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Like many senior thesis writers at Harvard, Alexander J. Berman ’10 works at a desk cluttered with the accumulation of months of work. But his thesis, titled “The Anomaly,” isn’t—as the title might suggest—a study into a statistical or sociological incongruence. It’s a short film about, in Berman’s words, “an engineer who blows up stars and falls in love with his robot coworker...
...artistic projects in the class because they offer a new way to interact with the material,” she writes in an e-mail. “You gain something more when you not only study religion, history and culture, but use them to construct an original work like designing a mosque for an urban American environment...
Berman faced the daunting task of making low-budget sci-fi believable by applying his hands-on, practical methodology to his special effects work. His process involved figuring out how to use available technology to achieve his desired, futuristic effects...
...Miranda was an invaluable addition to the class, according to course participant Margaret E. Johnson ’11. “I thought it was one of the best classes we had. He was incredibly entertaining, and he made the class even more current and relevant, because his work is so current.” The class studied Miranda’s work as the culmination of a survey of American musical theater history and its political implications...
...Vice President Eric N. Hysen ’11 said that the current system yields “an insane amount of benefits,” fosters an increased work ethic, and provides valuable institutional memory. “It’s worth it,” he said...