“Me and three other people started the run to Copley Square,” freshman Sarah Greenbaum recalls with apparent nonchalance.
Her good friend and fellow freshman Duncan Menaker also has fond memories of the night.
“We were in Copley Square together…top of the library pillars together screaming ‘Obama!’”
This is one of Greenbaum’s best stories of her time here so far, going to a school she loves, in a city she loves. And her housing situation…she lives at the Courtyard Marriott…might make her fellow Emerson freshmen jealous.
“My bed is a queen sized bed,” says Greenbaum, 19-year-old print/multimedia journalism major.
Her bathroom’s “a little more than half the size” of a double in the Little Building.
But before all this, she was another high school student who wasn’t sure about which path to take.
“The funny thing is,” she recalls, “I didn’t really think of Emerson that much at all. I wasn’t that excited about choosing which college I was going to apply to.”
But Emerson grew on her as she discovered more about the school and the city.
“The thing I liked was that it had this artsy feel about it without being a specific arts school,” says Greenbaum, whose interests include various forms of art.
“I did a lot of painting and drawing in high school…and then I picked up photography.”
She also has a musical background.
“I played the piano for about six years. I eventually quit when I was in seventh or eighth grade. I picked up guitar…played guitar throughout high school,” says Greenbaum
She also listens to a “such a wide variety of music” that includes old favorites Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and new arrivals like Bon Iver.
The Easthampton, New York native grew up with a younger sister and four older brothers, one being an artist of sorts, studying architecture. Her eldest brother started the artistic trend in the family, and has a career of which film majors might take note.
“My oldest brother is a film producer, making movies on his own. He does have his own production company.”
With high school over, Greenbaum now embraces a different life, pursuing some new interests. One of them is her current dream job.
“I really want to do travel…minor in photography,” says the aspiring photojournalist, who also enjoys classes like Culture and Power, and her Research Writing class on social change.
“I worked a little on the school paper…mostly in graphic design.”
She also enjoys her time with the new friends she’s made on campus. One of those friends, Menaker, characterizes her personality this way:
“Sweetheart…mature…tea…she works at Tealuxe,” he jokes about his tea-loving friend.
Menaker first met Greenbaum as he randomly hung out at her hotel, ending up in the then-stranger’s room. He and the resident hit it off.
“We’ve been good friends ever since,” he says.
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