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Decide What's Best for You
Although high school did get tough at times, overall I had a pretty good high school career. I never failed a class, I did not have anything lower than an 85{53c6eff5ce19621f7316832cfedf08caab022021f1679c62c3f44b8900ceaf72} on my transcript and I passed all of my...
My Message to First-Gens: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Achieve Greatness!
This article was originally written for FirstGenerationStudent.com, now a part of ImFirst.org. I remember waking up and putting on my suit. While I took the extra time to adjust the knot on my tie, I looked in the mirror. As I stood there dressed to make an...
#AskAdmissions First Generation Panel
On October 22nd, I'm First held an #AskAdmissions Google+ Hangout, featuring our College Partners and our I'm First Bloggers! I’m First College Partners, University of Notre Dame and Bucknell University, discussed ways in which first-generation students could...
Be the Reason
Passion. I remember looking online for advice about college admission essays and seeing the word “passion". All the articles I read warned me not to write about the death of a loved one, an injury that I had overcome, or what it meant to be captain of the...
Homecoming
3 months into my collegiate experience, I am having an excellent time. I have made new friends, become involved in various organizations and have even started to play guitar! The freedom that college has afforded me is such a great thing, and one that any high...
Drive It Before You Buy It
As I sit here thinking about how to start this particular blog, my lips are slowly curving to form a smile. I’m reminiscing on all the good times that I enjoyed as I was going through the college search process my senior year of high school. Beyond the stress of...
Overcoming Fear!
Thinking about college can be scary, stressful, and even disappointing. There are so many choices to be made and so much paperwork to get done; it gets crazy. As a senior in high school, and as an undocumented student, I mainly worried about paying for college....
Best Times Of My Life
College has been one of the best times of my life. It’s been full of fun times, late nights, and getting lost around campus. It consists of my friends and me going to get pizza at 4 am in the ice cold weather just because we are hungry, pulling pranks on each other,...
You & I can change it all
There are a lot of things that the pretty college brochures that will/have attacked your mailbox don't show. Sometimes they forget to mention how outrageously pricey the school's dining plans really are, and other times they forget to tell you that you might be the...
Soliciting a Recommendation
The letter of recommendation is used to have more references linked to the experience and attributes of an applicant. A good recommendation letter consists of an introduction, a context, a recommendation, and a closure. You want to ask your recommenders if they are...