“Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new.” – Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google For an author, yes can mean the contract of their dreams. For an athlete, it can mean they’ve been recruited to a top-tier college. For me, yes meant being part of setting a record on the deck of the USS Intrepid. I’d gotten the email almost a year ago: a...

Dreaming Together “‘You are stronger than you think you are, braver than you believe, and smarter than you think you are.’ –Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh” The email pops up at the corner of my taskbar; it’s another quote from Drew’s collection. As I scroll down the email conversation, it’s hard to believe it’s been two months since we met. The conference was nine days long. It was three hundred high school students thrown together...

The essay was for admittance to the Emerson College Honors program. The prompt, available on the Emerson College website, is: "Wallace Bacon, a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Emerson College in 1975, wrote that the liberal arts, or humanities, “are concerned with the question of what makes life worth living. And that question concerns not simply oneself but others. The humanities must help us learn who we are; they must help us learn the otherness of others.” In this light,...

Emerson College is right in the heart of Boston. There's not really a defined campus, which isn't for everyone, but personally I love feeling like...

In the end, YOU are the one going to college. A guidance counselor or parent...

Whatever you do with your summer, do something productive. If you can get a job or internship that relates to your field of study, great! But if you can't, you get rejected everywhere you apply, or things just don't pan out, don't worry. It doesn't have to be an...

Emerson is seen as a very "artsy" school, so a lot of people tend to think all the students are "artsy": have brightly colored hair, lots of...

In a word, people here are passionate. They're passionate about their work and their art and the causes they stand up for. So make sure...