An Uneasy Start

A well-planned schedule will allow a student’s semester go smoothly and accomplishing everything needed on time. However, this did not happen to me at the beginning of my first semester at UC Berkeley. There were two phases for Cal students to sign up for classes, Telebears Phase 1 and Phase 2, and the first phase…

First Quarter

These first few weeks at Cal Poly Pomona have been fun, enlightening, and hard. I am currently taking general education classes and classes that have to do with my major, which is Urban and Regional Planning. It is so exciting and refreshing to take classes that are teaching me about the career I hope to…

“Homesickness”

As week three comes to a close, I am suddenly finding myself already preparing for midterms, but that’s the quarter system for you. I’ve been in Southern California for a month now, and it’s quite different from the bay, that’s for sure. Temperatures reaching 90-100 daily, and the feeling of a hot, stickiness coming over…

Really Like It Here

In the beginning, it was kind of scary coming to a new campus, full of new people and barely knowing anyone there, but when I was going through the process of the application and there was the application for EOP as well. Once I had completed both I was accepted and I remember that EOP…

Halfway There!

Ever since I’ve moved into my dorm, it finally sunk in that I’m officially in college. I’m no longer that high school/community college student. It is one singular thing now. I’m a student attending the University of California, Merced, pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology. Adjusting here came quicker than I realized. Maybe it was…