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<div>[[Category:Academics]]<br />
Add your name/institution! Please alphabetize the names of the universities, the names within a given university, and capitalize the courses of study.<br />
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* American University<br />
** Joyia Yorgey (Chadwick) '05 - International Politics<br />
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* Benjamin N. Cardozo<br />
** Maurice Robinson '06 - Law '09<br />
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* Brown University<br />
** Matthew Spencer '05 - Mathematics<br />
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* Caltech (California Institute of Technology)<br />
** Nathan Hodas '04 - Physics<br />
** Ersen Bilgin '06 - Physics<br />
** Hang (Grace) Song '06 - Chemistry<br />
** Johannes Pulst-Korenberg '06 - Economics<br />
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* CMU (Carnegie Mellon)<br />
** Brian Hirshman '06 - Computer Science<br />
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* Columbia University (see also [[3-2]] for students in the 3-2 Joint Degree BA/BS program)<br />
** Sebastian Sorgenfrei '04 - Electrical Engineering<br />
** Jocelyn Nolasco - Medicine<br />
** Andrew McKinstry - Medicine<br />
** Brian Kelly - Medicine<br />
** Felton Booker - JD/MBA<br />
** Ana Correa '07 - JD '10<br />
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* Cornell University<br />
** Benjamin Angarita '03 - MD '09<br />
** Ohm Deshpande '04 - MD '08<br />
** Scott Kaplan '99 - MD '08<br />
** Jessica Bauman '02 - MD '08<br />
** Michael Chiorazzi '02 - MD, PhD '12<br />
** Randall Lindquist '00 - MD, PhD '08<br />
** Joe Shoer '06 - Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D. '10/'11<br />
** Sarah Iams '04 - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics<br />
** Sean O'Brien '05 - Chemical engineering<br />
** Joe Stember '02 - Chemistry<br />
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*George Mason University<br />
** Lowell Jacobson '03 - Law '07 <br />
** Max Kaganov '05 - Law '09<br />
** Bill McGrath '04 - Law '08<br />
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* GWU (George Washington University)<br />
** Teresa Martinez '06 - Masters in Museum Studies<br />
** Alison B. Peet '03 - Asian Studies<br />
** Drew Newman '04 - Law<br />
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* Harvard University<br />
** Andres Schabelman '06 - Kennedy School of Government, Public Policy<br />
** Payap (Gob) Pakdeelao '06 - Graduate School of Design, Architecture<br />
** Rachelle Hassan '03 - Graduate School of Design, Architecture<br />
** Keith Marzilli-Ericson '04 - Economics<br />
** Sarah Croft '04 - Education and Technology<br />
** Marie-Adele Sorel - Medicine<br />
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* Johns Hopkins University<br />
** Nick Yates '06 - Education courses (while teaching in Baltimore City through [http://www.baltimorecityteachingresidency.org BCTR])<br />
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* McDaniel College, MD<br />
** Reka Daroczi '04 - MS in Human Services Management in special education <br />
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* Middlebury College<br />
** Elizabeth Spragins '07 - M.A. in Spanish literature<br />
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* MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<br />
** Dave Butts '06 - Aerospace Engineering<br />
** Robin Stewart '06 - Computer Science<br />
** Andrea Burke '06 - Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (?)<br />
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*Northeastern<br />
**Beth Ann Barnosky '06 - School Psychology<br />
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* Northwestern<br />
** Eric Cheung '06 - Master's in Education (while teaching through ICTC)<br />
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* Ole Miss<br />
** Lisetta Shah '06 - Master's in Education (while teaching through the Mississippi Teacher Corps)<br />
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* Ohio State University<br />
** Amanda Van Rhyn '06 - Neuroscience<br />
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* New York University<br />
** Nadia Moore '06 - Law<br />
** Joe Hutchinson '06 - Law<br />
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*Pennsylvania State University<br />
**Lindsey Corbin '06 - Speech Pathology<br />
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* Princeton University<br />
** Justin Brown '05 - Physics<br />
** Matthew Kugler '05 - Social Psychology<br />
** Andrew Lee '06 - Interpretive Dance<br />
** Rob Cooper '06 - Molecular Biology<br />
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* Purdue University<br />
** Joseph Gangestad '06 - Aerospace Engineering<br />
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* Stanford University<br />
** Alex Zaliznyak '07 - Economics<br />
** Ruoweng Liu '06 - Law<br />
** Vojislav Šešum '06 - Graduate School of Business, Finance<br />
** Ya Xu '06 - Statistics<br />
** Ali Orme '04 - Law<br />
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* Suffolk University<br />
** Brad Brecher '06 - Law<br />
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* Temple University<br />
** [[Dave Letzler '06]] - Creative Writing<br />
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* Tufts University<br />
** Erika Latham '06 - School of Veterinary Medicine<br />
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* University of California, Berkeley<br />
** Shea Chen '07 - Industrial Engineering & Operations Research<br />
** Melissa Bota '07 - PhD in Hispanic Studies<br />
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* University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)<br />
** Justin Lavner '06 - Clinical Psychology<br />
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* University of California, San Francisco<br />
** Maggie Carr '06 - Neuroscience<br />
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* University of Hawai'i at Manoa<br />
** Drew Raab '06 - Clinical Psychology<br />
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* University of Illinois at Chicago<br />
