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...doing this sort of work anywhere else.”Four years of immersion in the HRDC community has created lasting connections. Kaufman met most of her closest friends through HRDC, and the literature concentrator’s thesis even involved a translation of a French play into English. But for Kaufman, nothing rivals the moment of satisfaction when a production comes together.“Seeing something that beautiful and moving that you’ve envisioned in your head actually come to life in front of you is unlike anything else,” she says.Kaufman looks away...
...very critical of the North End. I live here and I hate it.” The second thing I learned was that home for the retired Mr. Tognetti was and forever will be Mantova, a city in Northern Italy. The third thing I learned was that his English was less than fluent. He was almost more authentic than I could handle.“The people who live here and visit think that it’s Italy,” Tognetti said. “But it’s not like it is in Italy. There?...
...senior crew,” she says of the influential semester.Similarly, Kargman has been intent on pursuing a special concentration since her first week on campus. With the help of mentors Robert Scanlon and Deborah Foster, Kargman has crafted Theater Studies, which uses the lens of theater to study English and psychology—a combination Kargman calls “pre-med for acting.”“The ideas of consciousness and the inner monologue and the human psyche, those are all so important to develop a full, complex character,” Kargman says.Kargman...
...Continents have become classifications of convention, rather than strict geography. If continents were simply “continuous bodies of land,” as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, there would be only four—America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and Australia. Since that is not the case, it is clear that “continent” now includes national political borders, language isoglosses, and historical circumstances. For example, although Greenland is physically closer to North America, it is a Danish province, and thus a part of the European continent...
...life...Over the course of the next two years, I witnessed 826 Valencia become a veritable institution, as well as host to a really lively community of writers, students, and teachers.” Feeney dove headfirst into the program, attending as many workshops as he could while tutoring English as a second language and serving on the student editorial board of Houghton-Mifflin’s Best American Nonrequired Reading List. After high school, Feeney nervously anticipated leaving the program that had become such an important part of his life. “I guess you could...