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Winter Term Routine

January 26, 2012

Tess Yanisch

My winter term project this year is reading Les Miserables , Moby Dick , and Bleak House . I didn't think I was being ambitious, I swear.

Winter Raiders

January 23, 2012

Tess Yanisch

Sci-Fi Hall decided to blow off some finals stress by dressing up as post-apocalyptic bikers, smearing fake blood on our faces, and raiding another theme hall. This happens from time to time.

Becoming BFFs With Procrastination

January 15, 2012

Alanna Bennett

Designing your own winter term project is an exciting thing. You get a kind of freedom of form and topic in these projects that traditional semesters don't often offer. It can also be, in execution, a bit terrifying.

Ah, you'd like two tickets to the laser show?

January 11, 2012

Sophia Chen

The gun show is sold out for now. While you wait for the next time we tour, please enjoy a description of my Winter Term/honors project. Since you're so accommodating, let me also offer you two tickets to the potassium show.

My Winter Term

December 20, 2011

Marsha Lynn Bragg

I'm kinda envious, especially since many students pursue their winter-term project in another country, perhaps some city with a warmer clime than northeast Ohio in January.

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