Max is a sophomore planning on concentrating in Computer Science. When he isn't running or working, he enjoys consuming large quantities of peanut butter and gulping water to stay hydrated.
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Nick Romig
Nick Romig '21 is a concentrator in Computer Science-Economics from Springfield, Oregon.
Ingrid Ren
Ingrid '23 is from the San Francisco Bay Area and plans on concentrating in English and Math. She enjoys writing about her life, eating grapefruit, and learning to play the ukulele.
George Daccache
George is a senior at Brown concentrating in Applied Math and History. He enjoys running, baking, self-drags, and the Oxford comma.
Yudu Zang
This is Ryan and he is currently a junior concentrating in History, even though he applied to Brown as a biology major and spent his freshmen year studying computer science. He loves tennis and drawing :)
Shanzeh Sayied
Shanzeh is a sophomore concentrating in Neuroscience. She enjoys blue room muffins, watching jeopardy, and NYT crosswords.
Matthew Dai
Matt is a junior in Brown's newly-founded Zoom School of Online Learning concentrating in Business Economics & East Asian Studies. Some of his friends also know him as Maddai. When he's not writing reviews, running Mahjong Club (join Mahjong Club and learn how to play!), studying, eating, or sleeping, Maddai is watching YouTube, thinking about food, or going to Boston to indulge in food.
Izzie Kim
Izzie ‘22 is a Psychology concentrator from New York. She is a cheerleader for Brown and loves skiing, pasta, and dogs.
Hai Ning Ng
Hai Ning is an anthropology concentrator from Singapore who misses Blueno and the Blue Room.
Madhu Subramanian
Madhu is a First-Year from Portland, Oregon intending to concentrate in Public Health. He loves coconut ice cream, owls, and pineapple on pizza. Go Brown Bears!
Devan Paul
Devan Paul is a first-year who will probably end up concentrating in Public Health and Urban Studies. He loves fog, well-funded public transportation, and super obnoxious arty horror movies.
Dylan Letellier
Dylan is a senior from Fredericksburg, VA. An English concentrator, she is passionate about youth literacy. She also enjoys hiking, watching Survivor, and perusing other Critical Review posts.
Mimi Sanford
Mimi is an Architecture concentrator from Easton, Maryland. She enjoys drawing, playing video games with her friends, and irresponsibly wasting money at Bagel Gourmet.
Kaitlyn Mi
Kaitlyn is a Cognitive Neuroscience concentrator from Nashville, Tennessee. She spends her free time creating kpop playlists for her friends, avoiding the consumption of fruits, and subtly trying to recruit people to join Brown Science Olympiad.
Shenandoah Duraideivamani
I was born in LA but I grew up in India. I am a sophomore and planning to concentrate in Computer Science. I love any food that is spicy and I'd eat curry for life.
Lauren Toneatto
Lauren Toneatto '22 is an English and History of Art & Architecture concentrator from Westchester, New York. When she's not sifting through Critical Review surveys, you can find her trying out new restaurants on Thayer Street.
Annette Lee
Annette is from Champaign, Illinois and concentrating in International and Public Affairs. She dreams of Providence getting a yarn shop.
Tony Zhu
Tony Zhu is an APMA-Econ from Beijing, China. He is a giant foodie and gamer, devoting his time to video games and traveling to find the next best thing for his palate.
Charlotte DeVaughn
Charlotte '22 is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is double concentrating in Social Analysis and Research and Statistics. She enjoys singing, playing soccer and laughing with her friends.
Aubrey Li
A dreamer, realist, language lover (all kinds!), book worm, writer, traveller, food-hunter combined :)
Hsiao Shan Peck
Peck thinks the Vdub is better than the Ratty, and welcomes anyone to fight her on this.
Elisabeth Steele
Elisabeth "Lynden" Steele is from Rowayton, Connecticut, just a two and a half-hour drive from campus... She has yet to declare a concentration (thanks to the open curriculum!), but is nonetheless interested in areas including Literary Arts and Gender Studies!
Andrew Li
Andrew is a first-year from Virginia planning on concentrating in computer science and economics.
Orly Richter
Orly is a prospective Public Health concentrator from New Haven, Connecticut who enjoys baking, photography, and eating bagels
Nora Ong
Nora is a member of the Class of 2023, double concentrating in Environmental Studies and Public Policy. Outside of the Critical Review, she is on the sailing team.
Maureen O'Malley
Maureen is an Applied Math and Public Policy concentrator from Buffalo, NY! She is an avid fan of Mexican and Mediterranean food, follows The Bachelor religiously, and loves to thrift shop.
Victoria Rose
Victoria is from rural West Virginia (and it's all she ever talks about—be warned). When she's not doing geology-concentrator things (licking rocks), she enjoys reading, crocheting, rousing discussions about why crocheting is better than knitting, and terrorizing Brown students who are JUST TRYING TO STUDY IN PEACE, OKAY??? as a member of the Brown Band.
Nhu Phung
Nhu is an envrionmental studies and anthropology concentrator from Hanoi, Vietnam. She obsessively shop during every shopping period, and Critical Review has been a trusty companion during her four years at Brown. She likes to calendar stalk people.
Vineetha Yadlapalli
Vineetha Yadlapalli '22 is a Neuroscience concentrator from Franklin, MA. On campus, she is also involved in the Brown Brain Bee and Connect For Health. She enjoys reading, singing, and exploring food places in the city!
