When the topic of college came up during my sophomore year in high school, my parents didn't really know how to help. My dad is a small business owner and my mom works as a vet tech so neither needed a college education. Then when the college talk started to get more serious I really didn't know who to talk to because my parents didn't really know that much. I learned how to become really independent when it came to...

When being accepted to three different schools, I felt like it was really difficult to decide which one was right for me. I had to ask myself, where could I see myself spend the next four years of my life at? When being accepted to Widener University,...