Students Association. I still live candidly; I still find ways to insert my CITYterm experience into conversations; I still use photography as an avenue to deeply understand our collective human experience. I’m wishing Fall ‘12 all the best. Spring 2013: Class Agents are Abigail McLean and Sara Eismont Jared Burk writes: This summer I have been interning for Cardinal Health in Waukegan, Illinois (about an hour and a half train ride north of Chicago). I love the work I’m doing, and getting to explore Chicago has been awesome. Otherwise, I’ve been doing some preparation to start my junior year at Indiana University and to apply to study abroad in Sevilla, Spain this spring.
Annie Brennen writes: I’m a current junior at Northwestern University double majoring in Theatre and Psychology and completing a minor in Anthropology as well. This year I’m going to be junior director of a children’s repertory performance group called Griffin’s Tale. We take stories written by Chicagoland elementary school children and adapt them into songs, dances and sketches which we then perform back at their schools. Former NU graduates took the concept and founded Story Pirates in NYC (which would be a great place to take CITYtermers)! Eli Chanoff has started a new twitter account called “Wise Sayings” in which he comes up with things that sound like sayings but aren’t. Examples: “When in doubt, look to the ocean; it contains more water than you ever will,” and, “Learn like you won’t be graded; poop like it doesn’t make a sound.” Cat Silverstein checking in! I’m still living in Vail, Colorado (feel free to come visit!!) and going to school full time while working at a really lovely French restaurant part time and a pizza place part time. I’ve switched my major to graphic design (who knows how long this will last) and I am currently applying to an internship with a ski company here in Vail! In the spring, I’m hoping to chase winter down to Australia, so if you have any tips, let me know! Spring 2012: Class Agent is Hyacinth Parker Zeke Reffe-Hogan writes: I graduated from Deep Springs College in the fall, a small two year school formed on the three pillars of labor, academics, and self-governance.
This was - for lack of space to give the words - the most important experience of my life. I do not recognize the person I was two years ago. I feel delightfully unmoored, on fire, and so confused as I move against/ into the future. I’ve spent July making a video/poem with a dear friend, past teacher, and American poet Katie Peterson about Emily Dickinson going Boston to get eye surgery. I spent August learning Spanish in Colombia. I’m finishing my undergraduate education at Brown University starting this fall. At this very moment, actually, I’m leaving New York - headed to New Jersey to see a close friend who I met at CITYterm. Fall 2012: Class Agent is Claudia Mihm Marney Kline writes: My year has been a mixed bag. I did an internship at Hearst this summer working in online journalism for magazines like Cosmo and Esquire. Living alone in New York for 2 months was unfortunately extremely lonely, but there are still aspects of the urban jungle that I find beautiful. I return to Middlebury this fall as a junior American Studies major (same as David Dunbar)! At Middlebury, I run the yoga club, write for the campus blog, and have a beautiful boyfriend named Sebastian who likes to act and sing. Seriously, he is gorgeous. Yemi Olorunwunmi writes: I am about to start my second year at Columbia and am excited to pursue opportunities that focus on the intersections between technology and the humanities, human rights and the sciences. I will be a resident advisor this year as well as Legacy chair of the African
Ruby Miller-Gootnick writes: I just finished my first year at Oberlin College, which was a fantastic experience. However, as much as I enjoyed Oberlin, in the fall I’m transferring to Brown University, and spending my first semester abroad at the University of Edinburgh. At Oberlin I had declared a Sociology major, but at Brown I’m thinking of concentrating in Education Studies, possibly keeping Sociology as well. This summer I spent working as a barista at Rare Sweets Bakery in DC, and took a bunch of little trips visiting friends (most notably visiting my CITYterm friends)! Fall 2013: Class Agent is Margaret Edwards Cal Neikirk writes: I’m eagerly awaiting the start of my freshman year at Pomona College, and I can’t wait to spend as much time as I can wandering and wondering through downtown Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica! Spring 2014: Class Agents are Elisabeth Zak and Gabby Rothschild Allie Williamson spent her summer going on road trips throughout Texas and continuing her internship with Central Track, as a concert photographer and writer. She has trips planned to see CITYtermers in DC and Philadelphia before packing up to head off to University of St Andrews at the start of September. Lauren Cunfer spent this year using her CITYterm skills to explore a new city – Philadelphia - with help from Graham Cuddy. After spending her summer as a camp counselor in Vermont, she is finally heading back to the one true love of her life - New York City - to start as a freshman at NYU. Calla Rosenfeld writes: I graduated from high school in June and spent my summer living and working in Brooklyn on a rooftop farm. I have learned a lot about urban agriCITYTERM BRIDGES 2014 • 27