By Dr. Michael Jarvis, Pre-College instructor for “Bermuda: Digging Through the Social History of the Atlantic“ Indiana Jones? Lara Croft? Amateurs! Come learn how historical archaeology is really done through…
Hello! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas break! Welcome back to Sophie’s UR lecture! For regular decision applicants, now is the most anxious stage during the admissions process: the waiting…
2015 is here and I can say with confidence that I have experienced more changes in the last four months than in the past eighteen years of my life. I…
Read Part I: Know the True Nature of Your Enemy (In This Case, the Common App Essay!) So now that you understand what the Common App is about, and how you…
It’s the middle of November, and this means different things to different people; for some, it may mean Thanksgiving, changing colors of leaves, quickly approaching winter (perhaps too quickly), or…
Six or so weeks into the fall semester, we students get to bask in the glory of a four-day weekend known as fall break. We’ve soldiered through enough papers, exams,…
Hello! My name is YooJung, and I'm a freshman interested in majoring in film and media studies. I was born in Seoul, South Korea, and lived there for a while…
Fall is fast approaching, and along with the calm of the falling leaves comes a certain degree of stress for high school seniors. The Common Application/Universal College App looms ominously…
Many of you are seniors in high school, and now I’m a senior in college! I cannot help but think about being lazy. It’s so hard to be motivated because…
Networking session in the Munnerlyn Atrium, Goergen Hall. Orientation week has been crazy—you’ve met so many people (and you’ve forgotten most of their names), you haven’t slept more than…