Welcome to the QR ALUMNI BULLETIN BOARDAdi just wrote! (Fall 2003) |
| Here is news from Jordan Miller: i'm now at Lebanon Valley College - right near hershey, pa. i'm a perspective religion major with a pending minor in either art or music. my band recently finished its first full length cd called "funkinrockinfolky-jazz from utah." i'm planning a traveling modern worship team that will most likely start touring the mid-atlantic next summer. Send email to Jordan |
| Jessie Marglin is back from India and now at Harvard. |
| Here is news from Jeremy Blaustein(also known as "Fro"): Today in a small fit of procrastination I stumbled onto the good ol' QR website, and found the "Alumni Page" and was overjoyed to see our wonderful random door opener. What a treat!! Anyway, that gave me the idea to drop you an email saying 'hello' and check up how things are at ARHS, and more importantly in the seperate universe of room 204. By the way, is "my" table still in use? I think that it should be preserved in a museum somewhere. Things at Wheaton are very good. Everyone here is extremely friendly, and I have some very interesting classes, especially Writing About Parents and Children and Intro to Comparative Politics. Sadly (well, not that sad) I'm not currently taking any math courses, but they didn't have any that sounded particularly interesting that fit into my schedule this semester. Any "Math & Logic" course will fulfill the graduation or GE requirements, so I think I'm in luck and will find something of interest. Send email to Jeremy |
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This is Adi. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota now and he goes to Macalester College, where he's taking Intro to Sociology, Foundations of US Politics, Elementary Hebrew, and Discrete Mathematics, which he is in the process of dropping so that he can take Creative Writing and also so that he has time for lunch on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. Life is good for Adi...he went to Poland and Israel over the summer which was very good for him. He has ultimate practice in a few minutes so now he's going to say goodbye. Oh, most of the time he doesn't refer to himself in the third person. Hi everybody, I love all of you. I hope you're having fun in each of your respective forays into the world beyond high school. Hasta luego.
Send email to Adi |
| Here is news from Lauren Nussbaum: Hey guys, I'm down in NYC where it's been a little crazy to say the least, but I'm surviving. In case no one knows, I'm at Barnard College, the women's college of Columbia University. I am taking Intro to Psych, Spanish Lit, Elementary Italian, Literature of the Americas, and Self Defense. I am also working as a teaching assistant for a kindergarden class that is dual English and Spanish...yeehah! Life is good, I'm learning crazy new stuff, and y'all should keep in touch. Send email to Lauren |
| Here is news from Drew Gotesman: Yo Hommies? What da funk is going on? This is the Drew checking up on all you chicken-heads!!! Right now I'll up at SUNY New Paltz and I'm getting my "learn" on! College sure is hard. I don't have a good math class and it doesn't even come close to be as cool as the B Period QR (though, it might resemble D period QR accurately). I also got a small part in my schools production of Henry IV. It's not much, just a lil' something-something, but I'm havin' fun with it and maybe next time it will be my name above the title (New Jersey here I come! Big time baby)! What else? I've doing my fair share of partying. Frat houses smell, though, so I don't think I'll join one. I guess I'll just have to keep paying three dollars for a cup! But I'm doing well. Miss you guys and gals and teacher. Hope this message finds you all in good health and in good spirits. Keep those heads up and those eyes wide open: You never know what you'll see if you just look!!! Peace. DREW PS. That Julia set still haunts my dreams. It was madd ugly!!!!!! Send email to Drew |
| David Youngblood just walked into Room 202! He is still in training for professional cycling. He is hoping to go to Belgium or France in 2002, depending where he can find people to mooch off of while he trains. Right now, he works at True Confections, a candy company on Route 9 in Amherst, where they have fractal screen savers on their computers. | Here is news from Willow Alexander: Hello all, in a procrastination fit similar to Jeremy's i found myself back here and i thought what a great idea this was for people to keep in contact. With this in mind i didn't want to go without leaving something for others to find aswell. i am at UMASS, doing a double major in linguistics and my own languages major, don't ask me why, it just helps me travel. this summer i am on my way to amsterdam, australia and korea again, wandering towards something, hopefully something i won't find because searching is half the fun! hope all are well, especially Ms Koch without whom none of this would be possible. cheers, willow alexander. Send email to Willow |
| Here is news from Namrita Singh: Hi everyone! Here I am at Colorado College, finishing my first block of sophomore year, "Women and Madness" here at Colorado College (yes, I had a couple emotional breakdowns because of it!). Now I have four days of no class, which is great. It's so beautiful here at CC, where it's always sunny and the 14ers (the Rockies, the real mountains) beckon...I'm still getting sand out of my hiking boots from the Sand Dunes...I'm going to India in January which is so exciting. Yay B Period QR! I'd love to hear from all of you. Take care. Namrita. Send email to Namrita |
| Another update just came in from Jeremy Blaustein. Classes are still going pretty well but the work has been pretty intense the last few weeks. We had midterms, then a brief lull, now more craziness. At the moment I'm taking Teaching & Learning (one of the intro ed. courses), Anglo-Saxon literature (more like a language class then a lit. one, but the prof knows his stuff and is really good), History of Russia, and Approaches to Literature. The latter is definitely my favorite, it's the only required course for English majors (which I am) and deals with current debate and theories of literature. We started off talking about what we read and why, with issues like formation of the canon. Now we're on to how we read and discussing a number of different critical theories (psychoanalysis, marxist, queer, reader-response, structuralist, etc). I've been having a good time with it, and the professor is one of my favorites. So far I've been enjoying the English major a great deal. In that some QR ideas seem to keep coming up, especially my personal favorite "there is no such thing as an objective reality." We've been talking about interpretive communities and opressive ideologies and it all fits in well. So those are my classes...we register for next semester tomorrow, I'm not sure yet what i'll be taking, it mostly depends what I can get into. The other major news from here is that today I officially declared myself a secondary education minor. I had been going back and forth on whether to do it or not, but had to declare today if I have any hope of getting into a class on Adolescent Development that is required for the major but only offered in the spring. If I want to spend a semester abroad I have to get into the class, so now I have committed myself to doing that. It should be fun though. The ed. class I have now is rather useless, a combination of Psych 101, common sense, general knowledge, and once in a while things that I didn't know..but it's required, so what can you do? Send email to Jeremy |
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Here is the latest (Fall 2003) from Adi Heller hey kids...this is your friendly neighborhood adi heller checking in because (i'm procrastinating and) i think this page, with the opendoor applet, may be the most enjoyable thing on the internet, next to the online abercrombie and fitch catalogue. life is life - changing all the time, filled with lots of things to do, mostly a very positive thing. at macalester college (where a multitude of amherst kids seem to be coming) i'm an english major with a creative writing focus, i've gone through my school's poetry system already. i'm also getting my teaching license for grades 5-12 and planning on doing a lot of my own learning in London next semester, with a lot of european travel (i swear to god, i am not a cliché!)...a "scholarly focus" of mine is shaping up to be black diaspora literature - next year i'll be putting together a comparative study of 2pac Shakur and some popular black artist of the 1930s - but blahblahblahwordswordswords! i'm happy to be writing to you people. if you want to check it, i have a online journal at ww.livejournal.com/users/adiezel and yeah. Q.R. rules, times ten, for serious. alright amherstonians...much love to all. that guy you used to see a lot...adi.Send email to Adi |
| Willow Alexander is now in Australia, taking time off from studies at UMass. While he was at UMass, he also worked at Rao's so I saw him pretty often. Last spring, he was studying Vikings and black holes and lots of cool stuff. His sister Hannah is taking QR this year. |