Scholarships

(These are all of the Cox Exploratory, Engagement, Legacy, Research, and Access Scholars from September 2012) I am a Cox Exploratory Scholar I had been awarded the IU Cox Exploratory scholarship last spring, and I have never been so thankful for a reward even after only one of my eight semesters in...

College Freshman to High School Senior During my senior year in high school around this time (November/December 2011), I was very concerned and had a notion that the more scholarships I get and the more universities I get in, the higher my self-worth would be. So, naturally, I applied to as many...

At the beginning of this semester, I was hired as a Student Ambassador to write content for Freshmansupport.com, a website geared towards helping students like you learn more about prospective colleges. Over a two-week span, I spent over 20 hours researching and writing about IU. On this website,...

Namaste, I'm Cheryl Faux (pronounced fox) and welcome to my blog! Before I start giving you guys the best advice ever, I thought it'd be good to give you a little background about me! I'm a direct admit freshman in the Kelley School of business. On my application I put that I was an Economic...

Land of Opportunity=America...what? Yeah, America may be known as the Land of Opportunity, but that's not what I'm talking about. This land is known as the world of college (more specifically, Indiana University). Choosing a college is one of the many wonderful struggles you will face in life....

Wow! Boy does it seem like I've been gone for a long time on WeAreIU.com! I have been seeing multiple blogs from some of the other wonderful bloggers on the site, and suffice to say, I definitely feel a bit guilty for not contributing nearly as much as some of the others! Hopefully, starting with...

I’ve decided to switch gears a bit with this blog. Instead of looking at the present or future of IU, I’d like to take a few posts to highlight the past. IU is 92 years young and, accordingly, has seen both triumph and controversy surrounding specific decades, people, and global involvement. Its...

Let's face it, no one likes writing papers. Papers are terrible. They're time-consuming. They take actual work. They mean you need to look things up. They basically mean that you can't do what you want to do...the bane of a college student's existence. I just finished writing a 20-page research...

Hey everyone! The past few weeks, life has been beyond hectic so I haven't even had time to post on this blog. I've been meaning to post for a while now about scholarships and studying abroad. If you're like me, studying abroad sounds daunting due to money issues, but thankfully there ARE multiple...

When you start college, one of the first things that you will hear from former students is that you should really get to know your professors. They'll go on about how important is, and how they know someone who really benefited from it, blah blah blah... But when it comes down to it, some of your...