My name is Ellen Weintraub, and I am just starting my last semester at GMU.  It’s been a fun ride, but I am ready to graduate.  For the past four years I have been active in my sorority, Alpha Xi Delta.  I spent about a year volunteering at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, a semester abroad interning in Lithuania, and now currently work on-campus at the Center for History and New Media.

I consider myself a bit of a nerd.  I get way too excited when Jeopardy or Criminal Minds are on TV and probably know more about Harry Potter than is ever necessary.  Currently, I am reading the Game of Thrones series and devoting my inner nerd there.  (If you are wondering, the show is very true to the books.)  I love history and am mainly interested in European history.  Because of AP US History in high school, I can name the presidents forwards and backwards.  Luckily, being a history major has given me a chance to travel to Germany, Poland, and Hungary.  After graduation, my younger sister and I are planning to spend a month backpacking Europe and hopefully going to the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria.