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...high anxiety with high hopes of scholarly ambition,” Adams says.He enrolled in a course on ancient Greek, hoping to be able to read Classical texts soon. Adams failed the course that first semester, and stayed away from Classics from then on, focusing instead on his passion for music.Adams studied under Leon Kirchner, a professor of musical composition and composer who Adams says had a definitive impact on his education at Harvard, for better and for worse. “He was tall, very handsome. Terribly serious. He didn’t have much interest or connection with...
...breadth in her artistic powers.“There are some people who are doing film all the way through or painting all the way through. It was important to me to get at what I was trying to do from every different angle,” Salazar says.Her passion for the arts began early on, when she took a photography class in fifth grade.“I got really into it,” Salazar says. “I built a black room in my basement. I was really interested in the formal aspects...
...sink, legs, or even somebody else when I was younger,” he says, drumming his fingers on a bench in Lowell House’s courtyard.Though he played bass guitar in a blues band in addition to studying piano for eight years, Ogunnaike’s true passion, drumming, developed by chance during his freshman year.“One of my friends dragged me to a West African dance class, and I was hesitant because I thought it would be for girls, but the instructor was also a drummer,” he said.The instructor, Sidi Mohammed...
Unexpected twists are nothing new for Chang. An Applied Math and Economics concentrator while at Harvard—she baked cookies for the Leverett Grill while an undergrad in the house—Chang abandoned her post-college job as a management consultant and switched to her real passion: baking...
...spread the ashes of a pub mate. Both Swift's first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner(1980), in which a dying man reflects on his life, and his most recent one until now, The Light of Day(2003), about a disgraced former policeman trying to unravel a crime of passion, embody another of Swift's techniques: the action takes place in a single day, Ulysses-style. Tomorrow is a tool kit of such Swiftian tricks. Important facts are dripped sparingly, the narration is first person, and this time the action encompasses a single night. Lying sleepless next to her oblivious...