Barnard College Admission Essays

Behind the camera’s shutter, I am never calm or collected. I am, more often than not, trying to figure out my next photography shot, my eyes darting from my subject to the light source to a detail of the scene. However, I am perfectly content….

Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, awed me when I first met her at Fashion Institute of Technology. Originally a politician who became the first Indian American woman to run for Congress, Mrs. Saujani had no technological skills to create an organization about…

There’s something oddly comforting about sitting in an airplane and barreling through the sky at 37,000 feet. Granted, the food could be better and the seats a little bigger, but I’ve never been able to find a place quite like this one. When I’m up…

As a child, I had an immense passion for creativity and expressing myself through various art forms. I remember spending hours on end painting, drawing, and sculpting, and I found it to be a way of releasing my emotions and inner thoughts. As I grew…

I wish I could do it all but I’m no superwoman; I’m just an ordinary girl with 24 hours a day. Deciding to write and direct for DramaFest, an intra-school Drama competition, meant sacrificing other clashing commitments including leading in Orientation and dancing for a…