I cannot believe how much I’ve been able to learn from this course and what encounters I’ve experienced as a result of this trip and our meetings. As someone who technically already graduated before taking this course, this trip acted as both a last hurrah and a means to get some more information about how […]
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Food in NYC: Its Own Adventure
Getting food in New York City is an experience different than it often is anywhere else. In the big apple, you have to be prepared not only for all the options provided to you but also all of the prices. Just starting out, to find good food in New York, you have to do a […]
Exploring the Met
While I did visit a couple of museums while I was in New York, the one that I found most interesting was the Metropolitan Museum of Art, aka the Met. It was particularly fascinating to me due to the wide range of pieces within it. On one hand, the Egyptian exhibit was uncomfortable, especially due […]
A Day in NYC: Wednesday 5/10/23
Though I know I’m not the only one who has written about this day in New York, it was one in which I had a lot of fun and learned a lot about many of the topics we covered in this course. Our first Wednesday in New York was full of activities and walking and […]
NYC: History and Modernity
There’s something so fascinating about all of the ways that the history of NYC shines through the modern city. Plaques all over the city provide insights into historical markers that may easily have been forgotten otherwise. Though improvements have been made to some buildings, there is often care taken to not remove the marks of […]