Opportunity Knocks: Scholarships and Financial Aid

Click here to view the January Opportunity Knocks newsletter featuring Scholarship and Financial Aid opportunities at: Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, Diversity Scholarships Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, The William E. Trueheart Scholarship Chapman...

Giving Thanks!

Giving Thanks! Sometimes, due to the stress of classes, exams, and any other extra curricular activities that we are apart of, it is easy to forget what a wonderful and privileged opportunity we have in front of us. As college students, especially first generation...

Coming Full Circle

In high school (and most high schools across the nation), the academic calendar is organized around the semester system, that is, two big blocks of instruction time that usually run sixteen weeks. Twelve years of this almost made me forget that winter existed; my...

Reality Check

“But if I work full-time and cut down on my living expenses I can afford it, right?” As she pleads for me to understand all I do is shake my head and mouth the words “NO!” To give you some background I have a friend, for this post I will call her Ashley, who has set...

Lysa & Long's Williams College Video Tour!

Hi Everyone, Fellow CSO blogger Long Dang and I got together this past weekend, to give you our version of a Williams College Campus Tour! Of course we honored CSO in our matching “I’m First” t-shirts. Many people asked us what these shirts meant...