At my home university, I worked as an RA, manager, and community programmer for various residence halls and living learning communities. I also co-founded Russian club and presented at conferences for the History Department and the Honors College. In my free time I love to travel (when I can), read, and watch ballet. I'm currently studying abroad in Russia and having an amazing time meeting wonderful people and seeing beautiful historical sites. :)

Travel, books (Shakespeare, 19th century novels, poetry), food (eating more than cooking), ballet, yoga, photography (on a very amateur basis), high-heeled shoes and fur-trimmed coats, cello music, roses, lilies, friendship, love.

Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart; Sarah Brightman; totally random songs.

Phantom of the Opera, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Much Ado about Nothing, pretty much any Disney film.

The Bible, the complete works of Shakespeare, the Brothers Karamazov, anything by Jane Austen, the poems of Emily Dickinson

How I Met Your Mother, Four Weddings, NCIS

"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen."
- Saint Francis of Assisi

"Love people even in their sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth."
"Love is such an infinite treasure it can buy the whole world and can redeem not only your sins, but the sins of all people. So go and fear no more."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"I dwell in Possibility--
A fairer House than Prose--
More numerous of Windows--
Superior--for Doors--
Of Chambers as the Cedars--
Impregnable of Eye--
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky--
Of Visitors--the fairest--
For Occupation--This--
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise-- "
- Emily Dickinson