So Vassar Has Made Me A Blogger.

I’m sure that when I was born, my parents had no idea I would aspire to this. I don’t even think the Internet really existed back then, which further validates my point. But the Vassar College Relations Department was crazy enough to let this happen, so I’m going to do my best in giving you a perspective of my college life, and everything that goes along with it.

My name is Brooke. I am 21 years old and a rising senior at Vassar College. Although I’ve been spending most of my time here in Poughkeepsie since my freshman year, I grew up in the outskirts of the suburban sprawl of Cleveland, which I still consider to be my home. Some may consider me to be a "typical Vassar student"-striving to get good grades while still getting a good college experience-and we'll try not to let my campus job get in the way of that.

"What is Vassar like?" "Do people study all the time?" "Does the food suck?" "Are the dorms disgusting?" "Are the students really as weird as the Princeton Review says they are?"

I suppose those are some of the questions that I am trying to answer. There are no easy answers, but I can give you a bit of my close insight and let you decide for yourself. When I was a prospective student, I had no idea of what to expect. Vassar ran some sort of online chat sessions where you could talk to someone at the college for maybe half an hour every six months. Whether or not those still exist I have no idea. But who wants to wait that long to get answers? Now, that's my job.

I've never blogged before and I'll admit I don't really know what I'm doing. But I'll do the best that I can to give you some answers and maybe even convince you that you are Vassar material. Of course, whether you are Vassar material is still up to the Admission's Department, but I'll do my best to put in a good word for you if you read this thing.

All right, that was a lie, but you should still read it.