** Tamara Springle '06 - Community Psychology<br />
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* University of Michigan<br />
** Aaron Magid '04 - Mathematics<br />
** Michelle Lee '06 - Mathematics<br />
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* University of Minnesota<br />
** Christina Brakken-Thal '06 - MD/PhD (PhD probably in Neuroscience)<br />
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*University of Pennsylvania<br />
** Christopher Sewell '05 - Secondary Education (while doing Teach for America)<br />
** Steven Myers '06 - Law '09<br />
** Nick Bamat '04 - MD '08<br />
** Anthony Gulati '04 - MD '08<br />
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* University of Rochester <br />
** Keith Olsen '04 - MD '09<br />
** Joanna Touger '04 - MD '10<br />
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* University of Washington at Seattle<br />
** [[Laura Effinger-Dean '06]] - Computer Science<br />
** Robert Hahn '05 - Atmospheric Science<br />
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* University of Wisconsin at Madison<br />
** [[Rachel S. Selinsky '06|Rachel Selinsky '06]] - Chemistry<br />
** Mary Beth Anzovino '06 - Chemistry<br />
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* Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U)<br />
** M. Esa Seegulam '06 - Molecular Cell Biology<br />
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* Yale University<br />
** Daniel Morales - JD '05<br />
** Andrew Woolf - JD '05<br />
** Adam Grogg - JD '10</div>07els 2https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Unix_ID_underscore&diff=14773Unix ID underscore2007-04-17T14:56:00Z<p>07els 2: /* _2 */</p>
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== _2 ==<br />
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* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mab_2 07mab_2] Megan Bruck<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mg_2 07mg_2] Mike Gnozzio<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07els_2 07els_2] Elizabeth Spragins<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07sej_2 07sej_2] Sarah Jenks<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mam_2 07mam_2] Alex Matthews<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_2 09am_2] Andrew Miao<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ack_2 09ack_2] Alex Kramer<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10hs_2 10hs_2] Harsh Sodhi<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09kaw_2 09kaw_2] Kyle Whitson<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10mm_2 10mm_2] Mohamed Musthag<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07amh_2 07amh_2] Allyson Holmes<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv_2 09cjv_2] Carl Vos<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09jcl_2 09jcl_2] Joshua Lynch-Ramirez<br />
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== _3 ==<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mch_3 08mch_3] Moneyshots Hagerty<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_3 09am_3] Andres Montoya<br />
* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mam_3 07mam_3] Manuel Moutinho<br />
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== _4 ==<br />
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* [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 09am_4] Aroop Mukharji<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
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* [[Jonathan Landsman]] '05 spared Joanna L. Lloyd '05 from an _2 fate by never telling Williams his full legal name. He got 05jl, she 05jll, and the two were able to become friends -- if always with some mutual wariness.</div>07els 2https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Easy_classes&diff=7262Easy classes2006-02-11T19:44:36Z<p>07els 2: /* Econ 110 */</p>
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<div>I know, know, we all came to Williams to take four to six challenging and rewarding classes every semester. Then we found how much we liked working for the [[newspaper]] or playing a sport or singing [[a capella]] or doing [[plays]]. Anyway, sometimes you need an easy fourth course. Let's make a list of guts. '''Please comment only on the size of the workload, and not on the quality of teaching.''' If there's not universal consensus that a course was easy, it would be relevant to mention whether you've had previous coursework in the subject, or if you're just a genius. If you want opinions about the quality of particular professors, please visit [http://wso.williams.edu/Factrak Factrak]. Not to be confused with [[Hard Classes]].<br />
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==Easy classes (if you can do math)==<br />
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===Econ 110===<br />
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For some sections: there are daily homework assignments, but you can actually complete them ''during the class that it's due''. You'll probably have time to finish the next day's assignment, too. There were no projects or papers; just a mid-term and final exam.<br />
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Estimated weekly workload: 0-2 hours<br />
Mandatory attendance? No<br />
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Not easy with Ralph Bradburd.<br />
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===Psych 201===<br />
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'''Kirby's section''': If you are not good at math, this class will be hard. But if you have a sound grasp of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and occasionally division, and if you have a sort of understanding of how math works, this class is easy. You don't need to do any reading to do the course, which is good since the texts and reading assignments are really dense. Classes are small, so the professor will notice if you are not there.<br />
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Estimated weekly workload: 0-2 hours<br />
Mandatory attendence? yes, since it's a small class<br />
Extra credit? No<br />
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Not easy with Ari Solomon.<br />
