Desde subsidios hasta préstamos hasta becas, el mundo de la ayuda financiera universitaria puede ser complicado e intimidante. Por suerte, hablé con Matt Mourovic el director de servicios financieros y servicio al cliente de la Universidad de Massachusetts Amherst, para traerte todas las respuestas que necesitas.

La vida de fraternidades y sororidades puede ser una parte esencial de la experiencia universitaria estadounidense. Por lo menos para mí, todo lo que sabía de las universidades estadounidenses era la existencia de las hermandades.

Choosing a major is not easy. There’s a lot of factors playing into your choice, from personal preference to career options, choosing a major can be a very personal decision. Here at the University of Massachusetts, we believe it’s important to open your mind and explore multiple options that will allow you to tailor your education to fit you perfectly. Take a look at what Joshua Badal-Rodrigues, a freshman microbiology and Portuguese double major, who hopes to use both his language and future medical skills to help increase medical accessibility to Portuguese-speaking communities, had to say.

No es ningún secreto que el COVID-19 ha dado la vuelta nuestras vidas. No solo parece que el mundo se ha quedado parado, sino que también nos ha forzado a cambiar la manera en la que vivimos nuestras vidas. Fue un cambio difícil y repentino, sino que también fue uno imposible.

Moving to the U.S. from Bolivia was an adventure for me. The one thing—besides my friends and family—I was sad to be leaving behind, was my Latinx community. Over in Bolivia, of course, I didn’t think of it as a Latinx community. In fact, it wasn’t until I came here that I realized that a lot of things intrinsic to me (not the least of them was language), were also an intrinsic part of Latinx culture. And so, I started to miss little things like greeting people with a kiss on the cheek or hearing a reggaeton song wherever I went (shout out to Blue Wall for playing reggaeton every once in a while).

It’s no secret that COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down. Not only has the world seemingly come to a halt, we’ve also been forced to reshape the way we live our lives. It was a sudden and difficult change, but it’s not an impossible one.

Studying is something I’ve always seen as doing while locked in my room, sitting at my desk, and suffering in silence (or loudly if the task was particularly frustrating). That’s how I basically lived during my first semester at the University of Massachusetts.

There’s a saying that says that there are two things that are unavoidable in life: taxes and death. The saying is true, but in my opinion, it lacks a third thing: notetaking.

Entrando a mi primer año era un estudiante de biología, y estaba más motivado que nunca a empezar mi carrera académica en el camino al campo médico. Sin embargo, como muchos otros estudiantes, mis pasiones e intereses cambiaron, y decidí cambiar mi carrera a operaciones y administración de información en la Escuela de Administración Isenberg.

We had to work on five different pieces on a range of topics throughout the semester, and one of them was writing about a public issue. Then the journalism gods intervened, and I found two of the most perfect sources I could’ve ever found.

2019 was probably one of the hardest years of my life.  

The year started with my mom passing away after a five-year battle with cancer. As is the usual with illnesses, we’d known the hardest was on its way, but that didn’t make it any less devastating.

I still remember the day I got my acceptance letter to the University of Massachusetts. I was living in Reston, Virginia at the time. It was a hot early summer day, and I was walking back from work to the bus stop, listening to some cheesy song about achieving dreams. 

Thanksgiving has always been a little bit of a myth to me. Having grown up in Bolivia, Thanksgiving was a thing I would see on TV, and not something real that people celebrated.

Dear freshman Xenia,

Our college journey is coming to an end pretty soon, can you believe it? At the risk of sounding like an old lady, I have to wonder where time went. These past four years have flown by, and it’s almost time we leave our safety net and begin the next part of our lives. But, am I truly me if I don’t go all sappy and retrospective about our time in college? (The answer is no, you know this, I know this, every person who’s ever known us knows this).  

On Saturday Nov. 9, the All-Campus Makerspace (AMS) at the University of Massachusetts hosted a DIY mini-airplane workshop.

The dreaded essay is one of the most important parts of a college application. They’re what make you stand out from the thousands of other applicants; they’re what make your college application your college application. But, no pressure, right?

The University of Massachusetts offers 90 majors housed in 9 schools and colleges. If you’re not entirely sure what you want to do, that number can be quite overwhelming.

I think that my job as a journalist is to inform as many people as I can on as many important things as I can. So as long as I get to do at least that, I think I can consider myself happy.

Kathy Roberts Forde is highly motivated by her students; whose success is just as important to her as her own.

“I think I’m motivated by student learning and student success, like seeing students, and working with students in whatever it is they care about and want to do, and when they succeed it just makes me feel really, really good. I feel at least as good about their success as I feel about my own success,” she says. 

After graduating high school, I was flooded with a million questions about what I wanted to do with my life. Every time I looked in the mirror, all I saw was one huge question mark where my face was supposed to be, much like high school seniors everywhere.   

The first decision I made had to do with timing. I wasn’t ready start a new life right away, so after multiple conversations with my parents, friends, and school counselor, I decided to take a gap year between high school and college.