Word: bruzelius
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...Bruzelius recalls applying to four colleges: Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Harvard and Yale. At her interview for Yale, the female interviewer tried to impress upon the young Bruzelius how lucky she was to have a shot at being among the first women accepted to the college...
...feeling was that the shoe was entirely on the other foot," Bruzelius jokes...
Ultimately, Harvard-Radcliffe won out and for the first time in her academic career, according to Bruzelius, she realized it wouldn't be alienating to be both female and intelligent...
Still, she says the novelty quickly wore off. With a "frustrating" English department that didn't yet offer the literature major that she hoped for and what she saw as relatively "blatant" discrimination against women students across the College, Bruzelius says she was unhappy with her undergraduate intellectual life at Harvard...
...meantime, Bruzelius, who was affiliated with Currier House, says she found her niche living in one of the Quad's Jordan dormitories...