2 INTELLECTUAL ADVENTURES
Trailblazing From architecture to theater, research and filmmaking
In senior projects, each student pursues her deep curiosity about the world in a unique way. Her project often reveals the breadth and depth of what she knows and her appetite for continued discovery. The internships, research and volunteer projects she designs give her an experience of impacting individuals, organizations and institutions. Collectively, the range of senior projects over the years captures the intellectual vibrancy that runs through the School not just during senior year but in every grade throughout the student body. GABRIELA JULIA “For my Senior Spring I’m “I decided to do a lot of things interning at the American for my senior project because Museum of Natural History, I have a lot of different learning how to drive a interests. I took a couple of car, learning to swim, and mini courses in ethics and taking mini courses in Greek, ‘fab lab’—creating things out Anglo-Saxon literature and of math. I’m also teaching philosophy. It’s been super first-grade music with Ms. fun. In my internship I’ve Joaquino, a teacher here. I been working mostly in the did an independent study in ELLEN Hall of Ocean Life. It’s been science. And I’ve been doing “I’ve been working at an interesting, because I’ve been more crafting and baking NYU neurogenetics lab, learning how to teach two because I’m not a very skillful researching lysosomal storage. different age groups of kids person when it comes to the I really wanted to use my and learning how to interact visual arts. I have been trying Senior Spring to work more with large groups of older more of those projects and on the experimental side of kids to keep them engaged.” blogging about it—even the science. I have always loved failed efforts. Those failures science in school, but I wanted still teach me. I still put them NORA more experience in the on my blog. Brearley has “I’m doing this really amazing scientific process. I thought taught me how to roll with internship at The American the lab’s experiments would the punches.” Reader, which is a literary be more conclusive and that magazine. They have about the process would be much six interns. The rest of ANNA quicker. But now I’ve learned them are in college or out “I’m doing four mini courses— how constructive failure can of college, so I am definitely Anglo-Saxon Literature, be. I’ve learned how important the youngest, which is a little Constitutional Law, Russian it is to wade through the intimidating, but I’m really Literature, and Modernism uncertainty that comes with lucky to be there. Because as a Philosophical Problem.” the scientific process.” the program isn’t that well established, it’s meant they let me do more than I might otherwise have gotten to do.” 22
