Over the weekend, I got the opportunity to attend a national fundraising awareness campaign hosted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My classmates and I were there not only to join the walk but also to aid in the activities and stands provided. We helped with the small Stewarts ice cream stand they had, handing out ice cream to everyone who wanted some. The walk itself was a small struggle, not only because it was cold outside but also because it was raining very hard. But

To end my day today, I got to go bowling with a new group of students visiting from Denmark. To say it got competitive fast would be an understatement! We played for two rounds, taking a break between turns to eat pizza and get to know each other better. While there were no girls on the trip this time, the boys were very talkative and entertaining.

Today, I got to attend our school’s guest speaker, Dr. Ulcé Blackstock. She came to discuss her career in medicine and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system, as well as the different aspects of her book "Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine". I am overjoyed to have been an attendee for this guest speaker and to hear about her experience as a Black physician, since her experiences may soon be my own reality. At the end of her t

Today, a few classmates and I got the opportunity to help the New York State Museum with their Rock and Fossil Fun Fair. A fair made to young kids to “Mine for minerals, forage for fossils, experiment with a river replica, and more” while also being able to take rocks of their own to the Museum and have them identified! I was in the Ice Age Section, where I answered any questions kids had and even taught them about what the Ice Age was like! Did you know that the last major i

Today was quite the eventful day! After class, I hung out with the BOCES Students (Students who are enrolling in a Specialized High School Pathway to help them earn college credits). While they were a very loud group of kids, it was a semi-relaxing break from schoolwork as we all ate pizza and played Pictionary. Later that day, I attended a panel discussion hosted by a dear friend of mine, Fallon Greenway, where she discussed the core financial foundations everyone should kno

Today, my classmates and I had the opportunity to visit Yale University and experience what it’s like for students there! While the weather wasn't the best, I got to take a tour of the campus and have lunch with official Yale Students. All of whom were in different majors and had vastly different experiences, the admission coordinators also joined us during the forum to explain the transfer process and answer any questions the students could not.

My first semester of college is definitely one that I will never forget. I met a ton of new people and got to experience so many new things, like going blonde for the first time! With this being my first year of college, I was definitely in an environment full of different types of people, which really helped me understand how differently people are raised. Attending a Community College rather than a Four-Year school is, for lack of better words, isolating. Many of the studen