When senior Nick Marquiss sat down at his first Encounters class, he found himself sitting across the table from the same professor who taught his father decades before.
Tokyo, 3/20/12 (pictures pending)
The Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is famous for guess what? Fish! And therefore, sushi (it's Japan, after all). So for breakfast I feasted on fresh, raw fish atop rice...
In the Bible, God acts as a benevolent figure, but not really, 'cause I really don't wanna write this encounters paper. In the name of all that is holy, how the f*$% am I gonna put this piece of crap together?...
A few professors at Whitman have integrated blogging into their curriculum recently as a peer-editing tool or a replacement for journaling. Professors Kristy King and Lynn Sharp introduced blogging to Encounters this year, asking their students to post every few weeks regarding the reading material and comment twice per week with additional ideas or critical feedback. A main reason that these professors have made the move to blogging is to encourage first-year students to share their work with a wider audience.
Whitman deserves praise for its choice of Zeitoun as the summer reading assignment and even greater praise for bringing author Dave Eggers and the Zeitouns to campus. However, the College has failed to make full use of Zeitoun.