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===Math 106===<br />
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Taught by Garrity, this is an easy and entertaining class if you're already a math whiz who plans to do a PhD in math. Homework is optional, but TAs will grade it if you do it. There are weekly quizzes, but these involve only a couple of moderately difficult problems from the previous week's material. There are three exams, and about 10% of the class received a 100 on each of the first two exams. A significant portion of the class received under 70%, and a handful scored under 50%.<br />
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The third and final exam involves long and demanding proofs of complicated theorems, and is notoriously difficult. Beware if you are not confident with doing mathematical proofs. Many students who were good at math in high school found that the quizzes and exams were very difficult to score well on. If you've taken Calc AP BC, which presumably everyone in the class has done, there's very little material that is really new. One person got an A on about half an hour of work per week. Most people needed to put in at least two to three hours of solid work per week, and still found difficulties in the later part of the course, which introduces complicated theorems.<br />
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Math 106 requires a lot of hard work and should not really be on this page. If you're really good at calculus than I suppose it would be easy, but many people who considered themselves quite adept at calculus still found the exams very difficult and the homework very time-consuming -- far more than the half hour required for the exceptional student above.<br />
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However, even those who had a hard time with the class found Garrity's entertaining lectures to be worthwhile.<br />
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===Astronomy 101===<br />
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Easy (for me, at least, though I've heard that some others have disputed this) if you do the reading and show up for tests and labs. Missing an exam, has, in the past, resulted in almost automatic failure, though, even if you have good excuses and can make the exam up immediately, so be careful about that.<br />
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===Econ 120===<br />
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Sporadic problem sets that can be done at the last minute. Attendance is not necessary as the entire lecture (at least in one prof's section) is contained within a powerpoint presentation available through blackboard - print this out, don't take any notes. Readings from the course packet are assigned but not necessary. Exams are easy, especially if you've taken 110 before.<br />
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Estimated weekly workload: 0-2 hours<br />
Mandatory attendance? No<br />
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Note: This is just my personal experience, but econ 120 with Betty Daniel involves weekly problem sets, 2 papers, a presentation and debate on one of the papers, and two really hard tests and a final exam. Just to give you a good idea of how hard the tests are, the first one had a curve of over 20 points.<br />
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===Math 175: Mathematical Politics: Voting, Power, and Conflict===<br />
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Very light on actual math.<br />
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==Easy classes (even if you can't do math)==<br />
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===Ling 101===<br />
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Not only is Introduction to Linguistics easy, but it's probably one of the most fun and interesting classes you could ever take at Williams. It's taught by a knowledgeable professor who's willing to explain any and all details of a subject, and also willing to get into discussions of related (or even not very related) material. Most of the class is spent learning the International Phonetic Alphabet...go to lecture, sit back, relax, and listen to the funny noises as all the members of the class try to mimic Professor Sanders' pronunciations. This class is also great for picking up fun facts: where else can you learn to properly use phrases like "bilabial fricative," "spread glottis," or "plosive?" Ling 101 is a problem set class and requires a good memory, but if you have basic quantitative reasoning abilities, it's easy to handle.<br />
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Note: I never attended this class, but learned I.P.A. elsewhere, and it is not at all difficult to learn within the course of a few classes, tops, if you have a reasonably good ear for sounds. It is, also, a useful class for anyone who plans to go into singing, since terms like "plosive" come up fairly often there too.<br />
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Estimated weekly workload: 0-3 hours<br />
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===Psych 101===<br />
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It is not really that the material is easy, but this class is the only class I am aware of at Williams that has extra credit, in the form of participating in psych experiments that oftentimes are extremely interesting anyway. I got an A in the class and very rarely went to class on Friday mornings. The only section that you need to pay close attention in the lecture is Neuroscience, which many people have considered to be the most interesting set of lectures, anyway, and thus easy to pay attention to. Even if you don't do well on that test, you will surely ace the Cognitive Psych or Social Psych part and make up for it. This class is light on the reading, and since there so many people in it, you can find a study partner easily. <br />
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I would also add that there is very little in the lectures that cannot be found directly from the book. In fact, despite the fact that I attended almost every lecture, the notes I took down were basically just repeating what I'd read the night before.<br />
