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My Pre-College Experience And Undying Love For Rochester

It has been rumored that if I were to get a cut, I would in fact bleed blue and yellow. People often ask me when my love for University of…

Home, Sweet Home

Buying toothpaste never seemed like it had the potential to be a horrendously overwhelming experience. That is, until I tried doing it fewer than twenty-four hours after coming back from…

Imagining and Managing Your Future

This July will be my third year teaching "Imagining and Managing Your Future." I am very excited to be once again in the classroom for two weeks with high school students…

A Year in T-Shirts

Now that I’ve been home from college for over a month, I (and my mother) would like to say I’ve fully unpacked. And while it may seem unbelievable that it…

Senior Week Festivities

Although it may seem like a very long time before you are a senior in college, I promise you the time will fly. How can it not? You're having the…

Successes and Failures of my Second Semester

Photo: Me having a blast on Dandelion Day with some of my new friends and brothers! Sorry for the delay with the blogs; it’s been an incredibly hectic second semester.…

A Trip on the “Bee” Train

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.…

Declining Overload! How to Spend Remaining Meal Plan Balance

Contrary to popular belief among the Rochester student community, at the end of the semester, upperclassmen with overflowing declining balances do exist! Whether you get too much take-out or just…

4 Suggestions for a Great College Experience

After every semester I, like many students, take the time to look back at the semester and see how it went. What went well, what failed, what could have gone…

Campus Play: “Bang Bang You’re Dead”

Recently at the University of Rochester, a group of students (including some of my close friends) got together and organized the production of "Bang Bang You're Dead," a one-act play…

UR Relay For Life!!

Many people know of the American Cancer Society and their Relay for Life event that takes place in multiple locations. Well, UR is one of the annual locations that throws…

Relay for Life, Rochester

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…