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2020-2021 College Ambassador Roster

Tree ID around Storrs!
By Emma MacDonald As a freshly admitted student, I came to UConn in the School of Fine Arts. However, I realized that wasn’t the right path for me before I even attended classes, switching my major to Environmental Studies, in CLAS, at my freshman orientation. But I soon found that Environmental Studies was too broad […]
Posted on April 15, 2021

Reflections and Advice from a UConn Senior
By Dana Chamberlain. College was hard for me. I came in not really knowing what I wanted to do and am graduating still not fully knowing what’s next for me. But if there’s one thing that I’ve learned over the past four years at UConn, it’s that success isn’t linear. Some people enter college knowing […]
Posted on March 25, 2021

Finding Light in the Darkness
By Yvette Oppong. All of the injustice that took place in 2020, from the exacerbation of environmental injustice due to COVID-19 to the many examples of racial injustice in our society, had made me feel very hopeless. It just seemed as though African Americans and people of color were not made for success while living […]
Posted on March 18, 2021