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Whatever you do, '''do not buy the textbook.''' It was revised three times while I was a student, and every time Kassin would claim "students must have the recent edition." Bullshit. If you don't believe, grab copies of your favorite two editions and check the text side by side. I'll be damned if I didn't find, my freshman year, that precisely the same text and figures were present in the 3rd and 4th editions, with a two page difference between editions. If you are lucky enough to take the class in a revision year, check out the free book table in the [[1914 Library]], even if you are not on [[financial aid]]. They'll be liquidating their "old" editions.<br />
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Estimated weekly workload: 0-3 hours<br />
Mandatory attendence? no<br />
Extra credit? Yes!<br />
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Note: A great number of people have failed this course. Do not be misled by this information. It is necessary ''either'' to attend class or to do the readings. You can get away with skipping one or the other, but if you skip both, you will suffer.<br />
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Also note: Ok, although I know someone who has failed this course, I feel strongly that this is a result of a complete lack of understanding about what an easy or "low-maintainence" class is and what it isn't. i.e. you still have to study for the exams, and the material is still on par with college-level academics.<br />
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(Seconded. This class is easy to fail if you decide not to do the reading or if you regularly skip class, but easy to pass if you simply do the reading and pay a reasonable amount of attention during lectures. Most lectures are also fairly interesting, and most reading material easily comprehensible, so this should not be at all difficult for anyone smart and motivated enough to be at Williams in the first place.)<br />
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Estimated weekly workload: 1-3 hours (problem sets)<br />
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===Geos 104: Oceanography===<br />
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Well-illustrated powerpoint lectures, an often fun and incredibly easy lab for two hours ever other week, pretty much no homework (though looking at your textbook doesn't actually hurt), and a field trip in the spring! This was one of the easiest and most entertaining classes I've taken here. <br />
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Estimated weekly workload: 0-3 hours <br />
Mandatory attendance? I don't remember, but it's actually worth going<br />
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===Philosophy 102===<br />
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This is a difficult course if you are not adept at writing coherent and well-organized papers, and if you are not confident with speaking up in class and engaging the reading.<br />
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Has, in the past, been fairly easy provided you find philosophical discussion interesting. There are typically two sections, of which I only have experience with Professor White's version. Involves significant and frequent reading, but only page-long response papers twice a week, only one of wich was graded, while the other was reviewed by a TA. Class participation is important; do not <br />
take this curse if you are shy about offering opinions. (It should be noted that it has been several years since I took this course, so it may have changed by now.)<br />
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Professor Cruz also teaches a section, where the only work is four six-page papers spread evenly throughout the semester, with the last one due during exams. These papers, however, are basically the only basis for your grade, but he doesn't grade so stringently that it's easy to fail. Participation in discussions is also important.<br />
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....'''''vastly''''' depends on the prof which you have. Cruz, Gerrard, White, Dudley, Mladenvoic and probably others, have all taught this course. Each prof injects their own special flavor into 102. This class is "easy" in being light on the workload, ''depending on the professor'', but sometimes piecing together a coherent philosophical argument can be quite a bear, if it's not your thing. One might go so far as to say that this is an easy class for philosophy majors, but if you're a Div1 or Div3 major looking for an easy and mindless Div2 to fill your distribution requirement, this is not your best bet.<br />
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===English 115===<br />
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Taught by Prof. Murphy, the king of witty and dry sarcasm, this class is the simplest writing intensive course ever brought to Williams. "Writing intensive" really means, one page (double spaced!) response to the weekly reading. By "response" I mean, how did you feel? Did you like it? The biggest paper is a 3-5pager. Only thing is you can't miss more than 2 classes. But you can easily get by without reading a thing.<br />
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On the other hand, though English 115 isn't a "difficult" class it shouldn't be scoffed at. There's over 20 pages of graded writing (besides the responses) and Murphy isn't such an easy grader.</div>07els 2https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Co-op_Pick_2006&diff=7193Co-op Pick 20062006-02-09T15:17:45Z<p>07els 2: </p>
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<div>This wiki helps students plan their co-op picks. It does this by allowing students with lower lottery numbers to publicize their group size and house preferences. This, is turn, allows students with higher lottery numbers to plan accordingly. Groups might also be inspired, given what they can learn from this wiki, to coordinate or negotiate living arrangements within specific houses. In order to help make this wiki successful, students participating in the co-op draw should edit it. Please insert your group's size, names, and preferences.<br />
