I talked about how I spoke out against gender norms and sexism at our school

Q: There is a Quaker saying: “Let your life speak.” Describe the environment in which you were raised—your family, home, neighborhood or community—and how it influenced the person you are today. ( 200-250 words) Nudibranch /ˈn(y)o͞odəˌbraNGk/ noun. A shell-less sea slug. Ever since I watched “Finding Nemo” at the age of five, my love for marine life and the underwater fantasyland has blossomed as every shelf around the house became occupied with mini-aquariums. While most...

Jumbos aren’t afraid of embarrassing themselves. Whether it’s dancing like a wild baboon at Dance Collective, or getting splatters all over while painting the cannon, or even designing a course about “Cyberfeminism” at ExCollege, the nonjudgmental culture at Tufts allows non-conformists like me to jump at any opportunity without the fear of judgement. I want to go to a school where being “different” is mainstream, where individuality is underscored, where I can conformably crack a witty comment without...

“Read ten thousand books; travel ten thousand miles”—I live by this Chinese proverb. Going beyond book-learning, taking the indefinitely expanding world of human possibility and living it first-hand is what I envision myself doing for a lifetime. Born in Macau, raised in Shanghai, and having lived in L.A., I have encountered the world with multifaceted angles. Throughout my exchange experience in America during freshmen year, the amount of freedom in the classroom brought me out of my comfort...

Why Brown? I love the feeling of drowning. As I drowned myself in a plethora of compositions by Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinman, and Virginia Woolf in English class, I stumbled upon my previously unseen love for the combination of literature, history, and feminism. As I drowned myself in a cytoplasm of reefs, CaCO3, and nudibranchs during my expedition to Borneo, I divulged the intersection of marine biology, chemistry, and environmental justice. With its Liberal Learning Goals and Open Curriculum, Brown...