by Believe in Students | Oct 31, 2023 | Blog
Although I concede that everyone’s life is unique, those who know me well would agree that my upbringing was a little extraordinary. I belong to an average middle class family, the mother of which was a nurse at the local hospital, the father of which was a...
by Believe in Students | Oct 31, 2023 | Blog
Dearest Professors, I am writing the following letter to you because I owe you the gift of communicated knowledge.You have been gracious, understanding, ingenious, and inventive in a time of great uncertainty and upheaval. You have done your very best to pivot, adapt,...
by Believe in Students | Oct 31, 2023 | Blog
During the month of June 2018, I enrolled as a student at Mt. Hood Community College. I was filled with great excitement and ambition of the new opportunity. Yet, I was also overcome with fear and anxiety as I had been a 15-year-old first-generation college student...
by Believe in Students | Oct 31, 2023 | Blog
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, Delaware County Community College has been the village that turned this man into a graduate. I entered the institution after years of battling mental health and substance use disorder. I am thankful to say that I am...
by Believe in Students | Oct 31, 2023 | Blog
I would wait until the evening, when it was pleasantly cool and dark enough, to slip unnoticed into the other dorms and make my way to recycling stations on each floor. I’d gather the glass bottles in a big garbage bag pilfered from my own dorm’s kitchen, and when I...
