Posts categorized Academics

Seeing as it's mid-October, I will fully admit that it took me an embarrassingly long time to jump back on the blogging horse once I got to school this fall.…

Classes have been going for a while now, and I’ve found them to be incredibly interesting, and the workload has been manageable. My professors have been quite inspiring as they…

Jon Burdick writes the fourth part of a four-part series (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) on Rochester’s new “test flexible” stance for undergraduate admissions. Rochester readers review testing as something…

Hey, everybody! My name is Pedro Pablo Vallejo Ramirez, I am an international freshman here at the University of Rochester. I was born in Bogota, Colombia, but when I was…

Hi, everyone! My name is Heather Alico and I am a senior, brain and cognitive science (BCS) major. My focus in BCS is on neurodevelopment and language. I hope to…

Hello there, Welcome to what promises to be an eventful semester. It is great to experience a little bit of a campus whose liveliness stems from the activities of its…

Today's guest post in the New Major Blog Series comes from Venessa Simpson '14.  Venessa writes about being on campus for the discovery of a new major and deciding it was the…

Every semester I tell myself I'm going to have a more chill schedule, take the "normal" amount of credits and not get too over-involved. It literally never works. I started…

A bright sunny day on the 22nd of August, 2012 in Rochester, NY . . . The campus was abuzz (quite literally with all the bees around!) with excitement to…

Today's continuation of the New Major Blog Series is written by Emma Caldwell '13 of Webster, NY. Health, Behavior and Society: A New Outlook at the University of Rochester “What do you want…