Rebecca O’Brien ’06
2003-2004
Undergraduate Columns
I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood…
The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner’s The Sound and…
I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I’ve recovered sense…
Rebecca graduated in 2006 and moved to Jordan, where she was a founding faculty member at King’s Academy, the first co-ed boarding school in the Middle East. Since returning to the East Coast, Rebecca has written for Newsweek/The Daily Beast, the Wall Street Journal, Parade, Forbes.com, and Slate’s XX Factor blog. Rebecca is now a staff reporter at the Bergen County Record, and is working on a book about her experience in Jordan. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.