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Today's guest post is written by Samir Hummad, Banaa Scholar, University of Rochester, Class of 2015 I could hardly believe it when I got my admission letter to come to the University…

This past weekend, I was able to go on a weekend retreat with my fraternity and it was amazing! Although the U of R has a beautiful university campus, it…

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…

T'ai Chi: Explorations in Qi (DAN 211)  Tuesday is my busiest day of the week. On Tuesday mornings, I pretty much stuff all my books into a sports bag and rush…

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…

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…

I received a thoughtful email with questions from an enterprise in China: “Our organization [works] with UK universities [focusing] on key personal skills such as problem solving, teamwork, communication, improving…

One of the biggest events of the fall semester is Delta Upsilon Fraternity’s Dance 4 Charity, held in U of R’s Strong Auditorium. It’s the campus’s only competition between the…

A major difference that I notice on a daily basis between America and my part of the world is smoking, or the relative absence of it around. At least when it…

Pumpkins catapulted and blasted into the sky, a game of Tetris used bananas as control pads, a cappella groups sang all-time classics. It certainly doesn't sound like an average meeting…