Teacher Appreciation and Mother’s Day
Teacher Appreciation and Mother’s Day By: DeAnna Britton With Teacher Appreciation Day being May 4th and Mother’s Day being May 9th, I found it was time to reflect on the people who have made an impact on my life. First, I shall start by sharing my memories of my favorite teacher throughout school. Paula Beeler [...]
Balancing Holidays and Finals
The holidays are filled with hustle and bustle, especially for college students. Around the holiday season is when finals are. Not only do students have to worry about finals, but they have to worry about how they are getting home, shopping for presents and how they will manage their time once they are home. Some [...]
College Bound? Five Things You Need to Know
Written by DeAnna Britton, Relate Contributing Writer Over the past two-and-a-half years, I have learned a lot in college. Although academics are the main goal of college, I have often found myself learning much more than what they teach you in class. Here’s what I’ve collected: College isn’t so scary when you get used to [...]
Carrying Sports Skills From High School to College
Written by DeAnna Britton, Relate Contributing Writer One of the big questions I had to ask myself when I went to college was whether I wanted to play sports or not. I had played field hockey for five years and was captain my senior year. Field hockey was a big part of my life and I [...]
Perusing Paris
This summer, I studied abroad in Paris. I went for three weeks and then to Nice in the South of France for a week. After, two of my friends and I went to Italy and Spain for a week after the program was done. Paris was a city that taught me the essence of history. Being from [...]
No Fear…of the Unknown
My grandfather once told me in my time of need, to “never let anything scare you so much that you feel like you have to stop living.” This was right after 9-11 happened and I was traumatized by the television’s constant reminders that none of us were safe. The surprising part of this story is [...]
Culture Shock? Embrace the Change!
When I came to college, I experienced somewhat of a culture shock. I come from a small town in Maine and there isn’t a lot of diversity there. When I decided to go to New York for college, I knew I would be in a different environment but I didn’t know that I was going [...]
Facebook is your secret weapon
There are two opposite views on heading off to college and leaving high school friends behind. One camp is heart-broken. They write each other long, emotional goodbye letters and cry at each other’s graduation parties. The other camp shakes the dust from their feet, yells “Whoo-hoo I never have to see these people again!” and [...]
What I Wish I Knew about Parties before College
Here are a few things I wish I’d known about parties before I got to college. I’ll share them with you so you don’t have to learn them the hard way. 1. You don’t have to go out to parties every weekend. Shocking but true. If doing keg stands at frat parties or squishing together [...]
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