Christmas Countdown and Graduating Early?

by Jenny Luong, Amherst College, '14

Even when you’re not a senior, every final feels like some epic battle to the finish. Tying your hair back, slipping on some sweats, and pushing up those thick-rimmed glasses while you study. Then you get to that last paragraph on your research paper, you get a sudden...

“Aye, there’s the rub”

by Matt Rubinoff

“Jeez Jason,” I exclaim rather enviously, “you must be 10 pounds heavier with all those medals hanging around your neck!” But what else can I say? My childhood friend, who just spent an entire year in Germany, graduates Summa Cum Laude—an unblemished 4.0. He...

The Senior Thesis

by Joseph Dingman

Thesis? I first heard of this strange abstraction during my first year of college.  In my second year, I met lonely seniors in the college library working on what sounded like an impossible project. When you are a second year in college, “thesis” still...

Seniors..the final stretch!

by Irvin Gomez, Dartmouth College , '13

December and January have flown by. February is soon to leave us as well. As these months pass by, so have college application deadlines. You are now done with all your applications (or most of them, in case there are later deadlines) and are just patiently waiting...

Minty Fresh at Michigan State

by Seanna Leath

Have you ever been in a situation where you’re meeting new people, and your cheeks ache from the incessant smiling and talking that you’ve had to do?  Add cold fingers and toes to the stiff cheeks and you’ve nearly summed up my current situation.  As I sit and type...