Your Average Harvard Student... Psych!

At first glance, Ella Shapiro-Deisenhouse ’07 looks just like your average Harvard student.

It would be hard to pick her out in a crowd. (I approached seven different people before I found her in the Church Street Starbucks this Saturday, and three of them were men.)

Shapiro-Deisenhouse is so ordinary you might even call her boring.

Well, you would be wrong—and at the same time, totally right!

Shapiro-Deisenhouse is literally a zombie. Unbeknownst to her Allston Burr Senior Tutor, Shapiro-Deisenhouse leads a secret double life and occasionally does the “Zombie Mash.”

“I had no idea I was living with a zombie all this time,” says Katalina Richter ’07, Shapiro-Deisenhouse’s roommate. “But now that I think about it, she really is a graveyard smash.”