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First-Year Program Common Events
1994-1995 |
Fall Semester
- Welcoming picnic
- Meet the faculty evening
- Thunder Bay Ensemble production, Wild Ancestors
- Outing to Purgatory Chasm
- Production, The Phantom of the Opera, Wang
Center
- Ice cream social
- Apple picking in Boylston, MA
- Production, The Woman Warrior, Huntington Theatre
Company
- The Bulgarian Women's Choir
- Film, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Discussion, "The Many Colors of Racism"
- Tom Martin's lecture on Plato's Apology
- Trip to New York art museums
- Jothi Rhagavan concert
- Discussion led by Alice Laffey, ``The Sporting Woman:
Insights from Her Past''
- Victoria Swigert's presentation on date rape
- FYP reunion ice cream social
- Parents Weekend reception
- Production, The Who's Tommy, Wang Center
- Tai Chi demonstration
- Indian pot luck dinner
- Town meeting with President Reedy
- Production, Pterodactyls, Huntington Theatre
Company
- Balinese Dance/MIT Gamelan Orchestra
- Trip to Faneuil Hall
- FYP retreat weekend
Spring Semester
- Student-led discussion on Brothers and Keepers
- Lecture, John Edgar Wideman (author of common text,
Brothers and Keepers)
- Trip to see film, Hoop Dreams
- Student-led discussion on diversity
- Concert, Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Mechanics Hall)
- Lecture, Tim O'Brien (author of shared text, The
Things They Carried)
- Film, Hamburger Hill
- Film, Schindler's List
- Weekend trip to Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.
- Concert, Amaryllis String Quartet
- Film, Weapons of the Spirit, and discussion
- FYP banquet
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