Phantom Limb

by Seanna Leath

Imagine sitting at the kitchen table every night, head bent over bills, trying to make pennies stretch into places where dollar bills are necessary… …Working fifty hours a week behind a desk, then returning to work five more hours each night,...

FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW RIGHT NOW!

by Jeremy Harris, Mizzou-University of Missouri, '15

Hey CSO Blog Family: Happy Holidays! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy New Year!  I hope this holiday season brought you peace, love and joy. I hope everyone got some amazing Christmas gifts! As a first year college student, this was a wonderful time of reflection for me.  Going...

Transitioning: B-school to E-school

by Duylam Nguyen-Ngo, The University of Virginia , '12

Well, I suppose it’s quite appropriate that this post would be about a fairly large event in my life given that my last post was months ago. It’s been 3 months since I traded in case studies for problem sets. I transferred from Babson College to...

Bye Bye Birdie

by Abigail Macias, Dartmouth College

“Wait until I’m 18; I’ll be outta here!” Whenever I used to get into an argument with my mom it wasn’t uncommon for me to tell her those exact words and the same holds true for a lot of high school students. But the truth is that...

The most intense 3 hours of my life.

by Khadijah Williams, Harvard University , '15

Hurry bus! Please hurry!! March 31st was the craziest time for me. I elected to get my admissions decisions from Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Williams, and Harvard by email, because truthfully, I didn’t want to wait for mail. Although I got into a lot of...