This semester I am co-facilitating a one credit course titled Beyond the Border: Immigration Stories. My co-facilitator and I knew we wanted to teach a one credit course as sophomores, but we were not sure what we wanted our course to be about. I knew I wanted it to...
Today as I was walking on campus I came across one of my friends who is also a first generation college student. My friend is a junior and I am a senior. It just happens to be that today there was a planning conference going on for sophomores to help them plan the...
Meet, connect, reach out and build a support network! One of the things I will take away from my undergrad experience is the importance of building a support system. I remember feeling very lost and disconnected my first year of college. It felt like no one understood...
I don’t know if it is because I am a first generation college student and I have a lot of pressure on me, but I am always thinking about life after college. My friends constantly tease me about how much I enjoy planning ahead, but I just like to feel like I am doing...
It is hard to believe that this is my last time moving into Stonehill. I still remember all of the emotions I felt my freshman year when my mother, uncle and I drove four hours from the Bronx to get here. I am in no means poetic, but sometimes when I am having a hard...
When I first started the process of applying to study abroad I had the same concerns that I had when I was applying to college. I would be the first in my family to study abroad so I did not have anyone in my families who could fully support me in the application...
For my Planning for Multicultural Learning education course I had to write a vignette about anything related to diversity. I decided to write about a time I felt vulnerable and exposed because of my identity. After seeing how much it meant to me to reflect on this...
For my education Planning for Multicultural Learning class I was assigned to read chapter twelve of The Skin That We Speak by educator Joan Wynne. The reading moved me in ways that I did not think possible. In the beginning of the chapter Wynne describes that she took...
I remember being a freshman and constantly wondering where I would be after college graduation and what did I have to do to get there. Every time the thought came into my head I pushed it away by telling myself that it was only my freshman year and that I had plenty...
The time has come to return back to campus. As an RA I come back two weeks before everyone else for training. However, this year I decided to come back 4 days before training started so that I could give myself enough time to adjust to being in a new environment...