Recently by Grazyna Orlemans

Let's not alert the press; everyone knows that. But not everybody is aware (yet) how strong the circle of the Emerson Community is.

After three years of my volunteer involvement at Emerson College, right from my daughter's freshman year through the end of her junior year, I have experienced firsthand what it means to be an Emersonian.

While Nicolette '10 has been finishing her last projects this year, I have returned to Boston for the ...

Continue reading: The Circle is Round

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...

Continue reading: The Temporary Bostonians

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