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Our Hearts Ever HOLd You, NC State: My Experience as an Orientation Leader
Orientation. It is our first introduction to life at NC State and, for many, it is nerve-racking.
Growing Into My Truth
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” – Steve Jobs
Looking Back, Leaping Forward: To the Class of 2019
Now a full year into my freshman year at NC State, I find it hard to accurately describe how much my life has changed—how different I am now than I was last August.
Embracing Confusion
From preschool to high school we have been conditioned to a pretty standard daily routine. Wake up too early, go to school, participate in any extracurriculars, have fun with friends/hobbies, stay up too late, repeat. Then comes the game changer: […]
Friends and Family
This semester has brought many new events into my life. I am in my new major and I absolutely love it. That being said, I have also had to deal with many new things such as my family growing and […]
Updates From Uni
I stepped off the plane onto the open tarmac, greeted by an overcast sky and the glint of a sun struggling to escape out into the open. I could hardly believe it. We had made it. We had arrived in […]
A Letter to NC State
It’s always exciting to begin a new semester. It means new classes, new friends, new study groups, and a new routine for each day. I find it refreshing to know that the start of each semester is almost synonymous to […]
Courage 2019
Madeline Yun ‘T19 focuses on courage for 2019 and gives her favorite tips for student-parents at NC State.
Tales of a Tugboat: The Little Things
Hello, my name is Trent Hooley, and I am going to cut right to the chase.
Life as a Transfer Student
There is only one way that I can describe what it is like transferring to NC State: an emotional roller coaster. There were parts that I enjoyed and other parts that I didn’t enjoy so much. However, transferring to NC […]