Dear First Years, welcome to college life, and, more importantly, Scripps life!
Read MoreThe First Year Experience: In the Rearview Mirror
Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the two-week-long ride of the prospies this year.
Read MoreThe First-Year Experience: Bad Blood
There are a lot of constants in life. One of them is conflict. I have always referred to March and November as the conflict months. All of the cracks start to show through, and the things you once found entertaining and fun suddenly make you want to bang your head into a wall.
Read MoreThe First-Year Experience: The Bubble
Some day, I plan to write a book that contains all of the things that people have told me that have turned out to be false. The most important section would be unintentional falsehoods. For example, when I was touring colleges, almost every tour guide told me that their school was “super close to downtown” and that getting to the nearest big city was incredibly easy and something that was done every weekend.
Read MoreThe first year experience: It's fall!
Fall and fall and fall and fall.
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