The Art of Bad Timing
Long distance relationships can be hard. They can be especially hard when you’re living with four roommates. On a typical Monday night,...
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Airports and Their Incessant Strangeness
Walking through liminal spaces is always unnerving. Airports, especially, and the accompanying airplanes, feel like incomplete experiences...
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Life Lessons & Takeaways: What I Learned From My First (Virtual) Quarter At UCLA
Starting your first year in college can be scary, but also really rewarding and eye-opening.
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What Is It Like To Be a College Freshman During A Pandemic?
How has the pandemic impacted new college freshmen? Read on to see the stories of three students as they begin college for the first time.
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Why I'm Thankful to Stay at Home Freshman Year
To me, a semester at home meant more time with the people I love, and for a year where I was snubbed of my final high school moments and the summer, this was the best news. But deep down, a semester simply wasn’t enough.
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Why I’m Actually Thankful For Starting College From Home
Everything has a silver lining, even remote learning!
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Life as a Queen’s Frosh: 1986 to Now
HC’s Alex shares stories of her mother’s time at Queen’s in 1986, and gives insight to her own experience as a frosh in 2020.
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Things I Wish I Knew My Freshman Year
College is tough, especially freshman year. So here's what I wish someone would've told me before my very first college adventure.
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How Jesus Found me in my Dorm Room
For many college students, giving your life to Christ and becoming a Christian sounds like the worst most boring thing that could ever happen to you. When you’re a freshman there are stars in your eyes. You’re most likely in a new city, in a new place and away from all authority so, naturally, your first priority isn’t exactly to live holy. You’re more so concerned about the next rave, party, event or society meet-up and I was no different. In my first year, I enjoyed going out, going to parties and “YOLO-ing” just as much as the next girl. But the thing is, I was never truly happy.
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Its Okay To Feel A Little Lost
College is a big, jumbled, confusing mess. And if you say otherwise, please teach me your ways. With that being said, I would like to send...
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How to Make the Most of Your Freshman Year
I think that college is intimidating whether you are a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior. I know that I am a junior and there are...
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How to Feel Connected to Your College When Your Freshman Year Is All Remote
Navigating classes, clubs and friendship over zoom is no small feat.
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A Letter to My Freshman Self
Venturing off on one's own to start their first year of college can be intimidating, to say the very least. Here's what a current college sophomore would tell her freshman self.
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Freshman Year Blues
It’s crazy to think that approximately this time last year, I was stressing over my Common Application and studying for my final ACT...
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From NJ to the Midwest: A Transition
The bagels are just not the same.
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What It's Like Starting College in a Pandemic
The end of high school and the start of college are online?! That must suck...or does it?
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4 Easy Tips I Wish I’d Known as a College Freshman
College can be quite daunting and stressful, especially for incoming students. I’ve been there. As a third year student reflecting on her...
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A Fresher’s Guidebook to Manipal
Edited by: Anushka Shrivastava If you're reading this, you are probably a fresher searching for tips to survive in Manipal (in that case,...
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A Junior’s 5 Takes on Freshman Year During COVID-19
Let’s be real: COVID-19 blows. There’s no question that a global pandemic changed everybody’s lives, but it also changed the experiences...
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Expectations of a College Freshman: 2020 Edition
College is not what I expected.
