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Bringing It Home – The Saint Rose Blog

Author: Anne Marie

I'll start with the basics I guess. The name's Anne Marie (or Anne, or "hey you," and I've answered to Captain America, too), blogging is the game. I'm a freshman communications major, with a concentration in PR, and a minor in sociology. Born in Buffalo, raised in Poughkeepsie, currently living in Lima Hall. Addicted to Dr. Pepper, Swedish Fish, and Twitter.

How to pack for college: Things you didn’t know you needed

Packing for college the first time can be stressful. What do you need? What should you leave at home? How will it all fit? Where’s the best place to get everything? There are somewhere around 100,000,000,000 different versions of lists with titles such as “50 things all students need to pack” or “the BEST college checklist.” These lists are all over…

The Best Years of Your Life

People often tell college students that, “College is the best time of your life,” and often times, we the college students tell them that they’re full of it. We tell them that college is full of stress and papers, useless homework, dumb group projects, bad relationships and breakups, bad food, bad roommates and having no money. However, once you actually…

Anne’s List of Ways to Beat the Stress

College is stressful. Life in general is stressful. Those are some pretty well-known facts. While the first few weeks or so of classes always seem to be pretty easy going, it’s right around Mid-October where it all builds up and you just want to claw your eyes out. Now I don’t want you to feel the need to claw your…

One Month Down

….less than eight to go So far, this semester has been going by EXTREMELY fast. It honestly feels like I’ve only been here a week, but then I realize it’s been a month.  This semester is a lot different, and a lot better than the last. Last year I came in as a first-year student: confused, disoriented, having no friends, and not…

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