Descartes, Professor Dunham, & Philosophy Class

Ouch, these scans are hard to read! 

I'm sharing this, not because I think I had any huge insights into Descartes here (it was a pretty simple regurgitation of what I'd learned in class), but as further evidence of why Joe Dunham was one of my favorite teachers. For a quicker pay-off, you can skip the first half.

Art for a Day

I don't even remember taking this field trip, but apparently we went into Chicago to see the Art Museum during art appreciation class, and our assignment was to have an aesthetic experience and write about it. I only got an A-, possibly because of my unanswered questions about aestheticism. Still, I'm awful glad to still have this, as I don't have memories this clear of any other visit to the museum!

 

Renaissance Men Reborn, or, A Better Picture of the Giants

I remember being so excited about this idea. Tired of writing nonfiction essays for college, I decided in art appreciation class that I would write a fiction piece, imagining a confrontation between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, that would be well-researched enough to count as an essay. It didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped and my teacher's critique still stings in my ears -- "That's all they would have said to each other?" In the end, though, he decided he couldn't resist the idea of the piece and I think he gave it an A-.

Past page 2 I had to revert to my handwritten rough draft because those darn dot-matrix print jobs fade so badly!