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Bennett

Bachelors, History

Oberlin College

About Me

I am a writer living in Brooklyn. I grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, where I majored in history. In college I acted as an editor for the Oberlin Review and as research assistant to an English professor. I spent one semester abroad at Trinity College in Dublin, and another semester at the Williams-Mystic maritime studies program in Mystic, Connecticut. It was an eclectic undergraduate experience that left me interested in many different things and wanting to learn much more. I'm working on that. My main interests are literature, film, and travel. I love getting to know people, their stories and memories, what excites them, what they care about. I think each of us has a lot to learn and we have to help each other along.

Education & Certifications

Oberlin College

Bachelors, History

Test Scores

Perfect Score

SAT

Composite

1520

Verbal

800

Writing

740

Q&A with Bennett

I believe learning depends on mutual respect between teacher and student. Establishing a personal connection and discovering what is exciting or meaningful to a student allows me to find the pathway into a subject that makes the information immediate and worth caring about. The teachers who have affected my life most were the ones who took a personal interest in me, while showing me how any given topic fits into a much larger system. It's important to me to encourage the growth of a student's individual creativity and thought when approaching a subject, rather than relying on strict formulas. Training the mind to be critical and creative is much more useful in the long run than any memorized piece of information on its own.