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Clear filtersFebruary 21, 2014
A Winter Term recap of the Practicum in Museum Education course at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum.
February 13, 2014
"Wall Street would be a whole lot better with a little more Tappan Square in it."
February 9, 2014
Some final thoughts on Winter Term '14... Here is to a month well spent, laughs well had and much appreciated personal growth.
February 8, 2014
Winter Term doesn't have to be the most exciting thing; mine wasn't!
February 4, 2014
The question of what I did for Winter Term has many answers.
January 21, 2014
What does it mean to find yourself (metaphorically that is)? Is it your wild intuition? Is it your carefree personality? What makes self-discovery useful for you?
January 7, 2014
Winter Term swept me up in a snowstorm and transported me down South. Now that I am here in New Orleans I have all these cool things to do, like...
February 24, 2013
Entirely belated musings on the end of winter term and the death of a famous explorer by beach-stabbing. I know that it's Alexandre, not Alexander, but I feel like he'd be cool with it.
February 16, 2013
When I was in my end-of-semester-only-able-to-think-in-wordplay stage, National Story Translating Month (a nod to NaNoWriMo) was the title I almost gave my winter term project, which was translating a German short story into English. Luckily, a friend intervened and I ended up calling it "Winter Term German Translation Intensive." Alas, sometimes professionalism has to win out over cleverness.
February 9, 2013
This is the primary view that I was afforded of the man behind the voice of the Harry Potter audiobooks, one night during Winter Term.