Hello everyone!

My name is Brittany and I just completed my Sophomore year at Brown University. I am from a very small, very quiet town in Massachusetts so living in a city such as Providence for the past couple of years has been an amazing and exciting experience. The opportunities that have presented themselves over the past two years have been countless and I cannot wait to see what the next two years bring!

I play varsity lacrosse at at school and cannot imagine my life without it. My teammates are my family and my best friends. The time commitment involved both in and out of season is extensive but it has only made me more efficient and it has taught me the valuable time management skills that I know I will carry with me later in life. With the lacrosse team I have had the opportunity to participate in a mentoring program with a local elementary school as well as fundraising for both juvenile diabetes research and the Friends of Jaclyn foundation.

Because I was recruited to play a sport at school, my college search and application process were much different than the traditional experience. The application deadlines for me were pushed up several months and I had the opportunity to go on “official visits” to the schools that were recruiting me. While this may not be what most people go through, it taught me valuable lessons such as the importance of visiting a school before you make any decisions about it. I fell in love with Brown midway through my first tour of the campus when before that I had had my mind set on a different school.

Academically, I have chosen to major in Economics and have been taking a mix of economics, biology and various other subjects. I have had both ups and downs with miserably hard but incredibly interesting classes as well as super easy but terribly boring classes. I have learned so much about myself both intellectually and otherwise during my first two years of college and I can’t wait to convey to you all how amazing the college experience has been thus far!