I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while because our site doesn’t have that many blog posts about the international student experience. In fact, I applied to be a blogger because I wanted to share about my life as an international student from Vietnam at Amherst. However, I delay writing this post until…Continue Reading The International Student Experience At Amherst
My first two years of college, I didn’t think of myself as a “club person.” I wrote for The Student (student-run newspaper) semi-regularly for a while, hosted a radio show (which didn’t turn out to be as social an activity as I thought, even though you’re literally alone in a dark room by definition…), lived…Continue Reading Zü as My Project
Okay, so this one isn’t exactly Amherst-specific… but if we’re being honest, it is deeply relatable. At some point, we’ve all found ourselves in class — laptop open, brain slightly fried — and suddenly down a rabbit hole of Google searches that have absolutely nothing to do with the PowerPoint slide in front of us….Continue Reading Things I’ve Googled During Class Instead of Taking Notes
I’ve always loved school. Learning was my escape — my way of staying hopeful and focused, even when life felt chaotic. But if I’m being honest, I’ve always had a complicated relationship with numbers. So this blog is me being vulnerable, but also that even now that I am in college I dont have everything…Continue Reading Still Learning: My Journey Through Academic Setbacks
I would not talk to anybody online before arriving. I’d save the attempts at making friends for orientation and spend the summer with my hometown friends instead of online worrying about a social life that hasn’t started yet. I would split my first semester classes between humanities/social sciences and STEM. I’d take no more than…Continue Reading If I could do it over again
Hi readers! Welcome back! Sit back, relax, and enjoy hearing about what the end of the academic year is like at Amherst. Spoiler alert…it’s difficult, but it’s also a lot of fun. Finals season at Amherst is a busy time! It is a time of reaching finish lines for different activities including both academic and…Continue Reading Finals Season at Amherst
“On March 28, 2025, at approximately 12:50 p.m. local time, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck near Mandalay, Burma’s (Myanmar’s) second-largest city, home to 1.2 million people. By April 6, the earthquake had caused 3,471 deaths and injured 4,671 people, while 214 remain missing.” One of my best friends at Amherst is from Myanmar. Due…Continue Reading Fundraising for Myanmar Earthquake Relief
Hello everybody! It’s certainly been a long time, but I can explain. Since I last published a blog post, I’ve submitted my thesis, defended it, presented it to the department, and competed in Amherst’s 3 Minute Thesis contest. I’ve also begun to experience a lot of my lasts before graduating, including our last Wine and…Continue Reading Checking Back In
It’s almost the end of my first year at Amherst! Did everything go the way I expected? Well, not always. In this post, I hope to share some expectations I had of Amherst that ended not the way I thought. (Note: Since Decision Day was two days ago, I write this post with incoming students…Continue Reading Behind The Gates
Hi everyone! Welcome back to the blog. It truly feels impossible that after today, I will have completed my last full week of classes of my sophomore year. I think i’m actually in denial that exams start so soon. But anyways!!! In honor of the truly lovely weather we’ve been having, I wanted to provide…Continue Reading Springtime Shenanigans