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Megan Kelly,
Cascade Senior High School,
Everett, Wash.
MEGAN KELLY’S FIRST DAY ON CAMPUS
started badly. She missed orientation registration after
a string of travel mishaps. She reached campus
confused, hungry, and needing $200 —and counting
— for the unanticipated cab ride from the Richmond
airport.
But things looked up when College photographer
Meridith De Avila Khan saw her plight and led her to
an ATM. Meantime Sweet Briar Vice President Louise
Zingaro heard the story and invited her and another
late-arriving classmate to her home for a late lunch
since the dining hall was closed until dinner.
So when we asked what has been the most
pleasant surprise about Sweet Briar, Megan’s answer
was ready. “Other than finding ten bucks in my
closet? It would be that everyone is legitimately as nice
as SBC boasts. I am constantly shocked by how nice
people are.”
Megan says she is “pretty much set on
international affairs” as a major. She is taking
introductory Spanish, a course on German fairytales,
international politics and an education class. She also
is enrolled in the y:1 seminar “Muslim Immigration
and Assimilation in Modern Europe.”
A few weeks into the semester she was involved in
the German, Environmental and Future Teachers
clubs, in addition to creating one of her own.
“I am also starting, with a few others, a Harry
Potter-esque club. We’ll be playing Quidditch and
being nerdy together.”
For Megan a “school full of traditions” was
important. She wanted a great education program and
small classes. So far, so good — Sweet Briar has all of
those things. She would need financial aid to realize
these goals, but she wasn’t interested in a public
university close to home. In fact, she was looking for
something completely unlike her Northwest home,
which may be a case of careful what you wish for.
“e most difficult thing to adjust to, I want to
say is the weather,” Megan says, “but in reality you all
have some weird bugs here. ey are big, loud, and in
your face. I had never seen a stinkbug, a firefly, and
many other creatures till I arrived here.”
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