By Alec Maruki ’23 Networking is fundamental to early career success. The Team at RezRev assisted CofC students with videos and elevator pitches during The College’s recent career fair. Launchpad student Benjamine Cordova was one of those students. Check out his video below! Your browser does not support the video tag…
Category Archives: Student Experiences
Blog posts written by students for students
Oh the Places You’ll Go…
By Alec Maruki 23′ Students from the Office of Institutional Diversity’s Launchpad for Success program are on the move! The Dewberry Hotel hosted the cohort on October 17 for an off-campus site visit. The tour kicked off with students introducing themselves and sharing their majors and hometowns. From there, they learned about the hotel’s founder…
Time Management – Tips and Tricks for beating procrastination
For many students it can be difficult juggling a variety of different responsibilities they have at work, school, and at home. Sometimes it feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day for us to dedicate time to ourselves after taking care of our responsibilities. The constant balancing act can leave us feeling overwhelmed and…
3 ways to beat college burnout
By Solomon McKenzie 22’ The advice in the following post are offered independently by the author. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis of any sort, please contact CofC’s Counseling Center I’m sure I don’t need to state the obvious, but college can be a very stressful time. Even before Covid-19 pandemic and the…
Lift as you climb
By Solomon McKenzie 21’ The phrase “Lift as you climb” originates from civil rights author and advocate for women’s suffrage, Mary Church Terrell. She was one of the first African Americans to receive a college degree and throughout her career as a teacher and author she also fought for social just within her community and…
It’s all in who you know
By Solomon McKenzie 21’ If I had to pick a phrase that has stuck with me for my entire life it would be “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. It’s what my aunt told me after helping me receive an internship with a research company and it’s what my school mentor said…
From Provisional to Beyond! Graduate Assistantship
By: Taylor Holloway, ’19 My origin story is somewhat of a bumpy one. In high school, I would say that I was efficient but not someone that stood out of the crowd. I’ve always known I wanted to go to college, but I felt that I had limits in my ability. I wasn’t top…
Episode 4: Men of Color in Education
If you’ve considered a career in education, this episode is for you! Host Kim Gailliard catches up with students and staff from the College of Charleston’s Call Me MiSTER program to learn how they’re tackling the lack of diversity in educational leadership – especially among men of color. Guests featured are Dr. Anthony James…
Episode 3: People of Color in Green Movements
https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2021-1-24/158632569-44100-2-fd569d2b50c18.m4a Communities of color are gaining ground in the environmental justice movement. Host Kim Gailliard, ’18 catches up with CofC grad Sarah Nesbit, ’18 and her colleagues at the BlackOak Collective to learn how they’re doing their part to champion diverse voices in sustainability work. Mentioned in this Episode: Evergreen Action // Congressional Black Caucus Internship…
Marine Biology, Hearing Loss, & Always Saying Yes
By Brook Blosser, ’21 I stumbled across marine biology accidentally. When I applied to North Carolina State University during my senior year in 2014, I initially applied for the chemistry program. When it asked you to select your second choice of desired major, I picked marine sciences. Why not? I figured it seemed interesting enough,…