When I made the jump from high school to col­lege, it was not a smooth tran­si­tion. At first, I feared the life change that I was about to make. While my fel­low class­mates were eager to receive their admis­sions responses, I was unex­cited about them. I didn’t think that I wanted to go to col­lege because […]

As Eliz­a­beth men­tioned, Feb­ru­ary is a month filled with oppor­tu­ni­ties for bud­ding rela­tion­ships (col­lege accep­tance let­ters) and heart­break. (sigh…rejection let­ters). In some cases, these same let­ters may force some soon-to-be grad­u­at­ing high schools seniors to revisit a ques­tion they once con­fi­dently answered months before pen­ning rough draft per­sonal state­ments. What's more, the answer to this […]

Once upon time, Pell Grants, fed­eral loans from the gov­ern­ment, were a great asset to help stu­dents pay for their col­lege edu­ca­tion. How­ever, Kevin Carey, a pol­icy direc­tor at Edu­ca­tion Sec­tor, a D.C.-based think tank argues that this is no longer the case. In a recent arti­cle, he claims Pell Grants are not as beneficial […]

I caught this "13 Things Stu­dents Love to Hate About Col­lege" arti­cle on the excel­lent Pro­fes­sors' Guide page on USNews.com. They pick up on sev­eral com­mon com­plaints that stu­dents have in col­lege and I thought I'd offer my two cents on a few that res­onated the most with me. 3. My pro­fes­sor is unbe­liev­ably bor­ing. What […]

As this is my first post-college Thanks­giv­ing, I thought I’d take a quick gan­der at what I’m most thank­ful for regard­ing the past four years. Today, I’m thank­ful… …for rig­or­ous course­work (most of the time). It wasn’t until I got to grad­u­ate school that I real­ized how hard my pro­fes­sors pushed me—they set high standards […]