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Since so many of us at Emerson are so enthusiastic about the place, precocious prospective students always ask what we don't like about Emerson. My advice to any incoming freshman also answers this question.

At any college, you will invariably find a "bubble" -- a little microsociety, with its own rules and lexicon and boundaries. I think one of the most important things for incoming students to remember is that the bubble -- be it...

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My freshman year I was placed in a learning community in Piano Row, one of the newer residence halls on campus. A learning community is sort of Emerson's version of themed living -- they're specific floors where students live who share not necessarily a common major, but a common area of interest. I lived on the 'Writer's Block,' an admittedly awful name, but truly a nice place to live. We held workshops on our floor a few times a week to critique ea...

Continue reading: Living in Boston - Piano Row

10 million tourists visit Boston every year. NOT ME! Well, I mean, I do come to Boston a couple of times a year, so I might be pushing the statistics. But for quite some time - although not a resident of Boston - I refuse to be a tourist.

My daughter, Nicolette, an Emerson College junior student, lives here and this qualifies her to be what I call "a temporary Bostonian". And I, a Mom involved in Emerson life and its volunteer work - by extensi...

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There are a few moments that stick out in my mind when I think about the summer before college. I remember when I got my roommate assignments early on in the summer. My mom suggested that I call my roommates to coordinate what items to bring. When I called the first name on the list no one answered so I left a message. The second person on the list was a girl named Candace Silva. I remember calling her house and speaking to her mother first. Her mom was...

Continue reading: Life before college...

I'm not a woman of few words. You are fairly warned, so if you still want to read my first entry, here we go... It will take through the how's and why's of our daughter's decision to consider Emerson and how we feel about the choice three years later.

Summer 2000...
My husband and I followed our jobs and moved as expats from the Netherlands to the New Jersey suburbia. Nicolette, our daughter, has just turned 12 we chose a ...

Continue reading: A "No-Brainer" Decision

My favoite place in Boston? There are so many choices. The Institute of Contemporary Art is a swanky new meseum right on the harbor. The architecture is a modern wonder, and the exhibitions never disappoint. The ICA's latest was Shepard Fairey, the arist who did that now-famous graphic of Barack Obama, simply captioned "Hope."

The Esplanade is a gorge...

Continue reading: Bookmark These Spots

Let me preface this post by saying that I love Boston and have found countless wonderful places in the city. One of my favorite places to go is the Museum of Fine Arts. The MFA has a phenomenal art collection, is a short T trip away, and is free for Emerson students.

The museum is currently under construction as they expand, which will give them room for even more art. Aside from their permanent collection,...

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The summer is my favorite time of year in Boston. Once May hits the city is an entirely different place. My favorite thing to do in Boston happens during the summer as well. Every summer the Boston Harbor Hotel has their summer series. Every Tuesday they host different R&B and soul singers with their bands. Wednesday nights they have swing bands perform and Thursday nights is a blues band. All of these events occur outdoors on a dock facing the water. <...

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As stupid as this sounds, when I was looking at colleges, one of the factors that I considered was whether or not the city had a good live music scene. Austin, Texas and Athens, Georgia were both high on my list. Having grown up in Nashville, a town almost always skipped by my favorite bands, I was desperate to move to a city that wasn't constantly forgotten by my musical heroes.

Few things make me happier than going to see live music. My very f...

Continue reading: Boston Rock City

I will never forget my first visit to Emerson College. At the time I was a senior in high school and eighteen years old. During Christmas break my senior year I applied to seven schools in the Boston area. I was living in North Georgia at the time and I was really looking for a change of scenery. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to all the schools I applied to, so during my spring break in April my mom and I flew up to Boston to look at all of them...

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A lot of my friends at Emerson don't realize that I'm an international student. I have a fairly American accent, thanks to international school which means I usually slip under the radar (I've been asked if I was from NYC, it was quite the compliment!) So when my friends find out I actually grew up in India and have an Indian passport, it's always a WOW moment. Everyone stops what they're doing, stares at me with confused faces and then the questions st...

Continue reading: "You're from India, how did you land up at Emerson!?!"