Admission

Admission Interns

Charles Bettendorf '10
I hail, a champion, from the Middle West and currently study Classics at Reed.  I grew up on a small farm in Missouri.  At age six Mama and Pop sent me to be educated at the Country Day School.  At age twelve, mens sana in corpore sano, I slew the East Saint Louis Lion. At fourteen I descended to the underworld. At fifteen I paddled the Missouri in a golden cup. At eighteen I landed in Big Sky, captured Custer's girdle and in the fall of the twentieth Winter Olympiad I arrived in the City of Roses an initiate to the Mysteries, the Mysteries of Reed. 

I may divulge only so much, but if you seek answers in question form, lift your hands to Ouranos, propitiate cloud gathering Zeus and send word.

Dahlia Grossman-Heinze '10
I was born in southern California, but moved to Kansas as a kid. I grew up there, learned to say "pop" instead of "soda", and moved back to California in high school, where I got made fun of for saying "pop" instead of "soda". While I call both states home, I'm a Midwestern girl at heart. Because I moved around so much I think I developed some sort of place-related complex in which I just didn't know where I
belonged. I took a path a bit longer than most to wind up at Reed, transferring here as a sophomore, but once I got here, I knew I was finally in the right place.

Reed is my favorite place in the whole world, and as I say this I am placing my hands over my heart, a gesture my friends have become very familiar with that indicates that I am telling the truth, and also that I really love something. I'm a senior English major. I'm into creative writing and modern and contemporary literature and drama. Aside from spending all my time reading, I enjoy chocolate milk, clothes, David Lynch, art history, jazz, R.L. Stine, rap that is not in English, shoes, lit theory, art nouveau, hot air balloons, horror films, Henry VIII, pasta, and Britney Spears. If I could write my thesis on Britney Spears, I would, but I'm writing it on Angels in America by Tony Kushner. As a child I wanted to a detective when I
grew up, but now I'm hoping to be able to work in publishing or be a novelist after I graduate.

If you have questions about being an English major, creative writing, transferring to Reed, hot air balloons, life at Reed, or Britney Spears, please contact me, because I like to talk about all of those things. A lot.

Salim Moore '11
The time has come the griffin said, to talk of many things; Of Reed, and books, and Thesis Tower – Of the Doyle Owl and swings, And why this place has such charm, of which we all should sing.

Privet. Hola. Salut. I am an Art History major from Altadena, California. I left my moss garden and some giant pumpkin seedlings to attend Reed. I suppose that's okay though because moss grows on everything here, even the cars, seriously. I am a big fan of accordions and violins and opera. I like to read märchen, myths, and legends before bed. Once, a group of friends and I got together and created the science fiction and fantasy theme dorm, Tír na nÓg. 

If you're passionate about all things Joss Whedon, George R. R Martin, or just science fiction and fantasy in general, you should come talk to me. If you're passionate about oral tradition, short films, creative writing, and/or food, you should consider talking to me. If you're passionate about art, architecture, activism and sustainability, you should most likely get in touch with me. If you're passionate about all of the above, stop reading and find me. I'll be waiting, ears wide open and fingers poised, for any and all of your questions. : D

Mic Parker '10
These are the things I love: rainy days, old books, cute boys, cool sheets, T.S. Eliot, my family and my friends and Reed. Maybe that sounds glib. There are other things I love, too, but I don't know how to write them out.

I'll start here: I grew up in Arkansas and thought I hated it. So I moved far away and threw myself into Portland and the labor of love (intense love and a very real desire to know always more) that is my Reed education. There are things here that much of Arkansas does not desire but are wonderful (the gay community) and I don't want to imagine my life without this place. But I have to admit, too, that the South is in my bones and teeth and hair and I miss the summer nights and the certain sounds that used to wake me in the mornings (frogs, grass being cut, my sister's bad music).

I'm majoring in Classics and Theatre. I can't help feeling like that's the best decision I've ever made. There's a play I've written that I'll try to direct and a paper that I'll try to write about Cassandra and what it was like to be a prophetess in the classical world.

You want to talk about the Aeneid, theatre, being one of the poor folk, the transition from the South to the Northwest, what it's like to neither drive nor bike in Portland or Arkansas, trash TV (a driving force in my life), Beckett, how much I suck at Latin or anything else in the world? I would love to hear from you.