Posts categorized Student Life

University Health Service Building (Oct. 2021)   Although it can be intimidating to reach out for help, finding a safe environment to open up can be an extremely valuable way…

Rush Rhees Library at sunrise during Meliora Weekend, 2021   At any stage of life, taking care of your mental health is imperative. However, with all the responsibilities that come…

How does one party in the age of COVID? As we enter our fourth, and I’m praying our last, partially distanced/masked/hybrid semester, I see people all around me struggling to…

Photo of Wilson Quad taken by my roommate, Lucy Lin ’22, on our first day back on campus!   After studying remotely since March 2020, when I returned as a…

I’m lucky to have a public bus stop only a block from my house! The pandemic has slowly been easing over the past few weeks. Many restaurants, cafes, bookstores, malls,…

If you’re a coffee shop fanatic like me who is there for the coffee as much as I am there for the atmosphere, then I have the five best coffee…

A view from Eastman Quad in Jan. 2018 (before I was officially a Yellowjacket!) Here at the University, our motto “Meliora” speaks to our mission of each person striving to…

Nervous about your first semester? Wondering what are the best ways to come out of your first semester on top? From a fellow student nearly done with my second semester…

There are a lot of considerations that go into deciding which college to attend, and dietary restrictions can be one of them. If you’re vegan and don’t want to give…

I might be a little biased as a French major, but I think all the cool opportunities in the Humanities at Rochester deserve a little more buzz. So I tasked…