Vassar College

“Vassar College? What’s that?” If you would have asked me this question a month or two ago, I would honestly have no idea what to tell you. “Sounds like a college… Who are they?” However, here I am at 2 am on New Year's Day, frantically explaining to my friends why I need to finish this application by 11:59 pm, why I’m just starting it, and why it means so much to me. I filled out my Questbridge application in a similar manner; fairly last minute, after much consideration of the “it’s a long shot”s and “hey, maybe you’ll get lucky”s, and with passion. After finding out that I was announced a Questbridge Finalist on October 20th, my happiness filled to the brim with the incredible opportunities that the organization gave me. I all-too-quickly…

spent such a concentrated amount of time in that aspect of production or worked on projects on such a timescale. The only other experience I had with scene shop was what I had learned in the half credit Introduction to Stagecraft course I took at Vassar College, which involved learning how to work with wood and how to design props. Working in Northeastern’s scene shop was interesting because you are not designing the props on your own. You are the team responsible for constructing and bringing…

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper lived from 1906 to 1992. She grew up in the big city of New York, New York. She had a scientific and analytical mind from the time that she was a child. At the age of only 7, she took apart every single alarm clock in the house. Grace is best-known for her work in the technology field. She was one of the first-ever computer programmers, pioneering the field for her time. Grace was a computer scientist who graduated from Vassar and then continued on to Yale…

who seemed like a Roman Goddess ran full speed up to us it was my new friend’s mom; she was wearing a Vassar College…

Anita Florence Hemmings was the first African American woman to graduate from Vassar College. In 1893, when she applied to the college she did not say that she was a Negro woman on her application. She was admitted to all woman’s college, and it wasn’t until right before she graduated her true race was discovered. Her college dorm roommate was suspicious of her background. She had informed her father, and he had Ms. Hemmings investigated. It turned out that she was the daughter of a homemaker,…

In the Revisionist History podcast "Food Fight", Malcolm Gladwell examines two colleges, Vassar and Bowdoin, to determine what is of greatest importance in higher education. Bowdoin College seems to believe food of high important, its dining hall being characterized by "Fresh rosemary and a personal touch", as Gladwell says. Vassar College, on the other hand, is more focused on helping poorer students to receive a decent education. Gladwell comes to the conclusion that Vassar College made the…

My college search has been centered on two main components, the first is being a small liberal arts school and the second is money. I first discovered Vassar while reading the Fiske Guide to College. I liked the school enough to take a day and participate in a campus tour and information session the campus was absolutely beautiful, the history was intriguing and the quirky facts, like how the college had been banned from competing in world records due to fibbing about their longest unsupported…

I selected Grace Hopper for my famous mathematician project. I chose this Mathematician because she seemed like an interesting person and I wanted to learn more about her. Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 in New York, New York and she died on January 1, 1992. She died at the age of 85 years old. Some historical events that happened in the world during Grace Hopper's life were: in 1906 the San Francisco earthquake happened. Also in January of 1933 Hitler started to take over in Germany.…

Grace Hopper, born as Grace Murray on December 9, 1906 in New York City. She was known to be curious about how things worked throughout her life. When she was seven, she took apart an alarm clock to see how it worked, but couldn’t get it back together, so she took apart another and ran into the same problem, so she took apart another one. By the time she was done, she had taken apart seven alarm clocks. She probably would have torn apart more but her mother stopped her. She applied to Vassar…

Let us go to College College is supposed to be the best years of an individual’s life, where he or she embarks on new experiences, such as attending football games, moving away from home, and meeting new friends. But, is it all worth it in the end? In the report “Should Everyone Go to College?” Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill discuss enormous variations in the rate of return on education depending on factors such as institution attended and choice of major. A rhetorical analysis of the Owen…