by Mikayla Roach | Apr 17, 2022
This weekend my parents and younger sister came to State College to visit. We got to celebrate Easter together and started to pack up my room for the semester. My parents and younger sister got to Penn State Saturday afternoon. When they arrived we first went to...
by Mikayla Roach | Apr 10, 2022 |
This upcoming January, I will be living in and paying for my own apartment for the first time ever. This is a very big and exciting step for me. There are a lot of things I need to consider as I am choosing an apartment, these considerations include whether or not I...
by Mikayla Roach | Mar 27, 2022 |
Lately I have had several headaches. I went through a phase during last school year in which I would have constant headaches, I would have a headache at least every other day. I would have headaches that would last several days as well. It was very hard to get...
by Mikayla Roach | Mar 20, 2022 |
Over spring break, I was fortunate enough to be able to go on the PLA trip to New York City. It really was an amazing experience. The trip started a little later for me than it did for the majority of the other students on the trip. I left later than the rest of...
by Mikayla Roach | Feb 27, 2022 |
This weekend I was supposed to be in West Lafayette to go on my official graduate school visit to Purdue University. I was supposed to leave from the State College Airport at 5:45 but my first flight got delayed by 2 hours due to the weather. This meant that my...
by Mikayla Roach | Feb 20, 2022
This weekend I went to THON for the first time! It was really fun and overall a great experience, but it did not start out that way. I signed up for the Millennium Society entrance plan. When I signed up I did not know exactly what this entailed but I knew it would...
by Mikayla Roach | Feb 6, 2022 |
One of the reasons why I think I am able to find success in many of the things that I do is because I strive for perfection in everything that I do. This is a pro and a con. Although this brings success a lot of times, it also comes with a lot of stress and so I...
by Mikayla Roach | Jan 29, 2022 |
I was just recently accepted to Purdue University to pursue my Phd in Biomedical Engineering! I am extremely excited for this “Next Giant Leap” in my life (I say “Next Giant Leap” because Purdue’s new brand platform in “The Next Giant Leap” – the University is...
by Mikayla Roach | Jan 16, 2022 |
In one of my previous blogs I wrote about my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian. Shortly after I wrote that blog, I decided to become a vegan. It was a lot easier than I had anticipated it would be. I predicted that it would be difficult for me to exclude...
by Mikayla Roach | Dec 5, 2021 |
This fall semester has probably been the hardest semester of my entire college career. I believe that this particular semester within my major is usually one of the most difficult but it was especially hard due to the given circumstances we were in. The...
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