First Year

After ten weeks of bribing a spectacular army of readers (like Patrick O’Neill here) with snacks, I’ve signed almost 4,000 decision letters addressed to students who had applied Early Decision…

Spring Semester begins with a rather fierce winter! Temperatures around the low 20s are prevalent and snow is always ready to surprise the unsuspecting students in their morning walk to…

Hey everyone, Sorry for this blog being so delayed. I’ve been incredibly busy this semester, but it’s definitely looking to be even more fun and active for me than last…

I haven’t written in a while, but I have a number of reasons, or maybe excuses, for that. December was pretty dense. I survived my first period of final exams…

Fun Fact #1: The University of Rochester is about an hour and a half away from the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Fun Fact #2: The University of Rochester had no school…

To all of my readers who have recently received their acceptance letter, CONGRATULATIONS! I applied Early Decision last year and was accepted on December 15th, 2011. The problem with getting…

I managed to catch a video of the first real snowfall at UR for you all: Protip: When you don’t know what you want next Christmas, for your birthday, etc.,…

Hey guys, Sorry that it’s been so long since I’ve posted a blog, but I had NO idea the toll that finals would take on me. At Rochester, we have…

Just a quick glimpse at finals week at the University of Rochester. Some students choose to utilize different parts on our beautiful university campus.

This is what attending a top-tier university will make you think—that lengthy research papers are fun to write. And I will tell you that compared to sitting for three hours…

How do you know its finals season at the University of Rochester? It's when the Hoeing 2 lounge is full yet quiet at the same time, and on a closer…

The Eco-Clamshell sitting peacefully in Danforth Dining Hall   Back-to-back classes during lunchtime? Meetings during dinnertime? Is your  schedule so hectic that sometimes you can't find the time to grab…