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The families of 780 freshmen and 134 transfer students arrived on campus on Thursday, August 31, to move in their Saints for the start of the new academic year.

In case you haven't heard, internships are the ultimate return on investment for the college student. So it made perfect sense to us to have someone on campus dedicated to internships—eating, breathing and sleeping internships. Meet Alicia Pepe.

Right now we’re in the middle of a significant healthcare shift. As the details of the Affordable Care Act are renegotiated in Congress, and as new technological and medical advances arrive every single day, nurses—and all medical professionals—need to be resilient, well-trained and highly adaptable. A bachelor’s in nursing can help with all of those things.

It's our job as admissions counselors to understand the thought process high school students go through during the whole college list creating process. So we get it; it's tough, exciting, tiring, exhilarating, and all the feels. Here are seven things we hear often that may sound familiar to you...

Add this to the growing list of reasons we love it here at Siena: We gave these seniors a chance to do what they’ve always wanted to do during their time on campus (and we recorded it.) They’re fun and amazingly funny. Watch a couple of our favs.

Even though our alumni are spread out across the country, we do love when Saints choose to stay close to home. Even better, when they make a name for themselves. In the Capital Region, Katie O'Malley Maloney ('06) is synonymous with flawless event planning. Her team is the go-to group for weddings, showers, celebrations of all kind—and Katie will be the first person to tell you that it takes hard work to dominate a market. Read on about the Siena grad (who holds a marketing management degree) and owner of Katie O' Weddings & Events (KOWE) in Troy, NY.

You can never save too much money for college, right? This summer, carve out a little time to apply to some scholarships. There are hundreds out there, but we chose a select few that we think, as a prospective Siena student, you might find interesting. Just take note of their deadlines!

Not familiar with Albany? Get to know why the capital of New York State and its surrounding cities and towns make upstate a great place to study, work, live and hang out. As told through a bunch of numbers.

Here at Siena, we like to stay busy between academic years, and 2017 is no different. We’ve got sports, academics, a new telescope(!), and a gym we’re overhauling. Take a look.

Asking a question your tour guide doesn't expect can net you a really interesting, authentic response. So we thought about what some surprising questions might be, and here's what we came up with.