Finding the Fit

Finding the Fit: 24 and Overboard

Finding the Fit: 24 and Overboard

I took a deep breath when the clock struck 12 and 2014 began.  I knew that this year would be different.  Besides the fact that I'm turning 25, which is scary in its own right, the spring would bring news of where the rest of my life was going.  School for the fall...

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Finding the Fit: 24 and Overboard

Finding the Fit: Lizzie Bennett

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a large college in possession of a good rating must be in want of a student. Although Mrs. Bennett urged Lizzie to marry every time they met at the breakfast table or sat together knitting, my mother has been talking to me...

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Finding the Fit: 24 and Overboard

Finding the Fit: Cali Boy

Hi friends. I am a 19 year old community college student in California. I will be applying to universities for the Fall of 2014 and am preparing applications now (as a TAG student). I have decided to apply to mostly UC campuses, as well as a few CSU campuses.  After...

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Finding the Fit: 24 and Overboard

Finding the Fit: Driving Into The Future

The research of different colleges has felt like an ongoing process throughout high school. Narrowing down and focusing the schools I ultimately want to go forward in pursuing applications for has challenged me, though. I often feel so tempted to just pick the same...

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Finding the Fit: 24 and Overboard

Finding the Fit: 24 and Overboard

I used to joke that college would be the best 10 years of my life, but somehow 6 years later that joke isn't so funny anymore. Back in the fall of 2007, I was a wide-eyed college freshman: lost, dazed, and confused. I knew I had to take the basics: math, English,...

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