What People Do Not Tell You: You Deserve a Break from College Stuff

The last month of the year is usually filled with final projects, essays, and other deadlines. This year, I had a final until the 20th of December and after I got home, I just felt completely exhausted. The days up until Christmas, I have spent them doing nothing but...

Post-College Plans Should Not Take Over your Senior Year

Readjusting back to campus can be difficult after coming back from abroad, especially because we are facing almost the reality of life. Real life is coming sooner or later and the thought of it may make us anxious and apprehensive, but know that things always do work...

Help

“Padah, you just need to ask for help,” my friend told me. Yes, I need help. But as a fourth year student, I still do not know how to ask for help. I was sitting in class when my professor was talking about a CC Alumni’s research on sense of belonging at Colorado...

Why is it important that you have a solid group of friends in college?

As expected, the first few weeks have been a challenge of adaptability, but I write this from the comfort of a new place where I find peace and happiness. As I have mentioned before in other blog posts, this senior year my friends and I are living in a house not so...

Summers: Then and Now

This past summer, I spent it at PayPal working as a Full Stack Software Engineering Intern. It was a tough learning experience as I was thrown into a new world but I am overall grateful for the experience. This internship was very technical and it allowed me to build...