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...which were fully implemented last fall, saying the new system discouraged students from putting much thought into their evaluations.“I had large numbers of students who simply checked off some numbers and then went away,” said Philip J. Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature. “I learned nothing from the evaluations that I got this fall.”“The process that you are implementing is not deeply considered,” Fisher concluded, to applause.In the end, after a roundabout debate over parliamentary procedure...
...rough transition for the whole family. Sanjin’s sister had to learn English, take courses as a junior at Union-Endicott High School, and try to break into the social cliques that had already fully formed among her peers. Sanjin’s father Ibrahim was forced to take work below that of what he was accustomed; an engineer in Bosnia, his education wasn’t deemed sufficient for an engineering job in the States. Sanjin’s mother stayed at home...
Goldman based her English and American Literature and Language senior thesis on her behind-the-scenes experiences. She examined a 19th-century British phenomenon called toy theatre, in which children could construct miniature theaters and put on productions in their own homes. One show she analyzed, “Alice in Wonderland,” led to her latest production, coming out this spring in the Loeb...
...Mitnick’s work is saturated with his distinctive style. In “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” the antagonism between the peanut butter sandwich and the jelly sandwich vendors ends in the invention of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. An English concentrator, Mitnick’s senior thesis is a dark musical comedy called “Cardhouse” that he hopes will be “unlike most musicals people see.” The musical, which grapples with the difficult themes of adultery, incest, and autism, will be read...
...beginning I was kind of unhappy because I [went from] dancing as a job to not [dancing] at all.” Having only attended high school for half days, Altenburg wanted to make sure she got a full college experience. But the English and American Literature and Language concentrator acknowledges with a smile that that may not have quite come true. “I don’t know if I’ve really gotten that,” she says. “But I like the hybrid that I’ve become...