New York City is decorated like a postcard, Starbucks has introduced their red holiday cups and Christmas music has seeped its way onto every station on the radio. But one obstacle stands between Christmas break and us: finals week. The bliss of Thanksgiving break is starting to fade away with the incoming pile of papers and tests to start preparing for. An increase in stress … Continue reading The Freshman Files: The Final Straw
The moment we have all been waiting for, or counting down to, is just around the corner. After three months of what seemed like never-ending reading, writing and Google-ing, we are finally going home. While an increase in personal space and a miraculously clean bathroom rank high on the list of reasons we are itching for the holiday weekend, what we are really looking forward … Continue reading The Freshman Files: Home Sweet Home
Right about now we are all experiencing a bit of a mid-semester funk. Maybe it’s the fact that your midterm grades are out and they’re not so good. Maybe your 8 a.m. class is starting to get to you and your beauty sleep. Or maybe your fantasy football team is zero and eight on the season. Whatever the reason may be, one thing is sure … Continue reading The Freshman Files: Halloween
Public transportation is one aspect of New York City that every student at Manhattan College loves to hate. On one hand, some say we have it all. With one swipe of our metro cards we can be transported to anywhere we want in the greatest city in the world. The convenience is marveling and the inexpensiveness is unparalleled. What we love about the subway or … Continue reading The Freshman Files: MTA: It’s Complicated
Walking into my doctor’s office in August for my yearly physical I was in perfect health and ready to be shipped off to Manhattan College. So when my physician handed me a pack of Kleenex and warned me about college breeding as many germs as a kindergarten classroom, I shrugged it off. Except now I find it almost impossible to walk around campus or sit … Continue reading The Freshman Files: Common Cold
October is finally here. While there is nothing like fall in New York, we can’t enjoy the crisp autumn weather just yet. Midterms are just around the corner, as well as the potential loss of our sanity. Midterm week is a bi-annual occurrence where caffeine is your best friend and the library is the coolest place to be on a Friday night. Juniors and seniors … Continue reading The Freshman Files: Midterm Mania
As students who are new to the college scene we are experiencing our own “Eat, Pray, Love.” Except, instead of traveling to the French countryside or strolling through the streets of Florence, dining in cafes and five-star restaurants, we are navigating our way through Locke’s Loft, the Kelly Commons or local, off-campus delis and pizza places for our food awakening. Suddenly we regret taking all … Continue reading The Freshman Files: Finding Food
College is like one big circus. All around us there are things to see and watch and take part in. There are classes to go to, friends to hangout with, sports to play and sleep to catch up on. How can we possibly juggle it all? As freshman we want it all. We want to get good grades, join a bunch of clubs, be an … Continue reading The Freshman Files: Balancing Act
What does it really mean to “cut the cord”? My first few days at school I met Zhaku and Kris, two freshmen from Albania who came to Manhattan College for our elite engineering program and the opportunity to go abroad. They explained how they said goodbye to their family at the airport and flew over 4,000 miles to a city they’ve never been to before. … Continue reading The Freshman Files: Cutting the Cord
