Sunday, August 21

Eating Animals / The Food Project

Every year, SMC assigns a book as summer reading to all incoming freshman in order to unite all students on at least one common topic and stimulate debate. This year's book is Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, who has also written the critically-acclaimed- book-turn-critically-acclaimed-film Everything is Illuminated. This book mainly deals with Foer's quest to find out where the meat on his plate came from (it's not an easy process to stomach) and how he sees society incorporating ethics into our diet choices. My fellow blogger and "knight", Sarah, has written all about her experience with the reading here. You can also read more about a previous summer reading assignment on the blog of recent SMC graduate Dan Ozimek here.

Every First Year Seminar will complete a project or discussion based on the summer reading. For my First Year Seminar, I'll be joining the honors section in the "Living Digital" class taught by Prof Kimberly Sultze. As part of our summer assignment, we were asked to document our own eating habits through 10-15 photographs (as a response to the reading). Here are some snaps I've taken over the summer...

Sampling Garrett's popcorn in Chicago - it's coated in cheddar cheese

A regular breakfast at the LSE residence in London

One of our London student pig-out nights, complete with Domino's pizza, soda, beer and Ben & Jerry's

Finally at home in Geneva and able to enjoy my father's brilliant cooking!

2 comments:

  1. If you've been tasked with arranging the hen night, then you might already have some ideas planned.Thanks

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