Blog

Welcome to our UConn Pre-College Summer (PCS) blog! Our program is very fortunate to work and collaborate with some incredible people within our community, many of whom have helped shape the PCS program as we know it today! We value the perspectives of our students, faculty, staff, and community partners and hope this space serves as an invitation to learn from one another and gain insight into our mission of providing students with access to and preparation for higher education.

How You Practice is How You Play

The phrase “practice makes perfect” is often used in sports and music as a way to explain that the more we do something, the better we get at it. Athletes don’t simply wake up one day and become the best at their sport, and musicians can’t master their craft overnight. I’d argue that the same […]

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Meet Jessica Wang: Past Resident Manager

My name is Jessica Wang. I am a junior at UConn and I am pursuing a dual degree in Secondary Education Mathematics and Mathematics. My pronouns are she/her/hers.  My dream school was always UConn, so when my parents found the Pre-College Summer Program, I was thrilled! I was a junior in high school, so I […]

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