Four months ago, I was learning how to cook in Cape Town, South Africa. From June to December last year, I interned and studied abroad at the University of Cape Town. When I got to my hostel in Cape Town, I was on my own (the first time since college) in an entirely...
Year two, Go. Sophomore year is here! It has only been a year but I feel a lot wiser coming back to Williams. There’s an entire class of new faces on campus, and I am a year older. One year might not seem like a long time but it makes a huge difference in college. My...
Spring Break 2012 can be summed up with road trips, ultimate Frisbee, stargazing fireworks. Break started at 3:00pm on Friday the 16th after my paper was due. An hour after that the Frisbee team drove down to Pennsylvania to get ready for a tournament in New Jersey on...
DONE. First semester of college is finally over! I never thought that I would get into college; so finishing the first semester is such an incredible accomplishment. I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am to have so many opportunities. The thought that I am...
The Center for Student Opportunity has showed me that college is definitely a possibility for first generation college students. I come from a low socioeconomic background and it was an incredible struggle to try and pay for college. But thanks to the CSO scholarship...
Unbelievable, first semester is almost over. There is just one more week of classes and then another week for finals. After that it’s over. Seems like yesterday that my parents dropped me off and helped me moved into my dorm. When you move in, you don’t really think...
It’s silly to admit now but coming into high school I didn’t really know what I was going to do with myself. I maintained decent grades, but there wasn’t much of a motivation to do anything else after high school. I thought that college wasn’t a possibility because...
Getting into college is hard; at least that’s what I was thinking this time last year while going through the application process. When senior year rolled around I didn’t really have a clue where I wanted to go for college, or what I wanted to do when I got there. As...
When I got to Williams College I was bombarded with opportunities. The second I got to Williams I noticed the insane numbers of posters advertising about activities to do and events to attend. All sorts of clubs that I’ve never seen or heard of before were...