by Lysa Vola, Williams College, '14
Center for Student Opportunity has provided me with a gift that is irreplaceable, my education. Growing up in a home situation that was often tumultuous, I used my education as a means of coping. I always knew that education was the one thing nobody could ever take...
by Jesse Sanchez, Harvard University , '14
Center for Student Opportunity has been there for me since day one. As a first-generation college student, I had no idea what to expect or how to prepare for life in higher education. Because no one else in my entire family had ever gone to college because of the lack...
by Ashley Roberts, Illinois Wesleyan University, '13
As Thanksgiving is oh so slowly approaching, and I am finishing up projects and assignments while making travel arrangements, I think about how different it feels now than it did in my freshman year. I came to a college where I knew no one, I left everyone I knew and...
by Jesse Sanchez, Harvard University , '14
It still blows my mind to think that I’m halfway through college… It seems like I just started blogging with CSO but it’s already been two years… Well, I have definitely grown in more ways than are possible to count but the change doesn’t...
by Jesse Sanchez, Harvard University , '14
I can’t believe how much my life has changed. I had only seen California and parts of Mexico (where family lives) before I went to college. But now, and all in the past few months- I have traveled across oceans, hemispheres, and continents… And all because...
