The world is a big place filled with sound and actions, constant distractions rivaling to claim a person’s attention. With this giant barrage of diversions hammering daily on my senses, I find it more than therapeutic to retreat to a quieter place to recharge where I can take a breath for a moment to process the chaos around me. It is in this sort of place that I find myself most at peace. In my freshman year of high...

For the past year I have devoted myself to plotting my course for the future knowing the largest and most immediate decision I would be making was my choice of college. I poured over my list of recommend colleges, interested colleges, random colleges I had never heard of in my life just to see if any offered the necessary guidance to aid me on my path. Being an avid reader and a lover of stories, I already know I want...

One of the essay prompts available for the Common App for my year was to describe a place I felt comfortable. No matter what the prompt may be, for every college entrance essay there is only one topic you should be talking about. Yourself. They may ask about your favorite pet bunny, or awesome super powers you may want to have, but their focus is not on the answers but rather what the answers reveal about you. I tried to...

One of the most important things you should do upon entering college is find a non-academic extracurricular...

Before the semester began, I assumed that the best courses were those with the most interesting descriptions. This assumption proved quite...

I took a very laid back approach to all of my applications in an attempt to keep stress levels at...

My high school had an amazing college admissions office filled with counselors who knew the ins and outs of the entire process. Always pay attention to the advice given by professionals, but at the same time relax and choose the path...

Nothing in the world was more nerve racking than my interview with an alum from my top choice college. I arrived over 30 minutes early to a local Starbucks and was too jittery to do any more than bounce my knee and grasp desperately onto my cup of rapidly cooling tea. I had thoroughly...

The "Why us" question can be a bit difficult to tackle, but there is a simple way to approach it. What I did was browse through the course offerings and found something to get exited about. I am...

Summer is the little bit of downtime that comes before a storm of busy insanity, so do then what you will not have time to do later. Get some money: college is more expensive than just tuition, and there will be a...

University of Pennsylvania is located right inside Philadelphia, so campus life revolves around the city. I love the ease...

In the end out of the three schools I applied for University of Pennsylvania won because it seemed to have everything I was looking for. After living in the suburbs for my entire life, I want to try surviving in...