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The names are helpful, not just because they make coordination possible, but because accountability is part of the way of the Eph. However, there's a way to identify even those who don't provide their name: the Page History tab reveals the names of everyone who edits this page. <br />
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In order to increase the likelihood that housemates from different groups will get along, you're encouraged to describe the social environment that your group envisions. However, when doing so, you're discouraged from employing sly intimidation tactics under the guise of straightforwardness in an attempt to scare others away from your favorite house. Such tactics are decidedly not the way of the Eph. (Speaking of which, could group #3 identify themselves?)<br />
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Some advice from a current co-op inhabitant: <br />
Relax. It will all work out. No matter where you and your friends live, you will have an amazing senior year. Oh, and if you are shopping around to decide which co-op you want, please make your visits only at a reasonable hour.<br />
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(Credits: Thomas Kindred suggested that WSO host this discussion, and Alan Cordova suggested that The Wiki be the forum to do so.)<br />
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'''"...there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."''' ''Matthew 8:12b''<br />
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# 6 Milham. Laura Lee, Emily Button, Devin Yagel, Mike Tyson, Jen Menzies, Allegra Funsten, Angela Doyle, Chris Merwin. <br />
# 7 Doughty <-- Chung, Parsons, Koppe, Moscoe, Platt, Martin, Montgomery (+ Merwin & Madonna if they are both so inclined.)<br />
# 4 Milham - This is to groups 1 and 2: you are expressing a lot of aversion to having parties, and to meat, etc. Have you considered living together? It seems that you have very similar desires. Chadbourne and Woodbridge, for example, hold 15 people and are supposed to be extremely nice.<br />
# 7 Lambert Elizabeth Pierce, Fred, Natalie Vokes, Alison Penning, Katie Baldiga, Courtney Gainer, Chris Merwin, Kate Geoghegan, Colleen Gerritty<br />
# 6 We are sorry if our over-enthusiasm offended any group tonight. With such a high pick we got a little ahead of ourselves and thought that we would have the house of our dreams. We will see you all tomorrow and hope that we can discuss all of this in person. Goodnight. (Ali Beswick, Kate Whipple, Cathleen Clark, Meghan Guinee, Steve, Chris Merwin, Pilar, and Rebecca)<br />
# 8: still shopping... melissa bota, erika haydu, kate larabee, jerry seinfeld, maggie lowenstein, karen olson, chris merwin, christina perron, haley tone, ellen wilk<br />
# 6 Susie H, the Rectory, and/or Poker. Thomas Kindred, Shaquille O'Neal, Owen Simpson, Conor Quinn, Ross Kravitz, Ryan Gerrity, Giorgio Mosoni, Chris Merwin.<br />
# 3 (Rumor has it these people are going off-campus)<br />
# 6 Alex Hogan, Caroline Doctor, Danielle Grunwald, Bruce Willis, Brian Van Wyck, Matt Davis, Chris Merwin, and Eileen Douglas--(hey pick 6, where you guys going?)<br />
# 7 ugly<->stick Auer, Dougbert, Benjamin Echols, Chris Merwin, Norman Nicholson, Snacktime, Zachary Grossman, Perry Fridley<br />
# 4 Liz Spragins, Julie Cooper, Meghan MacNaughty, Chris Merwin, Helen Selonick, Rachel Jordan.<br />
# 5 Caitlin Sullivan, Chris Merwin, Ashley McDonnell, Bob Saget, Elizabeth Dill, Ann Levin, Lexi Augustine<br />
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# 9 MILHAM! MILHAM! Martha Rogers, Laura McCarthy, Brianna Banks, Cailin Collins, Sarah Chuzi, Krista Nylen, Chris Merwin, Sara Echenique, Ariel Ramchandani, Ashley Sewell, Abby Southard<br />
# 8 Auyon Mukharji, Dave Mukharji, Dan Mukharji, Chris Merwin, Sura Mukharji, Dave Mukharji, Paul Mukharji, Chris Mukharji, Merritt. We're going for Sawyer unless anything else is available (co op)<br />
# 7 OFF-CAMPUS<br />
# 8 Anywhere. with Poker Flats as the last option. Ananda Burra, Dan Aiello, Devin Schweppe, Carolyn Skudder, Jeff Castiglione, Edwin Johnson, Abelee Esparaza, Alix Murphy.<br />
# 4 Charles Howard, Scot Murray, Brendan Fulmer, Will Curtiss, Chris Merwin.<br />
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# 2 Seulghee Lee + Rob Bland + Chris Merwin (go Rob and Chris!)<br />
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# Don't discount us just because we're last. We're the dark horse candidates. We're expecting to clench a come-from-behind victory in the midnight hour.</div>07els 2https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=6040Students with language skills2005-12-03T21:01:33Z<p>07els 2: /* English */</p>
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<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
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===American Sign Language===<br />
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===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
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===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned a bit while abroad in Barcelona and completed a phonetic study of it as his final project for LING 111.<br />
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===Chinese===<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
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[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung '07] (Wishes she had Cantonese soap operas to watch.)<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao 08's] second language. <br />
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[[Jason Ren '08]], but only after disgusting losses in Beirut.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
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Kim Fassler '06<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06kjb Kristyn Bretz '06], but only when drunk<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
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[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ryz Richard Zhang] I'm counting on it to get me a job<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Lingwei Gu '07<br />
