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Favorite vacation spot: Disney World! I’m never too old to appreciate the idealism and I love Donald Duck...
...tell people at Harvard I am from Orlando but, actually, I grew up at Disney World...
...important events of my life thus far can be plotted neatly on a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious timeline. I made my first trip to the Magic Kingdom with my parents at age two. Baptized in pixie dust and reborn a Mouseketeer, I expressed my gratitude and newfound zest for all things Disney by throwing up on my mother during the ride home. By my fourth birthday, we had relocated from Boston to Orlando, where my parents immediately set out to procure Florida driver’s licenses and annual passes to Disney World...
...with a pre-”Felicity” Keri Russell—as I sat in on a taping of “The Mickey Mouse Club.” The festivities at my ninth birthday party included a Polynesian luau at one of the Disney resort hotels. In fifth grade I represented my school as a recipient of a Disney Dreamer and Doer award for displaying Walt’s favorite characteristics of curiosity, courage, constancy and confidence. I survived my first “camping” experience in the oddly unnatural nature of Fort Wilderness...
Humming “Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to Harvard I go,” I eventually boarded my magic carpet bound for a whole new world. I had packed some Disney stuffed animals and photographs to brighten my dorm room, but I expected to leave the warmth and happiness of Disney World behind for the cold, cutthroat city of Cambridge. But after nearly three years here, I have come to the startling conclusion that Disney World and Harvard are eerily similar. Allow me to explain...