6 Weeks Into My New Life

by Jordan Lillegard, University of Southern California

Well here I am, about six week into college, and it is great! This whole experience has been mostly what I expected. During the past year I couldn’t stop thinking about college, about the dorm life, living out on my own, having a typically shorter day of classes as...

This is so fun.

by Jenny Luong, Amherst College, '14

So as part of the “college experience”, my friends and I decide to go to a few of the parties on Saturday night. Yeah! The college experience! I walk in at 1 AM and so many people are drunk. I mean, they’re just GONE. They’re waving their hands...

Reflections On The First Semester

by Joseph Dingman

Wow!  Like everyone else has said, this semester has absolutely flown by.    I remember during the first few weeks of school wondering whether or not I was going to handle the social situation of all these kids that I had very little in common with.  I did miss my...

Thriving First Semester

by Lysa Vola, Williams College, '14

You’re probably wondering why the title of my blog is “thriving” first semester rather than “surviving” first semester. Well, that’s because a dean at my college once told me, that college is not merely about doing what you have to...

TTBFS-The Truth Behind First Semester

by Seanna Leath

I wanted this piece to be especially powerful, since I can now say that my first semester of college is over.  I’m half-a-semester closer to sophomore year, and 12.5{53c6eff5ce19621f7316832cfedf08caab022021f1679c62c3f44b8900ceaf72} of my college undergraduate...