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Richard Zhang '07 You wish you could speak this exclusive dialect<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Amy Chin '08, but not really.<br />
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Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
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===Danish===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
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===Dutch===<br />
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[[Jason Leith]] lived in the Netherlands for a few months, and can tell you what "neuken in de keuken" and "let op zakkenrollers!" means. He had little opportunity to actually speak the language, though, which was probably actually a good thing, as he values the integrity of his velum.<br />
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===English===<br />
'''British Accent'''<br />
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'''Canadian Accent'''<br />
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'''Chinese Accent'''<br />
:[[Jing Cao]] speak Proper Chinese Flavor English<br />
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'''East European Accent'''<br />
:[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
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'''Indian Accent'''<br />
:[[Nirmal Deshpande '07]] speaks with a British-tinged Indian accent when drunk, specifically responding "You can make me drink, but you cannot make me get you a beer!" to demands that he wait hand and foot upon someone. <br />
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'''Japanese Accent'''<br />
:[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
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'''Scottish Accent'''<br />
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'''Southern Accent'''<br />
:Evelyn Robinson '05 has an occassional native Southern accent so sudden and endearing you'd swear she is joking, but she aint.<br />
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'''Wisconsin Accent'''<br />
:[[Katie Montgomery '07]] has heard and can imititate an accent so strong that you will not believe that it actually exists.<br />
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:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] can't speak it that well, but she can make fun of it like no one else.<br />
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===Esperanto===<br />
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[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
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===French===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
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Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
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[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
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[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
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[[Tosin Adeyanju '08]] third language I can kinda speak.<br />
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[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] spent last year in Paris. He can say a lot more than 'voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir', althought that phrase comes in handy quite often.<br />
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===German===<br />
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[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
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[[Kimi Gilbert '06]] spent more than a year in Berlin. Hence, she is legitimately badass. Her German skills are unbelievable. And she starred in a Deutsch Scheiße Video. Go figure.<br />
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[[Kat Jong '07]] Is currently spending the Year in Munich and can thus speak enough to get by, read books she'd already read in English, and play an entire game of [[Magic The Gathering]]. <br />
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[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] used to kick ass in German. Unfortunately, he's a sell out and has moved on to romance languages.<br />
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*Swiss German<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
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[[Joe Gangestad '06]] speaks a mad Munchen Deutsch, and will one day teach astrophysics to unassuming little German children.<br />
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===Greek===<br />
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====Ancient====<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04<br />
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Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
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So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
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====Modern====<br />
[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
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[[Jim Prevas]] knows all the bad words.<br />
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===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
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Zachary Ulman '06<br />
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[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
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Davida Kutscher '03<br />
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Elissa Brown '09<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
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[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
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===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet.<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
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[[Jason Leith]] rejects the notion that a velar trill is impossible. It is, however, so ugly a sound that not even languages like Dutch and Danish have adopted it. He uses IPA when indicating pronunciation in his music.<br />
