Recovery From Failure

by Steven Shi

So yesterday, I had taken the hardest academic test of my life, my algorithms midterm. Maybe it was because I haven’t taken “hard” tests before or perhaps that it was because the test was simply hard.  Who knows, who cares; reflecting on the day, I certainly didn’t....

Unorganized and emotional much? Part I.

by Brenda Angulo, Trinity Washington University , '17

It just all fell apart. I started doing very well in school at  the beginning of my Spring ’14 semester; I kept up with most of work and I tried to participate and complete the work for all of my classes. However, little by little I started slipping. There was...

Nobody's Perfect: Set Your Own Personal Limits

by Lysa Vola, Williams College, '14

As president of my college’s Peer Health organization, we decided to center our final campaign of the year around the myth of effortless perfection and how while college students might seem like they have it all together all the time…WE REALLY DON’T....

Comforter

by Leah Jean-Louis, Swarthmore College, '14

Don’t let the title confused. I’m not going to ramble off about a blanket. I want to talk about someone who will comfort you through the good, bad and ugly. In college there are going to be times where you studied your brains out for an exam or you put lots of hours...