Get­ting into the right classes can be quite a dif­fi­cult task in col­lege, espe­cially in your first cou­ple of years, when you do not have reg­is­tra­tion pri­or­ity.  Since you do not get to reg­is­ter first, some­times you will find your­self in a class with a dif­fi­cult pro­fes­sor. This is also the case when it comes […]

Toward the tail end of my senior year, I would end most week­nights with the fol­low­ing rit­ual: Around 11:00 PM, I would climb a flight of stairs up to Jason’s suite, and would engage in a 30 minute ses­sion of play­ing one of Elec­tronic Arts’ best sell­ing video games, FIFA 2009 on Jason’s XBox. I […]

We spend so much time fig­ur­ing out the “right” col­lege to attend that it seems pretty silly to turn around and look for ways to get away, right? Wrong. Study abroad is one of the most valu­able oppor­tu­ni­ties that col­lege affords us and every­one should explore their study abroad options—that’s right, every­one. Even if you’re […]

Jacob, I totally agree with you on the "fail­ure" front. Hav­ing just grad­u­ated in May (and in school all over again in a school), I think a lot about the choices I made and did not make dur­ing my under­grad­u­ate years. There are cer­tainly things that I would have done dif­fer­ently and maybe even wish […]