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Waiting for It to Get Better

Waiting for It to Get Better

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff December 8, 2019

My entire college career has been smooth sailing, more or less. I’ve never struggled with classes or my grades, proudly keeping up a 3.4 GPA (which could be several points higher if it weren’t for...

He Did It His Way

He Did It His Way

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff November 23, 2019
"The song ‘My Way’ by Frank Sinatra really felt like a perfect way to say goodbye to my grandfather, because his whole life he lived it his way.
Honors Junior Seminar Class Works with Hearts and Homes for Refugees

Honors Junior Seminar Class Works with Hearts and Homes for Refugees

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff November 4, 2019

“Our voices are louder and actions stronger when we work together,” is a slogan written on the website of the Hearts and Homes for Refugees, who are partnered with Prof. Patrick Fazioli’s Honors...

Transfer Student Killed West Windsor Remembered as Loving and Fun

Transfer Student Killed West Windsor Remembered as Loving and Fun

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff November 4, 2019

 Chelsea Celena Debidin, 21, was killed in her boyfriend’s apartment in New Windsor, New York on Sept. 21.  Chelsea was born on Jan. 16, 1998 and had just recently graduated with an Associate’s...

Lets Talk about Sex... In Westchester

Let’s Talk about Sex… In Westchester

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff October 3, 2019

Five cities in Westchester County will be given funding to go towards a program with the purpose of educating young people who seem to show at-risk behavior. $225,000 will go through Westchester County’s...

SGA Accepting Applications For Student Government Elections

SGA Accepting Applications For Student Government Elections

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff October 3, 2019

Make a difference. Be the change. These two slogans were sent out in an email from Student Life encouraging people to run for roles in the Student Government Association last year. Yet students...

Stand By Me

Stand By Me

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff September 21, 2019
I talk about three of the most important and influential people in my life.
Tears in Heaven

Tears in Heaven

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff September 18, 2019

I came up with the name for this column from the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” which is one of my favorite movies. It’s about erasing the memories of people from your brain, instead...

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