by I'm First Administrator
On April 22, we held a Google+ Hangout discussing our new web app for first-gen students and their supporters, the I’m First Dashboard! Chelsea Jones, Student Support Associate, along with Tiare Dunlap, Student Programs Assistant, gave an introduction and...
by Minh Ngoc Nguyen-Ngo, Yale University , '15
Regular decision date for most colleges is just around the corner. There’s not a lot of advice I can give about what to do during this awful wait (just relax and remember to breathe), so I’ll talk a bit about what to do after the decision date. If...
by Lauren A. Mayo, University of Georgia, '15
College is not high school. You can do a million things in high school but it is important to not stretch yourself thin in college. This is advice I received going into my first year of college. I managed to maintain balance well my first semester but second semester...
by Lauren A. Mayo, University of Georgia, '15
No loans. No loans. No loans. Ever since I learned of the skyrocketing rates of college tuition (even at in state schools), I feared I would need a ton of loans to attend college. However, I turned to scholarships to avoid accumulating debt. I joined sites like...