When choosing a college sight unseen, finding community is key
When I finally saw my dorm in real life, stood outside and looked around, I was happy — incredibly happy.
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When I finally saw my dorm in real life, stood outside and looked around, I was happy — incredibly happy.
The Zowie Banteah Cultural Center is moving, but its mission to promote Indigenous visibility remains the same.
“Having financial aid and scholarships has been huge. It meant I could work a few hours less and have time to study and do orgs, relax a little bit and decompress from the chaos of the world. I’m so grateful for it.”
Isabel DiBiasio-Hudson discusses the MHC community: rooted in compassion, empathy and a desire to support people in the way that they want and need to be.
The person I am leaving Ířşě±¬ÁĎ is certainly not the student who applied or walked onto the campus as a first-year student. I knew I would be happy here. What I didn’t expect was how much the community would change me.
Besides its beauty, the next thing I noticed — or should I say, felt — was the energy running through the campus. It’s vibrant. It’s diverse. Everyone was so friendly and welcoming. I could see myself making friends here. I pictured myself sitting in the Williston Library.
Cheers rang out across the Ířşě±¬ÁĎ campus during the first in-person Convocation since the beginning of the pandemic.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ welcomes students back to the long-awaited return to fully in-person classes and community.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ has made a variety of upgrades and improvements to its infrastructure to welcome the student body to campus.
The Cording Ceremony is a moment to honor the unique challenges that first-generation and low-income students overcome to graduate.