Shara Azad
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Shara Azad is a senior at Brown, where she is double concentrating in
Literary Arts and Biology. She spent the summer interning with Patch
Media for the Coastal New England region. In between writing and her
science-related activities, she enjoys culinary experiments and
watching TV. The post-graduation world frightens her.

Blog Entries by Shara Azad

Summer Employment: Failures of an Aspiring Greeting Card Writer

Posted January 27, 2012 | 01/27/12 10:17 AM ET

Three summers ago, I desperately tried to find work as a waitress. I wrote an email to my dad explaining how I wanted to "gain valuable life experiences" that would be "integral to my growth and development as a writer," but really I just wanted a job that would pay...

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Neopian Economics

Posted November 1, 2011 | 11/01/11 06:20 PM ET

As a college student, the extent to which I am unaware of the world around me is a little embarrassing.

Living in the campus bubble without a TV and a predilection toward reading various versions of my horoscope instead of news in my downtime meant that I was largely...

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Applying to College: Online Forums and the "Chances" Game

Posted September 27, 2011 | 09/27/11 07:58 PM ET

I do not need a blog entry to remind me what I was doing on this day in 2007, because I did the same thing everyday for that entire overly stressful year. I would hurry home from school to open my laptop to the homepage of the College...

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