Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: All roads of personal growth lead to Rome
Since coming back from my study abroad semester in Rome, Italy, I have spent the last few months dwelling on the experience I had...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Everything changes and nothing remains still
When I was little, I had extremely strict rules and expectations for my future: be a computer engineer like my father, start a nonprofit...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Ask yourself, why not?
Every morning before middle school, my mom would say to me: “Be kind, be courageous and don’t mumble.” Much of my college experience has...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: A love letter to shared spaces
I grew up an only child, and it is safe to say that I came to college with a fear of shared spaces — communal bathrooms,...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to say ‘yes’ when you want to say ‘no’
My eye color and eye for photography are not the only things my father passed down to me. He also instilled in my growing...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to hold on when you want to let go
Nobody wants to go to college with their older brother. No younger sibling wants to continue enduring the constant comparisons to him, risk running...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to engage again, after all this time
Last year, during the very beginning of the plague, The Occidental published a series called “Letters From,” in which dispersed Occidental students wrote about...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to channel fear through rugby
I am a fairly fearful person. I'm afraid of heights, going to the dentist and getting my period while wearing white pants. There are...
