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Winter Term: A Project a Day

January 24, 2011

Griff Radulski

The idea is simple. I have to make one thing every day - anything from a wolf hat with headphones sewn into the brim to the slightly ambiguous "important arrangements."

Keep-ing it Real

January 20, 2011

Tess Yanisch

Winter Term co-ops and cinnamon rolls! Includes lots and lots of process pictures, a la Ma'ayan.

A Robo-pansy's Winter Term Project

January 19, 2011

Sophia Chen

I'm on campus working on making pedagogical-but-not-pedantic, extremely low-budget videos on various physics demonstrations with physics professor Aaron Santos. It bridges the gap nicely between humanities and science.

The blessings of Winter Term

January 13, 2011

Prof. Sebastiaan Faber

Winter Term still has the delightful feel of space and possibility that I am sure it was designed to have by the brilliant, counter-cultural minds that came up with it some time in the 1970s.

Life in Narnia: Winter Term 2011

January 12, 2011

Tess Yanisch

I'm going to be modeling the spread of information through social networks. Other people in the class are modeling swarms of locusts, a zombie infestation, and deformation of the magnetosphere by solar wind.

Joining worlds.

November 29, 2010

Karl Orozco

...specifically my cultural and artistic worlds. And yes, that is the motto for Oberlin Shansi. Am I hinting at something?

The Winter Term Photo Album

May 18, 2010

Aries Indenbaum

In order to get an idea of the scope of Winter Term projects, we asked students to submit photos. We received shots from the top of Kilimanjaro to the Mad River Valley in Vermont; Prague to Washington, DC; Seattle to Oberlin. Then we made an album.

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