Posts categorized First Year

Dateline: Saturday, May 4, 10:40 p.m. at JFK Airport, New York City: “Now boarding rows 15 and higher…” Thus began the beginning of the end of another spring travel season.…

This past weekend, Colleges Against Cancer at Rochester held their annual Relay for Life. For those of you who aren't familiar with Relay, it is an all-night long campaign with the…

One aspect of Greek life that is often overlooked is the dedication that many Greek organizations have to philanthropy. Since I started pledging at Sigma Phi Epsilon, I have become…

Now that Rochester has experienced warm enough weather for me to have worn shorts for a week, I figure it’s about time I talked about my spring break. (And because…

Written by Emily Cihon Fehnel, Director of Campus Programs, Admissions Have you ever considered participating in a summer program at a college or university? Here are some reasons why you…

When I was originally posting on the Class of 2016 Facebook group, I wasn’t planning on looking for a roommate. I wanted to let fate decide where and with whom…

As I’ve mentioned in my other posts, I decided to rush this past January and I'm pledging Sigma Phi Epsilon. In my rushing post and now, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND if…

If you couldn’t tell from my article, "Accepted? Time to crush it," I believe that the time to take action is always NOW. Why wait until tomorrow when you can start…

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I was involved in numerous extracurricular activities last semester. Part of the reason why I had time for all that was the approach to…

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…