This article was originally published on Big Future.  Taking challenging classes in high school is a great way to build new skills. And it will serve you well when you get to college, because you’ll be more prepared for the work. In a recent survey of college freshmen, more than half of the students surveyed said [...]

This article was originally published on Big Future.  The PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 measure the knowledge and skills you’ve developed in reading, writing and language, and math. Students in 10th and 11th grade can take the new PSAT/NMSQT for the first time in October 2015; sophomores can also take the PSAT 10 the following spring. [...]

I am the first person in my family to graduate high school. On the other hand, I am not the first person in my family to go to college. I will be the first veterinarian […]

During Colorado College’s Admitted Student Open House, an admitted student who I was playing ping pong with asked me, “If you don’t make friends during your first week of college, are you doomed?” I looked confusedly at her and thought to myself why would you be doomed if you didn’t make any friends during the [...]

The years of my childhood were shaped by the experience of watching my parents work. Both came to America as young adults, my father from Portugal and my mother from Austria. Here, with tenacity, grit, and humility, they built a life for themselves and for our family. They taught us that every job deserves being [...]

More than halfway through my study abroad experience in Brazil and the lessons I have learned up until now are too plentiful to recount. I feel as though I arrived at the airport just last week, although the fact that I recognize street signs and know how to speak Portuguese without an accent remind me [...]

School is almost over which means summer will finally be here! This semester has been incredibly hard so I am actually counting down the days until I’m free. The classes I took this semester had me thinking about when I was in high school and would talk to the college students for advice. I remember [...]

In these past few days, I found myself contemplating the last remaining years of my college career under the impression that I’ll be an independent college student working her way through semesters in an apartment paid for with my own income. Then there was the pause of…..what income? Now, I’m no stranger to work. Right [...]

As people are making their choices about where they want to be over the next four years, one of the most important choices a student makes when in college is finding a job both in the sense of in school and after graduation. When I received my financial aid and saw the work study portion, [...]

The last leg of a race, is always the hardest to run. It’s not because your body can’t handle it. That home stretch is your body against your mind, it’s all up to your mind’s stamina and desire to finish. Maybe it’s because I love running, or maybe it’s because running actually is suitably analogous [...]