Varsha Prem is a first-year student at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. On August 29, 2014, she turned eighteen years old. This year she graduated from West-Windsor Plainsboro High School South, where she was a member of the debate team. In her senior year she was a semifinalist for National Merit and a U.S. Presidential Scholars candidate. During her high school career she took an honors physics class, for which she contributed to this project about holograms:
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This summer Varsha’s family moved from Princeton, New Jersey to Mount Laurel, New Jersey. On July 18, 2014, she and her mother found free parking in New York City.
Varsha listens to Michael Jackson and Paramore. She also enjoys the movies Toy Story, Batman: The Dark Knight, Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Inception. Some of her favorite television shows are Air Gear, The Nonsence Box, and Katekyo. She is a fan of the manga pop-culture genre.
Varsha has 192 Facebook friends. She likes three different Facebook pages related to the Harry Potter series character Bellatrix Lestrange. She has not made public posts since 2011, but her public profile still hosts some mysterious topics. On April 23, 2011 she asked the people of Facebook, with no context, to promote a very specific lifestyle:
On August 10, 2011 she wrote a public, cryptic goodbye to an unknown target audience:
The mysteries of Varsha continue in the fact that one cannot find any photographs of her on the Internet. The blue, black, and white piece she uses to represent herself on Facebook is mystifying:
Varsha Prem is a student of the Thinking and Writing Through New Media first-year writing seminar at Gallatin. She will be posting to this website throughout this semester. Until then, the web will be left wondering what she looks like, what exactly cactus love is, and who or what Varsha said goodbye to in April 2011.