Isabel Brandt, Emory University

Advice: Freshman: When you take the PSAT, don’t opt-in to the Student Search Service. Your inbox will never know peace again. Everyone Else: Read an ambitious novel, if only just to say that you’ve done it. War and Peace, Infinite Jest, Ulysses… It’ll be worth it, I promise.

To Lindsay Iverson: Pitbull’s discography and lots of aggressive lawyer verbiage.

To Lindsay, Kate Heinsch, and Grace Richardson: Judge’s dollar bills and the fate of the mock trial team.

To my cello child Ava Kirr: Boba from Sencha spilled on the Vis carpet and half of all my Caribou mochas.

To Rory Jones-White: The role of pseudo-bass, our fantastic orchestra handshakes, and the Rasputin Just Dance choreography.

To Erika Brandt: The Anna Karenina audiobook on the drive to school, the Visitation meme page, and going way too hard in English class.