by Samuel Hayes, Northern Arizona University , '17
The last semester of senior year of high school is one of the most fun times ever. You are about to graduate, most people have already gotten accepted into college, now you just have to cruise through the rest of high school. When I was a senior, I just kicked back...
by Long Dang, Williams College, '14
Four months ago, I was learning how to cook in Cape Town, South Africa. From June to December last year, I interned and studied abroad at the University of Cape Town. When I got to my hostel in Cape Town, I was on my own (the first time since college) in an entirely...
by Lauren A. Mayo, University of Georgia, '15
Nearing the end of my junior, I have had quite the college experience. There have been difficult times but the positives genuinely outweigh the negatives. We attend college to gain a degree but we take away so much more. The bulk of tools and lessons I have learned in...
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...
