{ Hello }
I'm Brandi, a senior English major from Winchester, Virgina, a pretty rural area several hours from Washington, DC. I lived there my whole life (ask me what it's like to grow up in the house your great-great-grandfather built), and that didn't look like it was going to change much until I declared to my parents when I was 15 that I was going to go to college (I'm the first on both sides), and I wanted that college to be Oberlin. They weren't quite ready for so much change all at once, so I spent a year at a large public university in Virginia before I transferred here.
I've taken a wide variety of classes here, embracing the liberal arts mindset: a drawing-heavy architecture class, an organismal biology class, a course on the writing of William Faulkner, a grant writing class which allowed me to write and submit a grant for a nonprofit organization, a mythology class, and a semester of Italian. My final project for my English major is likely to be a comparison of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. I absolutely love the interdisciplinary nature of classes here and how passionate my professors and fellow students are, and I can't speak highly enough of how much I've learned from others inside and outside of the classroom.
As far as extracurricular activities go, I do my best to stay busy. I've become the main point person on transfer student affairs here- last year I was both the RA of the transfer hall and the president of the transfer student association, and I'm the go-to girl in Admissions for transfer student life. I'm a senior intern for Admissions, so I help with info sessions, interview prospective students, answer e-mails, and for the summer I'll be giving campus tours. I'm a docent (a.k.a. an art tour guide) at the magnificent Allen Memorial Art Museum, I've worked for Financial Aid in the Student Employment Office, and I'm the student representative to the Library committee. Oh, and I'm utterly hooked on swing dancing. I took both swing dancing ExCo classes and am working on adding to the list of places I've danced, which now includes Cleveland, Pittsburg, Washington DC, and Sacramento. I'm one of the co-chairs of OSwing, so feel free to contact me if you've always wanted to learn how to Charleston or Lindy Hop.
I have a not-so-secret passion for answering questions, so please feel free to suggest topics you'd like to hear more about or get in touch with me about more specific inquiries.
