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A Random Walk with Serendip

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Biology 103
2005 First Paper
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Buprenorphine: The Drug Addicts Should have Seen Years Ago

Scott Sheppard


It is an understated fact that Biology is inherently a social science rather than a distanced, objective study of living things. This becomes quite apparent in medicine when the preconceived distinction between social...

What is the cause of Tourette’s Syndrome? Is it genetic? Is there a cure? These are the questions I am most interested in exploring. Why do you ask? A friend of mine has Tourette’s, but his symptoms have improved over the years because of his medication. His tics occurred quite frequently before he was put on medication. He had a hard time controlling his tics, thus making it hard for him to concentrate in school, keeping friends he made, and so on. I want to know what...

 Mary Encabo

 

This essay looks at the importance of creativity in the process of learning.

 

Fostering Student Learning through Creativity

 

            As a first year college student who is encountering...

 I'm a junior Spanish major and Chemistry minor at Bryn Mawr with plans to attend medical school after graduation.  Although from my Spanish classes I have experience with literary analysis, I would definitely classify myself as a science person above other things.  I just returned from a semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and absolutely loved it there.  I play soccer and lacrosse here and Bryn Mawr.  I also just love sports in general, especially football...

This poems were generated using Poem Generator.

 

1

Ah, media!
Generated, digital Adas digitally teleporting a male, performed cyborg.
Transporting mockingly like a illusion computer.
Humans critique like digital machines.
Notation, identity, and music.


 2

Golly gosh, hierarchy!
Lord, decode!
Why does the SRA hyper reading?
Never...

 Evaluation essay

I admit here that I chose to take this course because it was cross-listed with Computer Science and English, my major choices. I somehow missed but did assume the Gender Studies aspect. As it turned out, that was more important than I expected.

I can see why discussion is becoming a problem in academia today, which I guess links this concern to Hayles and her advice against overvaluing closed off peer-review. There is so much insularity and focus...

In Slaughterhouse-5, Vonnegut presents us with Billy Pilgrim, a man who was subject to all of war’s physical destruction and mental hollowing.  Throughout the novel, Pilgrim wonders through in acceptance of all of the situations that are presented to him.  He readily allows himself to be kidnapped by Aliens, he accepts when he will die and he accepts that he is in war.  Despite the main character’s acquiescence, Vonnegut displays the Serenity prayer in the novel, a mantra of...

(meeting all together in Mark's room)

I. Gallery walk--plus coursekeeping  (11:25-11:40)
put your mosaics up on the wall/distribute them around the room/wander...enjoy!

keep your eyes open for related events, attending and reporting about them on Serendip:
last weekend:...

We will be staging our "art gallery" in Dalton 212A on Monday @ 2:30--
just so we'll have a little more space to move around, enjoy what we are seeing...

This is the full text of the interview I conducted via Skype chat with a freshman at Haverford High School.

[7:45:05 PM] Amophrast: Feel free to talk openly and freely about yourself and your experiences. This information will be published on Serendip, a website that is publicly accessible, but at this point or any point in the future you can choose an alias to go by or request that certain information or excerpts is/are made private. If you do not specify a particular alias, you...