Senior Retrospective
While Vassar was indeed my first choice, I designated it as such more out of a sense of desperation than any real connection to the school.
Senior Retrospective
My name is Maya Casilda Acevedo and I was born in Nyack, New York, right down the river from here. I'm an American Cultures major, focusing on Native American Studies and Environmental Studies.
Senior Retrospective
Although I have always loved Vassar, I have never appreciated it more than during my senior year.
Senior Retrospective
When I arrived at Vassar as a freshman, I had no idea who I really was or what I wanted to do with my life, let alone my time in college.
Senior Retrospective
As I write my final column for The Miscellany News, I find myself conflicted about whether or not I am finally ready to leave Vassar.
Senior Retrospective
It hit me then. Like a caffeine crash, out of the blue. I realized exactly what would be happening in less than two weeks.
Senior Retrospective
I'm known these days for the 420 characters of wit I display with my Facebook statuses, I figured I should stick to short forms.
Senior Retrospective
I cannot express in one little essay how much I have learned at this college. Looking back now, the girl who arrived as a freshman now seems like a child, and I feel extremely fortunate to have grown up on this campus.
Senior Retrospective
Aside from the wise words of my coaches and teammates, disappointment and failed-expectations have been my greatest teachers at Vassar.
Senior Retrospective
As I have tried to put together the Sesquicentennial Vassarion, my last year at Vassar has been full of nostalgia.
Senior Retrospective
The senior thesis. For some students it is a requirement of their major, for others it is an optional but necessary step toward earning honors within their departments
Senior Retrospective
Four years ago, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I was going to study history and get my teaching certification, after which I would be a high school teacher.
Senior Retrospective
I joined The Miscellany News at the very beginning of my freshman year, and I've been involved in over eighty issues since then. This retrospective, however, is actually the first Miscellany article with my name in the byline.
Senior Retrospective
Reader, my reminiscence is not really all that useful to you. I instead leave you with some instruction that may truly serve you: how to write an English paper.
Senior Retrospective
I am going to preface this retrospective by admitting that I am currently using it as a means to procrastinate writing the final paper of my undergraduate career. Take that in whatever way you'd like.
Senior Retrospective
Vassar is a place where I learned far less about biochemistry, and far more about myself than I could have ever anticipated.
Senior Retrospective
The Swim Team has served as the great constant in my Vassar career. It has always been there for me through thick and thin.
Senior Retrospective
When I signed up to be a tour guide, I thought it would be a fun way to share my love for Vassar with others. Little did I know it would be that and more.
Senior Retrospective
I began Vassar with the self-mandate that I would never again be involved in as many activities, clubs, and extra academic classes as I had been in high school. Whoops.
Senior Retrospective
It's been almost four years since I became Mads Vassar.
Senior Retrospective
It might surprise people who know me well, but I will dearly miss Vassar. I don't think they'd be surprised if I merely said I loved the education I've gotten here.
Senior Retrospective
Who am I? A stereotypical question, by all means, but one that I feel has a particular centrality to my time here at Vassar.
Senior Retrospective
There's this strange thing that happens to you at Vassar. You wake up one morning and you feel old. That sounds silly, I know: I'm only 21.
Senior Retrospective
Looking back on my time at Vassar College, I am filled with gratitude for my time spent as a member of the Crew Team and for most recently having the honor to serve as Captain.
Senior Retrospective
During my second week as a freshman at Vassar, my new friend Molly asked me if I wanted to go on a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. with her and a campus organization I had never heard of before called Operation Donation.
Senior Retrospective
"Who would win in a fight: five duck-sized lions or a lion-sized duck?"
Senior Retrospective
Honestly, I find my initial reasons for "choosing Vassar" somewhat obsolete and my qualms quite trivial.
Senior Retrospectives
I would start by saying I just finished a take home final exam for Paul Kane's Contemplations in the American Landscape course (which as many people as possible should take.
Senior Retrospective
Last April, I received an email that I'd been waiting for since I joined Vassar College Enterainment (ViCE) the first week of my freshman year.
Senior Retrospective
Freshman year, I pored over the back catalogue of This American Life. Sophomore year, it was Philosophy Bites.
Senior Retrospective
"Process" is a word we throw around a lot at the Vassar College Writing Center.
Senior Retrospective
I can't imagine having gone anywhere else. Vassar has been the perfect environment for me both academically and socially, and has given me so many opportunities to be engaged in things both inside and outside the classroom.
Senior Retrospective
I know this sounds cliché, but it's true: your four years at Vassar are going to go by so fast, you honestly won't know where the time went.
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