Posts categorized First Year

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…

Back in Rochester! After enduring one of the hottest summers in Korea, I'm looking forward to the chills in Rochester this semester. I usually come to school a week before classes…

Well, it has been a great summer. The volunteers are ready, the stage is set, all that's left is the performance. I'm confident that we will be able to provide…

It is really great to be all moved in back on the residential quad again. I am here already because I will be a Freshman Fellow for Gilbert 4 and…

So I know a lot of incoming freshman and prospective high school students see the terms Freshman Fellow, RA, GHR, D'Lions, Eco Reps, etc. thrown around by staff and current…

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…

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…

Hello world! Today I post about the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative program which I had the pleasure to run sound for. During this program, current high…

Hey everyone, I just wanted to check-in during the summer to give you a little information about a few new developments at the U of R during the last semester.…