Word: vana
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Still, there are things that Vana wants to do that he hasn’t gotten around to yet. “I promise myself that I will start writing poetry once I turn 20, but the time is getting near,” he says. “I have to get ready...
George “Bud” Vana ’03, an advanced standing junior in Winthrop House, found his way from the rural Northeast Kingdom of Vermont to the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. “I think Harvard’s library system was a major reason I decided to come here,” says Vana, who is particularly interested in Arabic, Persian and Armenian poetry. “I became fascinated with the mysticism of the Middle East and, eventually, the poetry that went along with...
...Vana is taking six classes this semester, including Arabic, Persian, Classic Armenian, a sophomore tutorial, a junior tutorial and a Near Eastern studies class. Yet Vana thinks this semester will be pretty easy. “Language classes are great because you don’t have to worry about a curve or being in the top percentile. You either learn the language or you don?...
...Vana doesn’t spend all his time reading poetry and practicing calligraphy. He spends his Sundays as an on-call volunteer for the Red Cross, works as a User Assistant, tutors in Arabic and organic chemistry, is an honorary member of the Society of Arab Students and plays the trumpet, drums and baritone horn in the band. He finds time to relax by watching movies and sleeping on the weekends, with the occasional party thrown in. “I try to make it a policy to get out of Harvard once a week...