As my summer working with the Harvard First Generation Program comes to a close, I am realizing I’ve spent a lot of time in blog posts, newsletters, and on social media reflecting on my freshman year experiences. Tonight I’ll take the T (subway) to Riverside...

The Latinx Community: Mi Comunidad

Part 2 of 2 - Sophomore Year

Last week, you read about my first year on campus. Although it was a challenging one, the support system I had from the Latinx community was incredible!...

Growing up, I always had aspirations to work in the health professions, more specifically to become a neurosurgeon. Throughout middle school and high school, I had always enjoyed science classes and was particularly fascinated by how the brain worked. Thus, I purposefully elected to enroll...

When people think about transitioning to college, they are usually thinking of the process of moving-in to college and being new to the environment. Not a lot of people think about what the first time you go home would feels like after settling into college....

I took two years of Spanish before coming to college, and then three semesters of French after coming here, but what I didn’t realize was that there was a third language I would have to learn outside of the classroom: the language of Harvard. One...