Why You Should Shop (Collegiate Edition!)

The start of the fall semester is always hectic. You might be adjusting to new dorms and living spaces, or taking a class in a building you’ve never even heard of before and having to re-orient yourself around campus. First-year students are dealing with an...

Be Grateful for Your Teachers and Mentors

I suppose my luck really begins with having my mom as a mother. Early on, she imparted to me and my siblings what was truly important in life: knowledge, because no one could ever take it away from me, and love and kindness, because it is our relationship with others...

Meet the new I'm First Bloggers

We’ve selected 8 awesome first-year college students who beat the odds to become the first in their family to attend college as winners of the 2013 I’m First Scholarship. Scholarship winners receive a $2,000 four-year, renewable award and blog here to...

Orientation Week at Wellesley

My first week at Wellesley has been everything I expected (as cliché as it sounds) and quite a few things that I did not anticipate. It has been simultaneously familiar and somehow fresh and completely eye-opening. I’ve registered for the classes that I’d been eying...