Senior Essay Topics II

I have been meeting with tutors, trying to figure out what I want to write my essay about and who I could ask to my advisor. I met with a tutor who is really into literature and was all about getting me to write about Tolstoy, then I met with a tutor who was clearly so laid back that he wasn't really into the conversation at all, and today I met with a tutor who is just right. I'm going to write about the St. Mathew Passion, and I will most probably ask Mr. Cornell, whom Ben assists in music class, to advise me.



So now I am procrastinating and listening to the Passion, because Hegel is "mad hard" and because (thanks to good old J.C. Maxwell and Einstein) I've already had a day full of imaginary steam engines and clocks moving at the speed of light. Senior year is the year of choices: you get to choose a subject to write an essay about AND you get to choose a preceptorial to take. I write down my top four choices and get assigned to one. Sadly, there are no music or art precepts being offered this year, and I am WAY over philosophy, so I'm debating between the following appealing options:
-Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
-Works of Love, Kierkegaard
-One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
-Essays, Montaigne




-Heat and Heat Engines, with works by Carnot, Maxwell, and Morton Mott-Smith
-Ecological Readings, with works by Thoreau, James Lovelock, and papers on urban and conservation ecology
-Civil Rights Movement, with works by Douglass, B.T. Washington, du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and two Supreme Court Decisions.
-Collected Works, Jung



In other news, I was very sad to hear that Mandy lost her suitcase, incredibly excited to see Jaime and Mandy's posts about Jesus Camp (Jaime, you and Ben totally make me feel better about Christianity) and am starting voice lessons.