I attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, from 1992 to 1996. I double majored in English and Dramatic Arts with a Dance emphasis. I consider myself a Renaissance woman, however, because I was employed on campus as a Computer Consultant for Academic Computing and as an Astronomy TA for the Physics Department. One semester before Commencement, I carried a 3.5 GPA and I was thisclose to making Phi Beta Kappa at the end of the year and graduating Magna Cum Laude. I studied like a crazy woman, but fell slightly short of my goals. I missed P.B.K. and Magna Cum Laude by four-hundredths of a G.P.A. point. AARRGGHH! However, Cum Laude from a school like Dickinson is honestly not all that bad. I've gotten over my disappointment.

Activity-wise, I was a founding member of Overachievers' Anonymous...No, seriously, I kept my schedule very full. For three years, I was the President/Captain of College Bowl, the Varsity Sport of the Mind (also known as the academic quiz team.) I was the secretary of the Speech and Debate Society and a founding member of Looking Glass Theatre, a peer-education theatre troupe. I was treasurer of the Dance Theatre Group, in addition to choreographing and performing twice a year. I also was a member of the Mermaid Players, the Campus Activity Board's Film Society, and former President of one of the campus political groups.

Oh, I'm also a brother of Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-ed service fraternity, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national Leadership honor society. I was selected as a Dana Scholar, based on academics and leadership, and was one of just a handful who won the Dana Scholarship in each of the three years of eligibility. I was selected as Dickinson's representative to the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders in 1993 - the first sophomore ever selected for attendance. I was also the 1992 winner of the Mary Louise D'Olier Shuman Award for Freshman Excellence and the very first winner of ODK and Student Senate's Leadership Award for Outstanding Junior Class Leader. Hey, did I mention that I sang with St. Paul's Lutheran Church's choir, in town and helped found the St. Paul's campus ministry?

Ok, so you get the point. I was very busy, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. I had a lot of fun, made valuable network connections, and consider over 75% of the students and staff members at the College during those years as personal friends.