Choose one art piece, one monument, and one building. Record observations on site, upon return to campus, read articles on each. Combine research and impressions on each subject into a reflective post.
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Mapping a Global Experience
If I were to caption this image, or the entire trip, it would read like the headline of an Onion article: "STEM Student Experiences Art; Doesn't Spontaneously Combust"
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Pick Up A Pen, Start Writing
Reflection Log 4: Choose one of the buildings/ works of art we looked at in class and one reading and discuss them in relation to one another in a meaningful way.
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There’s Nothing Like Summer in the City
Reflection Log 3: Charles Baudelaire and Georg Simmel describe the experience of/in the modern city. Which one do you identify with in terms of your own experience? Do his/their ideas shape your thoughts about our current journey?
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Three Fundamental Truths
Reflection Log 2: Write 3 of your intentions for your time in New York and explain why you have chosen each one.
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Gotta Be My Own Man, Like My Father But Bolder
Reflection Log 1: Considering our discussion on Tuesday and personal identity maps today, write about one characteristic that you confirmed about yourself AND one idea shared by one of your peers that was new to you.
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Research Right Now #1: Viruses
I’ve never been a fan of what I call “flat notes”. The kind of notes where the text just runs down the page in one incomprehensible, daunting wall of words. I tend to take those only during lecture courses where I don’t have time to make them my own with doodles, diagrams, and colors. So when I started a research journal over the summer to refresh myself for the incoming college biology courses (after a two-year gap from sophomore biology), I took the time to have a bit of fun. Viruses have fascinated me for years. The idea that a microorganism can take a cell and hijack it, turning it…
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“Making American Girls” Introductory Essay
The word [dainty] carries two connotations, both as antiquated and subjective as the term girlhood itself. One, telling us that girls are to be small and delicate; that they’re supposed to be soft and traditionally feminine... The second calls into question the stereotype that women are immensely fastidious and picky, that we’re impossible to please unless everything is absolutely perfect.
