Making a final choice of a college or a boarding school once admitted can be one of a student’s most exciting moments in life so far. Due to the global healt...

Building on my last blog post on whether unpaid internships are actually worth it, I want to take a step back and talk about whether working while in college...

In high school, I went for a meeting with my mom and my college counselor to talk about my future plans. “So,” she began,” have you begun thinking about wher...

Unpaid internships are an undeniable staple of the American university experience. According to a 2017 study by the National Association of Colleges and Empl...

Admittedly, it’s been four years since I was last in high school — but I remember it well. I went to an intensive, college-preparatory charter school in my h...

During the summer of my freshman year, I went to St. Petersburg, Russia to study Russian language for two months. A small group of students from my Russian c...

In the past 30 years, the cost of private colleges has doubled, while the cost of public colleges has tripled! What’s going on?! Let’s talk about what your h...

College in the United States is expensive. And overwhelming. If you choose to go to a big state school, like I did - the possibilities will seem endless. How...

In my experience, college students find their friends in one of a handful of places. This blog post is a simple guide to finding friends in a way that also e...

As I said in my previous blog, Galit, my Hermiona tutor, was the person who helped me to decide to attend my school. She told me that at CSW (Cambridge Schoo...

Most American universities have undergraduate (and graduate) deadlines very close to the winter holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas, or Hanukkah, or New...

I was a high-achieving high schooler: I got good grades, high test scores, and a list of extracurricular activities that I was passionate about. But by the e...

I believe that this blog topic is particularly important because it really drives at the heart of how Hermiona benefits its students. However, before we delv...

It all started in March 2019 when I found out that I had been accepted to all 8 schools that I applied to: the Williston Northampton School, Lawrence Academy...

Something that we’ve stressed at every event is the need to start early: TOEFL and SAT preparation, interest development, etc. But the notion of starting ear...

And with our Moscow event on November 5, Hermiona has begun another whirlwind tour! It was wonderful to get to see so many new faces interested in American e...

Tell me a bit about yourself I recently graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in international politics and minors in Russian language and Easte...

Being a student is hard. Whether you're in high school, or college, the amount of work always seems overwhelming. Our entire lives we're wired to believe tha...

I worked two internships during my summers in college, both of which I ended up returning to for more work and growth. I spent two summers working with maste...