gomez, Dartmouth College , '13

This is the first part of a three part blog. It would be a really long blog if put all together and so, in order to not bore anyone, I have divided it into three parts. Last night, tired of double integrals and finding volumes under surfaces, I decided that the best...