The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
Yesterday our entire class took the Myers-Briggs personality test. I found out that I am an INFP, which means that my primary way of dealing with the world is Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving....
View ArticleLaughing Club: Fake it Till You Make It (a wrap-up of PY281, Personality)
I’m pretty sure the people walking past Tutt Science this morning thought my class was going crazy. There we were, standing in the quad in front of the science building, maniacally laughing as we...
View ArticleFlying (or not flying) by the seat of our pants
I am a notorious planner, addicted to schedules and reliant on lists. Besides making the unpredictability of next year almost more than my slightly neurotic personality can handle, it makes the...
View ArticleBarcelona
As expected, Barcelona was an experience filled with unplanned adventures, unanticipated detours, and the unwitting commitment of several cultural faux pas. Like the time we thought we climbed...
View ArticleThe Site of Sanisera: An Overview
As usual with my first posts, I have been struggling to write the introduction post to the class portion of this blog. If I were to jump into all the thoughts and events without a background, I feel as...
View ArticleIndiana Jones Wannabe
I would like to set one thing straight immediately: archaeology is nothing like what you have seen in the Indiana Jones movies. Though I would revel in the adventure of outmaneuvering an ancient set of...
View ArticleOn Pottery
I confess to not being a pottery person. What gets my neurons firing are human remains and the stories that these ancient remnants of life can tell about a persons life and environment. Earlier this...
View ArticleMenorcan Excursion #1
Started the day out by driving to the highest point on the island to see across to mainland Spain. The view was slightly obscured by the cloud we drove into. We could barely see monument at the...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Musing.
I sometimes wonder if I’m the right student to have blogging as the student curator. The term has connotations. Connotations that I’m actively involved with campus life, that I’m someone always around,...
View ArticleElementary Chinese
好久不见!(Translation: Long time no see!) I’m back blogging for CC, but this time I am not blogging about a grueling 400 level Environmental Science class… This time I’ll be filling you in on a class that...
View ArticleMenorcan Excursion #2
Students hike along the Mediterranean coast to the remains of a prehistoric settlement situated atop a picturesque cliff. In true CC style, a student scales the ancient caves which were hand-carved to...
View ArticleThe Insurgency of Art
John’s last post outlined most of what we did during First Week, but let me update you on Friday’s class, because it was awesome! We’ve been studying a lot of political theory (and practice) and we’re...
View ArticleCrazy Adventures (And We Aren’t Even Abroad Yet): Part One
Hello friends, This week has been wild. To start with, we’ve been learning about an incredible number and variety of performance artists over the past few days, which I’ve found exhilarating and so, so...
View ArticleCrazy Adventures (And We Aren’t Even Abroad Yet): Part Two
Hey again! We presented our second round of group performances today. The assignment this time was to do a site-specific performance with a strong intention, one that would “intervene with social...
View ArticleDobro Jutro… or vece or whatever.
Good Morning! I say that because I’m conditioned to say that when I wake up from a couple hours of slumber. For example, now. The problem remains, though, that it is 8:00Pm. I probably shouldn’t have...
View ArticleStories From Serbia (In No Particular Order)
1. We saw an old man walking his pet bunny. Apparently pet bunnies are a thing here. 2. We went to the ruins of the National Library. It was bombed during WWII and has been kept intact ever since. Dah...
View ArticleActing and its Effects on the Body, Mind
Zdravo! Belgrade is a picturesque city. Our hotel sits on a large traffic circle through which trolleys and busses and cars come careening with little regard for one another. A few blocks down the main...
View ArticleStories from Serbia Pt. 2
Hello! I got back to CC about 24 hours ago and now that I’ve recovered a bit from the epic plane journey, I figure it’s time to share some more stories with you while they’re fresh! 1. We did a...
View ArticleJet Lag as an Act of Insurgent Art
For the first time since starting to provide words for Colorado College’s blog, I am going to relate the content of the post to the title: on Tuesday our class will be presenting our final performances...
View ArticlePictures From Serbia
A very, very select few: We found a Chinatown in Belgrade. #globalization? I had just gotten off the plane when we went to this place that had pictures of Che and Stalin. (From L to R: Che, Stalin,...
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