• Take a nap - Sue Ruff ’60
• Get to know your professors. Go see them during office hours. Build these relationships.” - Kerstin Rowe ’93
• Think critically and learn from any errors or missteps. Hold no grudges; make lifelong friends.Pursue your passions. Work to live. - Isaac Stanley ’73
• I learned many years after graduating that we always *DO* know what we are doing in life. We're just not always able to articulate it. We don't need to be rewarded, or even recognized to do what we do in following our own path. No one need agree with our path in the light. - Alicia Higham '88
• Study what you love. Set aside time to not study. - Donald Marritz '67
• It's good to be focused in your education, but for heaven's sake, have fun! Besides, balance between work and play ultimately makes you more effective. - Laila Patricia Brady, '80, Double Major, Music and Sociolinguistics
• You’re in college now.  No one else can tell you what courses to take.  So listen to yourself.  Trust your inclinations. - Donna Jo Napoli
• No walking alone at night, be safe. No drugs. No alcohol. Call your parents. Keep in regular contact with siblings. - Luz Montenegro
• Use well thy freedom. - Jane Lang '67
• Take time to enjoy and savor it all - even the difficult/unpleasant parts.  It will go by in a flash, and it's a truly unique time in life!” - Susan Smythe
• Four years goes by quickly. Try new things! Audition for a play, try a new sport. You'll appreciate this later! - Patricia Cohen
• Once you get your syllabi, make a calendar of due dates and exams for the whole semester. - Jennifer Martin ’75
• Take it all in. It’s the most important way station of your life -Marlie Bendiksen '59
• Stay open to all of "change" -both It's joyous adventure and discomfort- while cultivating self-awareness, authenticity, kindness and generosity. - Cynthia Beseler ’88
• If you’re nervous to do it, do it! Radio show? A capella? Ultimate? Skinny dip in the Crum? No regrets. - Caitlin Koerber ’08
•  Part of your educational experience at  Swarthmore is getting to know your fellow students. You have much to learn from them, and they may  become life-long friends. -Dr. Nancy Holland '72
•  Try at least one thing you expect to be terrible at and one thing no one back home would expect. - Emlen Metz ’09
•  Do not drink if you get mono. - Paula Bennett
•  Your path through Swarthmore will be non-linear: when you face hardships (personal or academic), don't hesitate to reach out for support! -Amy Cheng Vollmer
•  Enjoy every moment of your wonderful experience being a Swarthmore student. - Carol Buchser ’67

Recently, we asked you what are you cooking during this time? Here are your responses.

• Italian wedding soup
• Oatmeal
• Ikea’s recipe for Swedish meatballs
• Challah bread
• Banana bread
• Palestinian food
• Red velvet cake
• Avocado brownies
• Cookies
• The Rory (Donny’s special burger)
• Beignets
• Ratatouille
• All kinds of noodles
• Hot pockets
• Nepali dishes: momos, rajma, paneer, and kheer
• Lots of Vietnamese food
• Ghanaian jollof
• Korean food
• Vegan dumplings
• Vegetarian recipes
• Chicken and rice
• Pakoras
• Ginger-molasses cookies
• Pizza
• Recipes from Alison Roman’s Nothing Fancy cookbook

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Underworld by Don Delillo
• The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
• The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
• The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
• Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
• Burn the Place by Iliana Regan
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

• Great British Bake Off
• Fleabag
• You
• I Think You Should Leave
• Anything That Isn’t Paw Patrol
• Booksmart
• 20th Century Women
• Better Things
• the diving bell and the butterfly
• Contagion