For Intro to Sociology, we had to do a qualitative study of Northfield, where we where asked to go someplace to observe for a couple of hours, and then describe our observations in the context of social theory. I chose to go to Northfield Hospital, and sit in the waiting room for a couple of hours. It was definitely a new experience, as there are so many minute things about a hospital that you would never know without intentionally looking for. Usually, other things take priority over careful observation whenever I've gone to a hospital.

In my Transnational Feminisms class, we were required to keep journals of our thoughts on the literature we read and write an autobiographical paper. I liked being able to incorporate analysis of different scholars on issues like globalization and militarization, along with having space for self-reflection and connecting how my personal experiences inform my academic ideals.

For a linguistics class I got to do a talk on discourse markers. Those are words like "like" and "um" that don't seem to have any linguistic function in a sentence. It involved analyzing actual utterances by Valley girls that I found on You Tube.

A couple of papers I've written for religion classes really swept me away and I had fun writing. Last spring I wrote about the experience of GLBT Christians in America, and sophomore year I wrote about the three forms of yoga laid down in the Bhagavad Gita.

My first essay for my European Music and Politics Class - I wrote about the relationship between music and nationalism in Switzerland.

Currently I have to write a paper comparing the Soviet Winnie The Pooh to the American version. It's very interesting to see the beliefs of the two cultures being marketed to young children.

This term I did a group project for my Modern Architecture class that consisted of measuring Boliou, the arts building, calculating net assignable square footage, and determining what the space should be used for once the existing departments move to the Arts Union. The project taught us about reading blueprints and drafting our own plans. At the end, we wrote up a proposal, and our professor, Baird Jarman, submitted all of the class’s proposals to the Dean of the College for actual consideration.

One of the most interesting assignments I've worked on was for my Psychopharmacology class, where we had to write out prescriptions for hypothetical patients suffering from various psychological/psychiatric conditions.