Embrace the confusion

A lot of people refer to college as the best time of their life because of all of the friends that they made and experiences they had. I do love college for those reasons but I mostly love college because of the confusion it causes. Society expects us young people to...

Finals and my friend Netflix

Once the reading period starts, the atmosphere change is oh so tangible here on campus. First off, I should explain what reading period is. We get a couple of days in which we don’t have classes so that we can use that time to study. Theoretically we should be...

All Aboard the Struggle Bus

We are in the thick of application system, and we suddenly find ourselves married to our laptops. Hmm, on the subject of laptops let me tell you a horror story that I think a lot of people can learn from. Let me begin my horror story by admitting that I am not the...

Phoenix

When I started my sophomore year of college I was timidly, even hesitantly, committed to being premed. I kept feeling like I was not special enough, or intelligent enough to be able to make it into medical school. I was thinking of defeat before I’d even started...

Opportunity Knocks: Open House, Fly-in & Visit Programs, Part II

Click here to view the October Special Edition Opportunity Knocks newsletter featuring Open House, Fly-in & Visit opportunities at: George Washington University, Washington, DC, Your GW: An Open House Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion, October 23-24; November...