I am happiest when I am consumed by curiosity, immersed in a sea of knowledge. When I’m listening to Ted Talks about quorum sensing, researching the contexts of Biblical or Qur'anic passages, creating a formula to find the empty area in Sierpinski's triangle after the nth step (3n-14nx23), ([3^(n-1)]/4^n)(x^2)[3^(½)]I am part of something bigger. Brown offers a learning environment where curiosity, not grades, drives learning, where passion guides fields of study through the Open Curriculum....

I never thought that I would fall in love with Oberlin. It was my mom’s alma mater, a conservatory for dedicated musicians, not simply music appreciators like me. But love is unpredictable. This love story begins during an alumni reunion. I fell in love again and again each hour I spent on campus. I fell in love with the peace and warmth of the Muslim prayer room, with the sophistication yet accessibility of the science labs, with the comfort...