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Category: Academics

by CaseyPosted onDecember 5, 2021December 5, 2021Academics

Jack of All Trades, Master of None

Some people have their lives figured out for them. They shoot straight as an arrow through grade school, college, and into the career they’ve always…

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by CaseyPosted onApril 4, 2020April 15, 2020Academics

How to Make College Decisions Without Visiting Campus

This was originally a piece I wrote for Empowerly, the college counseling company I work for, but somebody else wrote a very similar piece at…

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by CaseyPosted onMarch 29, 2020August 26, 2022Academics

Unique Swedish Words that Don’t Translate into English

I learned quite a few Swedish words while living in Sweden (on top of the swear words that every Swede I encountered thought appropriate to…

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by CaseyPosted onMarch 22, 2020September 13, 2021Academics

Graduating in the Middle of a Pandemic

January, 2018 In a lab class required for all life science majors at UCLA, we studied epidemiology. The experiment involved transferring bacteria through handshakes. One…

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by CaseyPosted onFebruary 2, 2020September 2, 2020Academics

Exercises in Style

As a freshman in college, I took my first creative writing class. We had an assignment to write a piece based off of Exercises in…

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by CaseyPosted onJanuary 27, 2020August 27, 2020Academics

What I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Neuroscience Major

As I was entering college, I was fascinated with the idea of this field of study with little knowledge as to what it means to…

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by CaseyPosted onOctober 24, 2019December 2, 2019Academics

Artists Who Died Before Their Fame: Anne Frank and Vincent Van Gogh

Two of the most popular attractions in Amsterdam are the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh Museum. I had the privilege of visiting both…

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by CaseyPosted onOctober 2, 2019September 20, 2020Academics

A Few Thoughts on Study Abroad

In class the other day, one of my professors asked me where I’ve been traveling. I told him that I went to Paris last weekend,…

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