Looking For Land

How’s the job search going? Do you know where you want to work? What do you want to do? Well, my LinkedIn network is small. My academics could be better and “the job search” hasn’t even started for me. Lately, it’s been hard for me to...

My College Search and Selection Process

While I had some idea of what I wanted to do after college, I didn’t have a concrete plan on how to make it to where I thought I wanted to be. As scary as that sounds, this is what made the college search process super exciting for me. The College Board website was a...

Who Can Vouch For You?

Letters of recommendation for any application provide insight into how others perceive you and how you present yourself to the people around you. It is important that when choosing a recommender, it is someone who knows you well and can speak highly and honestly about...

A Sense of Belonging

Hello to everyone reading. My name is Eyzel Torres and I am a senior at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A little about myself; I grew up in a suburb of Chicago with parents who drilled the idea of higher education into my being. This value in education comes...

Next Four Years Here We Go?

Getting my first college acceptance letter doesn’t exactly feel like it does in the movies anymore simply because you really get it in an email first. BUT, that doesn’t take away from the special moments you get from opening up the thick package in the...