Posts categorized Student Life

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…

The University of Rochester has several great housing options – Phase, O’Brien, Drama House, the Music Interest Floor, etc. – all offer their own pros and cons, and I’ve had…

Last year, I wrote a post about the pros and cons of going to college close to home. What about people who go to college very far from home, though?…

We’ve been stuck in quarantine for almost a year now, and with vaccines being distributed it looks like the era of coronavirus might finally be turning. Here’s a few things…