Welcome back! Now that I am well into my sophomore year, I have had time to reflect on some of the biggest changes that students experience transitioning into college. One of the most prominent changes is experiencing loneliness or just being alone on campus. I am here to tell you that being alone at times…Continue Reading Learning How to be Alone at College
If you are reading this, you must keep what I am sharing with you a secret. Most Amherst College students are unaware that Valentine Dining Hall (Val) has a secret menu. But I will share this menu with you all, so you can enjoy Val to its fullest when you become students here. I call…Continue Reading Valentine Dining Hall Secret Menu
Hi readers, I’m officially done with freshman year and want to reflect on my experiences at Amherst College thus far. I’m grateful for so much at Amherst, and yet there are some things I wish I had done differently! Thanks for reading my last blog of the semester 🙂 As always, please email me with…Continue Reading Farewell to Freshman Year
Spoiler: It’s not glamorous. It’s just chaos. You know what they don’t tell you when you’re moving into college? That moving out is a full-blown emotional, logistical, and physical disaster. Right now, as I write this, everything I own is basically sitting in a pile on my dorm room floor. Clothes, notebooks, half-used candles, those…Continue Reading The Truth About Moving Out of Your First-Year Dorm
Hello hello! Welcome back to the blog. And, welcome to my last blog post of the semester!! Time really flies 🙁 But anyway, it is currently finals season here at Amherst College, which means that all of us are going justtt a little bit crazy. In honor of this kooky time of the year, I…Continue Reading Tips and Tricks to Stay Sane During Finals…Or Maybe Just Embrace the Insanity?
Hi readers, Are you wondering what college students wear on a daily basis? What are some closet essentials? When coming to college, I was worried about having too many clothes and not having enough at the same time. Here are some things I brought/wish I had that are important. You should bring many other clothing…Continue Reading A College Student’s Closet
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
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