Great Minds
by Ruth Kinsey, class of 2011 | Great Minds— Spring 2009
The first time I stepped foot in Tennessee was August 2007, a week before classes started. I arrived at the Nashville Airport armed with two suitcase, a backpack, appliances pre-ordered online from Target and Bed, Bath and Beyond, and an interest in American political science.
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by Emma Cofer, Class of 2009 | Fall 2008— Great Minds
If Paris is for lovers, then New York City is for writers.
If Paris is for lovers, then New York City is for writers. No place is so synonymous with the written word and the community surrounding it as New York. And why wouldn’t it be? NYC is “the capital of the world” and an undisputed creative hub, and writing is what brings other worlds into the public domain.
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by David Amsalem, class of 2009 | Great Minds— Spring 2008
“Well, that’s great you want to volunteer, but what do you have to contribute?” This painful, yet relevant question was posed over the phone by one of a group of Italian doctors who were running a hospital in a remote part of Tibet.
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