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EMILY SCHMIDT
HOMETOWN:
 Chicago, IL
HIGH SCHOOL:
 University of Chicago Laboratory School
MAJOR:
 American Studies, with an Urban Studies concentration
THESIS:
 I am considering writing a senior essay bout the Victory Garden movement sponsored by the U.S. Government in World War II and the way it was implemented in urban environments.
ACTIVITIES:
 My favorite activity has been working on Long Lane Farm and the bi-weekly Wesleyan Farmer's Market, both of which are entirely student-run. I have worked on a poetry magazine, been a Spanish tutor, and volunteered with Wesleyan students for Barack Obama. I am also co-leading an effort to establish an urban studies concentration (essentially a minor) in the Wesleyan curriculum.
OUTSIDE
WESLEYAN:
 I spent my entire junior year in a architecture and urban history program in New York and Paris.  My last three summers have been spent in internships related to these fields, most recently in the urban design department at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago.
AFTER
WESLEYAN:
 I eventually plan to attend graduate school for urban design and landscape architecture.
FAV WES EXPERIENCE:
 My sophomore year I lived in a dorm with thirty-five other students that was really a converted Victorian house.  For Halloween we organized a spectacular haunted house that hundreds of other students came to. It was a really great way to bond with my house and provide a fun event for the rest of campus.
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