Academics

This strange thing called time flies by at a pace you cannot catch up with. But some things just don't change whether be it at age nine or nearly twenty…

Today’s guest blogger for our “New Major Blog Series” is Oladoyin Oladeru ’13. Ola writes about discovering a passion for epidemiology and understanding the worlds need for strong public health…

Starting off our "New Major Blog Series" is Tzvia Berrin-Reinstein '13 of Newton, MA. She writes about taking advantage of the Rochester Curriculum and discovering a new major from that process.…

Before high school, I was never exposed to the scientific world of research. I’ve been learning the sciences for as long as I remember but there was no research involved.…

Flashback to late 2009 . . . somewhere in October/November I had been tirelessly filling out college applications and simultaneously trying to survive the International Baccalaureate (perhaps tackling calculus and…

With Actor Daniel Dae Kim. (I'm on his right side with the blue tote bag.) The US Embassy American Center in Seoul hosts a youth forum called 'Real People Talking'…

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I've been home in the US for just over a week now and it's been strange, to say the least! At first it was pleasantly overwhelming to see my family…

I never thought that I’d still be at Rochester in 2012.  Honestly, I had no idea what I would be doing when I arrived at Rochester in the fall of…

Most high school students think their identity crisis is going to end once they're in college, but the confusion actually lingers. You have to choose your major, decide where you're…

It's the end of June, so the good news is I'm officially done with all academic commitments for the semester! I'm a senior! (wait… is this good news?!) The bad…

It's well above 100 degrees, with the sun shining down on me fiercely as I sit outside on my balcony writing my first blog post of the 2012 summer! Yes,…