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About Emery Taylor

Emery is a rising junior at Hamilton College, going abroad to Madrid, Spain for her 2017-2018 academic year. She is double majoring in World Politics and Hispanic studies with a minor in Education. To escape the isolated hill on which her Upstate New York college is located, Emery ventures to the city of Utica, where she tutors and teaches English to immigrant and refugee students from around the world. Emery has a passion for tutoring and helping others. She is also a strict vegan and animal-rights advocate. Emery is a part of her school’s Vegan Club, Black and Latin Student Union, and Trans Advocacy Committee, she is a firm believer in equality for all living creatures and works her best not to kill house centipedes—which are her greatest fear.

Eating Disorders: What You Need to Know

Eating disorders come in many variations, and many go overlooked. An eating disorder goes far beyond skipping meals. Eating disorders affect people psychologically and lead them to self-harming behavior; They are characterized by a person’s distress, and subsequent actions toward their body weight or shape, or efforts managing weight or food intake (National Institute of [...]

Cutting Out Toxic Relationships

Healthy relationships are a fundamental part of finding happiness and stability in one’s life. Oftentimes, people find themselves believing that the relationships they currently have are either the best they deserve or the best could ever obtain. Some people also feel that the longer a person is in their life, the more critical maintaining a [...]

Staying True to Yourself on Social Media

The amount of people using social media is steadily growing, meaning that more and more people are being influenced by the top trends, articles, and people on social networks. We all know that social media is an opportunity to express and explore oneself, but many obstacles stand in the way of positive self-expression and the [...]

Dealing With Trauma From Rejection

  We have all experienced a significant rejection or failure that has led us to doubting our own abilities or potential. How we deal with such adversities is what helps us reverse their negative impacts and find ways to grow. Rejection comes in multiple forms and interpretations, and regardless of the supposed degree of importance, [...]

Compartmentalizing Information to Avoid Anxiety

As a part of my summer internship working with Get Smart, I have been assigned a mentor. My mentor’s job is simply to talk to and get to know me, and ask me questions to get me to think critically. Our last meeting had us both contemplating. My mentor asked me how I could possibly [...]

Your Grades Aren’t You

 Do you consider the students with the highest grades to be the smartest in the class? Have you ever thought that they’d be so much more successful than you and everyone else with lower grades than them? Have you ever shown someone a poor grade that you got, and they made you feel unintelligent? A [...]