I have to confess…I failed to set any New Year’s Resolutions for this upcoming year. I don’t have my usual slip of paper with five or seven things written down that I’d like to improve, and I didn’t even commit to trying to lose that extra-comfortable ten pounds...
Center for Student Opportunity’s scholarship has helped allow me to attend Pomona, my top choice after visiting the campus three years ago. Since I was little, my mom reiterated that I would have to get a scholarship to go to college; education was pushed in our home,...
On Friday, September 2nd, 2011, I sat down for an interview with two Deans at our college. I’d just returned from a run at the gym and was looking forward to the Open House at our student center that night. Before the interview, I’d mentioned that I’d been emailed...
A few years ago, my friends and I talked excitedly about heading off to college in August—ready to meet new people and take great classes and be college students. We talked about the schools we’d chosen to attend and how amazing it would be to leave home and be out on...