Emily Hinds
Emily is a first-year from Seattle, Washington considering concentrating in math or French. She loves running and making friendship bracelets.
Ziwen Zhou
Ziwen Zhou '23 is an APMA/CS concentrator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He loves trying new foods, spending time and nature, and playing strategy games. He may or may not be a fun guy...
Noble Brigham
Noble Brigham '24 is a first-year student from Philadelphia interested in concentrating in history and English. He enjoys interesting scandals, investigative journalism, and long emails from the Brown administration (sometimes all three at once).
Zachary J Weachter
Zach (he/him) is a Sophomore concentrating in Cognitive Neuroscience from a small town in Southern New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. At Brown, he participates in student theatre, the Chorus, and Meiklejohn advising.
Ryan Lum
Ryan is an Applied Maths with Economics and Music concentrator. When not studying, he spends his time cooking, writing songs, and obsessing over cheesecake.
Kristoffer Balintona
Kristoffer is a freshman from Chicago, Illinois. He likes staying in his bed but has made it a goal to try new things in college.
Alexander Nadirashvili
Alex is a first-year, soon-to-be English concentrator from New Jersey, though he'll make sure to let you know he's only 30 minutes away from NYC. He enjoys embroidery, hot chocolate, and annual binges of Gilmore Girls.
Haley Seo
Haley is an APMA-Bio concentrator from Los Angeles, California who eats lemons and limes as if they're oranges; feel free to ask her if her taste buds are okay.
Holly Zheng
Holly is a first-year student considering Linguistics and maybe Computer Science. She was born and raised in Beijing, China, and she went to high school in Massachusetts. When she is not writing or coding, she enjoys every opportunity to play her clarinet.
Rebecca Herman
Rebecca is a sophomore concentrating in history, which can be attributed to her obsession with 1776 and Hamilton. Aside from being a writer for the Critical Review, she is a foodie, ballroom dancer, and RPDR junkie.
Olivia Johnson
Olivia is a freshman from New York concentrating in Computer Science. She enjoys playing soccer, browsing through Netflix, and frequenting Bagel Gourmet Olé.
Aditya Kapur
Aditya is a first-year from New Delhi, India concentrating in Mathematics and possibly Economics or History. He enjoys reading the news and history articles, watching good TV shows and movies and traveling.
Lawrence Huang
Lawrence Huang '21 is a CS concentrator from East Brunswick, NJ. He loves Pusheen, basketball, and looping the same song over and over.
Juliette Woodcum
Juliette is a second year planning on studying Literary Arts and enjoys expressing her work through both literary and visual means. She enjoys writing, trying new restaurants, and exploring new cities. Juliette is also pursuing a certificate in Entrepreneurship and focuses on socially responsible start ups. Oftentimes she can be found holed up in nooks around campus or waiting in a line in the Blue Room to get a much needed caffeine boost.
Zeke Hertz
Zeke Hertz is a first year Political Science concentrator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He enjoys hiking, running, and trying new foods.
Oliver Kneen
Oliver Kneen is a first-year student from Houston, Texas. His ideal Friday night is spent watching Netflix while eating Indian food, but he also enjoys writing short stories, preparing meals, and playing board games.
Tommy Bellaire
Tommy Bellaire is a first year from Winchester, MA. He loves the outdoors, music, anything wholesome, and studying maps.
Ruth Schlenker
Ruth is a first year at Brown with potential concentrations in Social Analysis & Research and Modern Culture & Media.
Katarina Fernandez
Katarina is a transfer student from Sacramento, CA. She has no idea what her concentration should be.
Eliza Berman
Eliza is a first-year from New York City potentially concentrating in Computer Science. She enjoys being outdoors and she loves coffee and chocolate.
Rebecca Carcieri
Rebecca is a political science and economics concentrator from Warwick, Rhode Island.
Andrew Yan
Andrew is a first-year coming from Boston, MA, and is excited to be able to contribute to the Critical Review after having spent so many hours on there already. He is considering concentrating in biochemistry, but has an interest in history and international relations. Outside of the Critical Review, Andrew enjoys sailing, frisbee, and cooking.
Claire Zeller
Claire is a PoliSci concentrator from Los Angeles, CA. She likes tofu, frogs, and Russia.
Cristian Loor
Cristian is a sophomore from New Jersey planning on studying psychology. When they're not doing homework or writing Critical Reviews, you can find them screaming quietly to the latest twist in a novella.
Kaitlan Bui
Kaitlan is a sophomore from Southern California (West Coast Best Coast) concentrating in English. She loves reading handwritten letters, attempting to roast marshmallows over a beach bonfire, and taking her younger cousin out to eat ice cream and borrow library books. Kaitlan finds writing bios difficult and would rather get to know people over a bowl of Andrew’s (fake) pho.
Danny Li
Danny is a sports fan, movie enthusiast, and music lover. In his opinion, the Critical Review is what sets Brown apart from other institutions in the nation.
Shiyi Zhang
Shiyi Zhang '22 is an applied math-economics concentrator with additional interests in cognitive sciences. She strives to combine the two disciplines and examine behavioral economics. Her home town is Beijing, China, but she left for high school in Wisconsin. People know her as Sherry, who excessively enjoy to organize things and to teach all kinds of things that she is slightly good at.