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===Italian===<br />
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[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
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[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
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[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] is in 101 and discovered she can speak Italian by throwing in vowels here and there while speaking French.<br />
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===Japanese===<br />
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[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
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[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
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===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
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===Latin===<br />
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[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So do [[Joe McDonough '06]] and [[Richard Rodriguez]].<br />
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A rather cool internet program created by Lee Butterman of Brown University is a text to speech program that will read any latin poetry or verse aloud and give you a decent pronunciation of it. Find it [http://www.poetaexmachina.net/ Here]<br />
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===Middle Earth (assorted languages)===<br />
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[[Laurie Brink]] sort-of-'05 was the "official unofficial" translator and pronunciation expert for the NYC area premiere of the Lord of the Rings Symphony, and, as such, can say a variety of things in Quenya, Sindarin, Ad&ucirc;naic, Rohirric, Khuzdul, and the Black Speech. It also helps that she has, in a certain sense, been speaking Quenya since the day she learned her own name.<br />
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===Oppish===<br />
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[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] propetty swopeet, Opalden.<br />
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===Pig Latin===<br />
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[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] isay uentflay.<br />
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===Polish===<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
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===Portuguese===<br />
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*Brazil<br />
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O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
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===Rumanian===<br />
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[[Laurie Brink]] sort-of-'05 knows just enough to sing the entirety of "Dragostea din Tei" (a.k.a. the Numa Numa song).<br />
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===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
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[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
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[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] (a.k.a. Zlaya Antonovna)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08evb Eugene Berson '08] puts the hammer together with sickel.<br />
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===Spanish===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09mm_2 Monsie Muñoz '09] speaks Mexican Spanish- is slowly adopting a chilanga accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09adr Alejandro RodrÃguez-Prieto '09] also speaks Mexican Spanish- but can speak an even more special subversion- the Chihuahuan accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08lmg Luz M. Gómez '08] speaks paisa Mexican Spanish, can speak "proper spanish" when needed and can do a messed up chilanga accent----oh, and a beatiful Xicana accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ps Pablita Santos '07] speaks Mexican Spanish and has a beatiful Chicana accent when slightly intoxicated<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David RodrÃguez] speaks Dominican Spanish to his fellow Dominicans and a more comprehensible Latin American Spanish to others, but often swears like a Spaniard for no good reason. <br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
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[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
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When traveling in non-Hispanophone countries, [[Alexander Lavy|Alex Lavy's]] brother pretends he is from Spain, where he "fights the bools" and "stoodies the art".<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st SofÃa Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette RodrÃguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
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Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
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Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jkb Julia Brown] speaks Ecuadorian Spanish with an American accent.<br />
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===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
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===Turkish===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
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===Urdu===<br />
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Aatif Abbas<br />
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S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
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Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
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Ali Moiz<br />
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Samreen Kazmi<br />
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Murtaza Hussain<br />
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===Yoruba===<br />
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Tosin Adeyanju</div>07els 2