College is hard, especially in a new environment and possibly a new city. Even though the University of Rochester is not that big, it’s a significant transition from high school.…

8:45 a.m. My alarm goes off, and I blearily emerge from a cocoon of blankets to jump up and silence it. I’m not blessed with being a morning person, but…

Like many other students in the class of 2020, I initially struggled to adjust to university life. Orientation and most first-year events were moved online due to COVID, and all…

As a way to better understand how to write a great application supplement, it’s important first to define the difference between the personal statement and the application supplement. These styles…

If you have taken any time looking at the University of Rochester’s humanities departments you’ll see that there are several different areas of study. Full of programs, professors, libraries, even…

It’s September so you know what that means: college application season has arrived! As you are narrowing down your list of schools and sending out your applications, those letters of…

Maybe you are a person entirely engrossed in history and you can’t stop visiting museums. Maybe the class “Science, Magic, and the Occult” sounded appealing to you. Maybe you wanted…

This past summer I traveled to Bermuda and worked as a research assistant on an archeological dig run by the University of Rochester’s History Department. I, along with several University…

Sophomore year I lived in Douglass Leadership House (DLH). A group and house I was sure at the time everyone knew about, until I actually left it. When I discovered…

Three years ago, when I first walked across the River Campus (I know, I’m old). One of the first things I heard about the city of Rochester was, “Don’t go…