Classes meanwhile you're sick???

Okay, so once you start a new semester everything seems to be under control. You have arranged your time, you have been doing your work, you have been doing your readings. But what when something unexpected happens? Like… You get sick and you can’t make it...

Impressions and Habits

Hey I’m First students! This is Carlton and today I want to talk to you all about habits and their connections to impressions. When we all think of the most important impression, the first impression. We also automatically assume first impressions only matter in the...

The Personal Statement: Your Experience, Your Story

As many of you are preparing to apply to colleges, you are revising your personal statement. Unlike your transcript, resume, and recommendations, your personal statement is the only opportunity you get to tell your story to colleges and explain why you deserve to be...

The Unwelcomed and The Unexpected

About a month and a half ago, a day before I left for Brown, I was playing a nice, relaxing game of pickup soccer.  My old teammates were about to leave for their colleges for the start of their soccer seasons; it would our last game together for the year.  We set up...

From Freshman to Senior, A Reflection

Looking back on freshman year I remember a very nervous, timid, and anxious Nahomi. Coming to such a big school was definitely something I was neither prepared for, nor expected. I think my biggest fear was not finding my own place, or sense of belonging, especially...