My name is Shelley Krause, and I am a storyteller and a matchmaker, both by inclination and profession. At this point in my professional life, that means that I work as a college counselor in an independent school in New Jersey’s Delaware Valley (USA). I spend my autumns coaching essay-writing, my winters modeling and preaching patience and perspective, my springs getting to know a new group of students as I help them get to know themselves, and my summers thinking deeply about each of my rising seniors in turn as I write letters in support of their candidacy for university admission. I Twitter as @butwait, and I also help coordinate the CollegeLists wiki.