Firenze! – Preparing for UConn’s Florence, Italy Program

Bonjourno! Jacob here, One very short month from now I will be embarking on my biggest trip of my lifetime. I will be studying abroad in Florence Italy for an entire semester! I leave on January 8th, but will not be in Florence until the ninth after a quick layover in Frankfurt Germany (another place […]

UConn Study Aboard: An Opportunity of a Lifetime

Hello all, Jacob here! Even three years ago when I was deciding where I wanted to go to college I knew I wanted to study abroad. Luckily for me here at UConn we have over 300 programs in 65 different countries and on six continents (sorry no penguin abroad program in Antarctica yet). In the […]

UConn’s New Storrs Center!

Hello everyone, Jacob here, Whenever I give a tour here at UConn I always make a point to tell visitors to ask their tour guides at other schools, “What is your least favorite part of your school”. This is my way of leading my visitors to ask me what my least favorite part about UConn. […]

Staying Fit the UConn Way

Hi everyone, Jacob here, With 17,000 Undergraduate students at UConn chances are there is a large proportion that enjoys working out and staying fit. No matter the time of day if one was to walk into the Student Recreation Facility there will always be students either playing basketball, scaling our rock wall, lifting weights or […]

Renea Harrington: Making the LVC Run Smoothly on a Daily Basis

Hello, Jacob here, As our blog has progressed over the spring semester there have been many posts about Colleagues who work at the Lodewick Visitor Center (LVC). Usually these posts focused around the students work either on desk and providing tours to our visitors. However, I had the pleasure of being able to write about […]

Why Join UConn’s Greek Life?

Hi Jacob here, Whenever I introduce myself to a tour I make sure to highlight that I am a proud member of Greek Life. What usually follows from here is a prospective student asking me about Greek Life. To most being Greek is the abyss of college, the unknown and the scary. In reality though […]

My Favorite Class This Fall

Hi, Jacob here, One finds all walks of life from the UConn community stroll in to the Arjona building at 9 am to POLSCI 1202. For those that do not attend UConn that stands for Comparative Politics class. There are political science majors like myself as well as students majoring in nearly every other subject because it […]

First Year Students at Hillel

Greetings Jacob here, One of my favorite places on campus is the Trachten-Zachs Hillel. Besides the ample amount of study space, the best feature of the completely renovated Hillel facility at UConn is its programming. To break it down even further, my favorite program that the Hillel offers is the First Year Students at Hillel […]