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Spotlight on Seniors: English Major Katie Clelland Writes Her Way to Community
This fall, Katie will take her love of writing and community engagement and head to Chicago for graduate school to study integrated marketing and communications at Northwestern University鈥檚 Medill School of Journalism.
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Then and Now: The Class of 2021
At the start of the 2016鈥�17 academic year, we聽interviewed a few first-year students about why they chose Scripps and what their plans were for their college careers. Now, four years later, we鈥檝e caught up with some of those seniors to see how their plans shaped up, how they鈥檝e grown, and where they鈥檙e off to after graduation.
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Senior Spotlights: Selina Ho and Claire Joseph Dance for Justice, Beauty, and Expression
For Joseph, graduation from Scripps will lead her to a master鈥檚 program in Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland. Ho will begin her post-grad job as a data analyst at the Vera Institute of Justice in April, a nonprofit devoted to criminal justice reform.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Olivia Truesdale 鈥�21鈥檚 Quest to Connect Language and Culture
Stepping off the plane at Incheon International Airport in the summer of 2019, foreign languages major Olivia Truesdale had a sense of unreality. Surrounded by the sights and splendor of Seoul, she was at the precipice of her longest and most intense trip abroad: An internship at the US Embassy followed by a semester abroad at Yonsei University.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Rui-Jie Yew 鈥�21 Explores the Human Side of Computer Science
Although Yew is majoring in computer science and mathematics through Harvey Mudd College, she credits her Scripps courses, particularly the Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities, with introducing her to the types of projects and questions that solidified her academic interests.
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Senior Artists Explore Being Apart, Staying Together in Virtual Exhibition
The annual senior art exhibition is the capstone of Scripps鈥� studio art major. Seniors conceptualize an exhibition, install their pieces, draft artist statements and wall texts, and publicize the event as part of their senior theses. Usually on display at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, this tradition has necessarily been disrupted; but that鈥檚 not stopping these artists from showing their work.
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Then and Now: Members of Scripps鈥� Class of 2020 Reflect on Their Four Years at Scripps
In 2016, we interviewed some of Scripps’ incoming Class of 2020 about their aspirations as they embarked on their Scripps journeys. Now, as these graduating seniors take their courageous next step in the midst of global uncertainty, they reflect on how they鈥檝e grown and adapted since first arriving on campus.
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The Laws of Motion: Senior Catherine Allen Combines Sports, Critical Race Studies, and the Law
This past January, Catherine Allen ’20 attended the 2020 NCAA Immersion Program, which brought 40 minority Division III (D-III) student athletes from across the country to the NCAA Conference. The program aimed to expose students to the business aspect of the organization, provide education on the process of working in athletic administration, and define and embrace the qualities of young future leaders.
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Spotlight on Academics: Senior Art Exhibition: Rooms of Our Own
The Senior Art Exhibition is a cornerstone of the studio art major at 桃子视频. Each year, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery features artworks by graduating seniors that constitute their thesis projects. In addition to making the works on view, the seniors conceptualize the exhibition, install their pieces, draft artist statements and wall texts, and publicize the event.
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Class of 2018: Graffiti Wall
Since 1931, Scripps’ graduating seniors have participated in what has become an essential rite of passage at the College: the signing of Graffiti Wall. Each year, seniors choose a mural design from student-submitted illustrations to paint on the wall, and then the entire graduating class adds its signatures. Graffiti Wall is a visual reminder of Scripps’ history and reflects the changing tastes and attitudes of students over the decades.
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