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My project is all about the culture of Bryn Mawr and if it is more benefial or non- beneficial to students and the faculty. Below i have attached a power point that thoroughly explains my project, and I have also attached a picture showing the responses that were taken during my interviews. I hope that this project enlightens you in some way.
Welcome, all, into the next-to-final week of work.
I want to say how much I enjoyed the sense of our exhibit emerging in collaboration last Friday, and am looking forward to our final Friday session this week. Once you've worked through Carrie's suggestions, I'm glad to do one more editing of your wall text. So, please: after you've finalized these in Jody's class tomorrow, send me your texts for proofreading and editing.
We'll meet tomorrow in Jody's classroom, Taylor G, in order to hear 7 presentations, in the order listed below.
(If you are on the list, please be sure that whatever you are projecting is up on Serendip by classtime;
this will help us to be efficient about the technical details here, so we can spend our
time on meatier matters!)
Before classtime, EVERYONE please read these notes:
Becca and Irene on making friends: /oneworld/changing-our-story-2016/making-friends-6-week-project
Al Jazeera, “New Zealand’s relentless housing crisis” (Oct. 18, 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd1c96kpccw
(this is pretty long but really cool)
History of International Students at Bryn Mawr College
Acknowledgements:
We want to thank Jennifer Russell, the associate director of admission and international recruitment, and Christiana Dobrzynski, the college archivist, for their invaluable support, information and time.
Umeko Tsuda (Ume Tsuda, 津田 梅子) was the first international student at Bryn Mawr
● Born December 31, 1864 in Ushigome, Japan
When I arrived at Bryn Mawr college three months ago, I was excited. I was ready to start my adult life and meet new, smart, passionate people who would influence my mind and my educational growth. However, as I slowly acclimate to the culture and the bubble that bryn mawr is, parts of my identity felt polarized. That the community embraced specific diversities in a neo-liberal sense but failed to accept all of my identities. I, specifically, saw a movement toward LGBT politics and women's issues but a lack of race awareness and a complete blindness to socioeconomics.
Two summer’s ago, between eleventh and twelfth grade, I held an internship in a malaria vaccine research lab. The vaccine the laboratory was testing was a self-assembling protein nanoparticle, and my job for eight weeks, as told to me by the lab’s principal investigator in an email, was to “characterize the protein.” At that point, I knew how to analyze the characterization of Lady Macbeth, Huck Finn, and Nick Carraway but I had no idea what it meant to characterize a protein. Was I to determine its personality? And how did the researchers not know the personality and nature of the protein if they so specifically engineered it?