By Mandy Seiner, ’18. For college students, a drop in mood and productivity in the colder months may be more than a case of the winter blues. Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD for short, is incredibly common among students in the northeastern region of the […]
Year: 2017
Fast and Furious: Finals
By Mandy Seiner, ’18 Perhaps the most chaotic part of the fall semester is the period of time between Thanksgiving and winter break. Students tend to return to campus with a great deal on their plates, not having considered how short the time span before […]
Home for the Holiday!
By Mandy Seiner, ’18 For most students who do not reside in Boston year-round, Thanksgiving is the first time they will return home after leaving for the school year. For first year students and their families especially this can be a shock, as the student […]
How To: Work Off-Campus
By: Mandy Seiner, Class of 2018 Many students find it crucial to work an internship or job during the school year and/or over the summer, as they find that it can be a source of income and give them a foot in the door for […]
A Good Time Was Had by All
1630 family members descended upon the main Emerson campus a week ago for the annual Family Weekend event. Here are some more figures: 379 families of first-year students attended 28 families of Comedic Arts students attended 11 families were unsure of their student’s major Close […]
Board Bucks and ECcash and Meal Swipes, Oh My!
Navigating Different Emerson Funds By Mandy Seiner, ’18 In addition to learning how to navigate a college campus and the college years, another thing Emerson students and families must become acclimated to is the variant forms of payment and ID swiping for different services, products, […]
Welcome to the New Year!
Greetings from the Director Dear Parents and Families, I’m delighted to welcome you back to another year at Emerson. September has always felt to me to be a “New Year” so much more so than January. It evokes for those of us in academia the […]
Off-Campus Living
There are plenty of resources provided for transfer, off-campus, and commuting students to build themselves a community both at Emerson and in Boston. Living off campus doesn’t necessarily mean anything different for your student in terms of being at Emerson. The reality is that they’re […]
How To: Talk Like An Emersonian
As with any niche community, at Emerson there’s a good bit of slang and sayings that come with the territory. The school’s community is a big fan of nicknames and abbreviations— things that can make new students and families feel a bit lost if they’re […]
The First Chapter
The summer before your student begins college at Emerson can feel both years long and like it will pass in the blink of an eye. Heading off to college is not a forever-goodbye, but it is a transition and there will likely be some kind […]