As I finish up my final year at Pitt, I am grateful to look back on all of my experiences here and all of the people I have been fortunate enough to meet. The best piece of advice I have is something that I’m sure everyone has heard at some point before, but it encapsulates…

When I first got to Pitt, I was overwhelmed with all of the opportunities newly available to me and by all of the activities and projects people were involved in. Everyone appeared to be so put together and seemed to have a sort of “passion project” that motivated them. It took me a while to…

Hello again!! Despite how much time you spend in classes in college, so much more of life happens outside of the classroom. Pitt offers so many types of activities and extracurriculars to get involved with, which allows you to pursue interests that may not be allotted for within the traditional classroom setting. Whatever I couldn’t…

The first real struggle I had in my college career was deciding on a major; I had so many things that I wanted to try, that homing in on one specific major seemed daunting. I was interested in science, language, sociology, art, and history, and it felt impossible to work it all in. But in…

Hey everyone! My name is Alison Chilcott, I am a senior at Pitt and I’m from Hudson, Ohio (about 30 minutes outside of Cleveland). I am majoring in Biology and French, with minors in Chemistry and Sociology, and a Certificate on the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. What I love about being a Pitt student is…