If you would have told me four years ago that the next four years would include some of my greatest memories, I would not have believed you. At that time in August 2015, a mix of nervousness, excitement and terror…
My final year as a peer mentor has ended. Like the past three years, we spent the last week in class answering questions about majors, minors, GEs, and changing all of the above. I will admit, I felt more useful…
Unfortunately, I was unable to be in class for the Honors & Scholars Presentation, but in my time away, I was able to finish the internship presentation for week 12. I got lucky with my class placement this semester because…
Week 9 was an off-week, but everyone is still exhausted from midterms, projects, and the looming finals. Even though they’re still a few weeks away, finals are hanging over everyone’s heads because for the freshmen, this will be their very…
I’m feeling the class’ energy decrease a little as we hit the halfway point in the semester, but the new university resources assignment seems like it will lift them up a little: They get to walk around campus and find…
The very first time I talked about my transition challenge, I didn’t even talk about my real challenge: social anxiety. Instead, I talked about getting lost on campus. Now, with it being my second year of telling the actual story,…
College is starting to sink in for the freshmen, and grad school applications are starting to sink in for me. Though our lives are rapidly changing, at least the GEs haven’t changed in the past three years. It was also…
“It’s their problem; they should have to move out!” Ah, the joys of being a Resident Advisor. A resident thinks the roommate should move out because the conflict is obviously the roommate’s fault. The conflict that the resident never brought…
I got some odd stares when students started filing into the classroom. I asked how everything was going so far on the first day, and they sat there, probably trying to understand how someone this “mature” could be in a…
After returning home, I reflected more about my experiences abroad. I alluded to some of my challenges previously, including a few health problems and culture shocks, and I thought I’d talk about a couple of them here. As a disclaimer, I…
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