First-Year Reflections
The Nass’s Annual Collection of First-Year Reflections
A Prayer in Passing
“‘Would you like a prayer?’”
Man and Machine
An interview with Ian Chang, on connecting the computer to the organic body in performing and composing music
American Fairy
“Somehow I would atomize the egotism and diva and brutishness that mediated Ty’s interface and reveal genuine realized human soul.”
Women in Math
“The issue, then, is that in the minds of female students, math becomes a game for ‘smart people’—and over time, fewer and fewer girls retain the confidence to overcome that perception.”
Uni-versity
“‘I think I terrify a lot of people,’ Akiva tells me, only half-kidding as he balances his unicycle in the middle of the Rocky Classroom…”
Streicker Bridge
“Granny began losing her memory. Last spring, she mailed me a ripped-out page of an English course catalogue for Middlebury College. I couldn’t tell if she had forgotten that I go to Princeton.”
Milk cum laude
“10 o’clock peek-a-boo
12 o’clock Looney Tune”