
Senior Retrospective: Kelly Schuster
to-do lists/lovenotes to myself on graduating/growing pains on armpit hair on learning within institutions built upon power on unlearning without them on swallowing water down the wrong tube sort of…
to-do lists/lovenotes to myself on graduating/growing pains on armpit hair on learning within institutions built upon power on unlearning without them on swallowing water down the wrong tube sort of…
When I read all of those hundreds of books about the college selection process and the veritable national-security level background checks students are supposed to give to each school before…
In my four years at Vassar, I learned things I never expected to learn. I learned that you can use dishwasher soap just like hand soap. I learned that Main…
I came to Vassar from overseas. As any of my teammates will be quick to point out, I am a faux Brit, both my parents are American but I spent…
One Thursday night in September 2011, I walked into the Math Lounge in Rockefeller Hall and recited a speech by Hephaestus from Book VIII of the Odyssey. Afterward, I talked…
These past four years at Vassar have been, to say the least, unexpected. Looking back, there have been painful moments and struggles complimented by some of the best times of…
I absolutely love being nostalgic. It’s actually my favorite pastime. I’m that person who asks everyone about their fellow groups and freshman roommates. I love reminiscing about the first time…
A teacher in high school told me once, “college is where you get to keep being a kid for four years before you have to get into the real world.”…
Dear 2015 Classmates, I sincerely hope that two or five or seven years down the line, when we inevitably run into each other on the World Wide Web, we remember…
I’m not sure what to write. At the end of Commencement 2013, a friend and I joked that by the time we were seniors, we would write a senior retrospective.…