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Nina | April 3, 2017
This year, for the first time in college, I decided to take a Spring Break adventure. I first thought about going to a beach somewhere, but after discussing options with my friends, we decided tha...
Nina | March 17, 2017
I won’t lie to you: my time at Penn has been very difficult. I have endured many struggles here, and at times I’ve felt very lost. My first blog post was a description of how hard it was for m...
Nina | March 8, 2017
We’re proud of our bloggers for the personal stories they choose to share.  The topic of this essay, loss of a loved one in college, may be triggering for some, and we’d encourage anyone ...
Nina | August 18, 2016
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “We must be our own before we can be another’s.” I’ve become really absorbed in the idea of self-exploration recently. I’ve been interested in, most importan...
Nina | April 13, 2016
Sometimes you just need to sit on a bench. You have to stop walking. You have to stop looking without seeing. Sometimes you have to walk into Ben & Jerry’s and spend five dollars on two s...
Nina | April 7, 2016
It’s about that time of the semester when you look at your busy schedule and realize that it… is ending? In three weeks?? Classes ending?!? I know you’re probably as shocked as I am, conside...