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**Jackson Kernion - "The Difference Between Solitude and Loneliness"**

(advised by Van Tran)

[text](/file_url/865)



 

 



 



**Shankar Ramaswamy - "Why I Love Tennis"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/866)



 

 



 



**Alexandra Torres - "Bogie and Friends"**

(advised by Lizzy Rosin)

[text](/file_url/867)



 

 



 



**Elizabeth Durgin - "Never Be Homeless"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/868)



 

 



 



**Alix Olian - "Say It, Sign It, Repeat It"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/869)



 

 



 



**Molly Griffin - "Hard Work"**

(advised by Dorothy Austin)

[text](/file_url/870)



 

 



 



**Katharine Chute - "A Sense of Place"**

(advised by Ryan Spoering)

[text](/file_url/871)



 

 



 



**Kelly O'Grady - "Finding China Through Film"**

(advised by Michael Puett)

[text](/file_url/872)



 

 



 



**Gabe Neustadt - "The Gorilla Theatre"**

(advised by Kevin McGrath)

[text](/file_url/898)



 

 



 



**Andy Leifer - "A Beautiful Experiment"**

(Resident Tutor)

[text](/file_url/899)



 

 



 



**Keru Cai - "Life's Delirium"**

(advised by R.J. Jenkins)

[text](/file_url/900)



 

 



 



**Renee Shah - "Sensitivity Training"**

(advised by Sandy Ullman)

[text](/file_url/902)



 

 



 



**Jason Shah - "Remember to Grow"**

(advised by David Ager)

[text](/file_url/901)



 

 



 



**Natali Alcala - "Coloring Outside the Lines"**

(advised by Bo-Mi Choi)

[text](/file_url/903)



 

 



 



**Umang Shukla - "The End of It All"**

(advised by Diana Eck)

[text](/file_url/904)



 

 



 



**Alexander Karadjian - "The Art of Being Yourself"**

(advised by Diana Eck)

[text](/file_url/905)



 

 



 



**Jonathan Warsh - "Death and Other Upbeat Topics"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/906)



 

 



 



**Meghan Cleary - "Dad's Girlfriend"**

(advised by Dorothy Austin)

[text](/file_url/907)



 

 



 



**Krishna Prabhu - "Spat on the Face"**

(advised by Van and Sergio)

[text](/file_url/908)



 

 



 



**Chris Hollyday - "Applying Knowledge: Who Cares?"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/896)



 

 



 



**Helen Tsim - " Superheroes"**

(advised by Patricia Villareal)

[text](/file_url/895)



 

 

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**Julia Fifer - "Belonging"**

(advised by Sandra Rapoport)

text



 

 



 



**Gerardo Flores - "Lontué"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/894)



 

 



 



**Christine Hurd - "They Never Kill the Court Jester"**

(advised by Marta Sobur)

[text](/file_url/893)



 

 



 



**Frankie Maldonado - "Via! Via! Via!"**

(advised by Sandy Ullman)

[text](/file_url/892)



 

 



 



**Aznavur Dustmamatov - "Things That Gather"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/891)



 

 



 



**Johnny Motley - "A Few Things I've Recently Learned"**

(advised by Dorothy Austin)

[text](/file_url/890)



 

 



 



**Giuliana Repetti - "A River, a Memory, and Illegal Cheese"**

(advised by Dam and Regine)



 

 



 



**Abiola Laniyonu - "A Thank You"**

(advised by Noam Elkies)



 

 



 



**Rebecca Gruskin - "What Can Old, Dead White Men Tell Us About Life?"**

(advised by Gail Gilmore)

[text](/file_url/889)



 

 

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**Katie Zavadski - "Telling the Truth"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/888)



 

 



 



**Sylvia Chen - "More Than Just Friends"**

(advised by Van Tran)

[text](/file_url/887)



 

 



 



**Minji Kim - "Invisible Forces"**

(advised by Regine and Katie)

[text](/file_url/886)



 

 



 



**Ilya Leskov - "The Routine"**

(advised by Resident Tutor)

[text](/file_url/885)



 

 



 



**Arturo Villanueva - "Hey, Look Around You. Smile."**

(advised by June Erlick)

[text](/file_url/884)



 

 



 



**Kevin Lin - "A Beatbox Progression"**

(advised by Oludamini Ogunnaike)

[text](/file_url/883)



 

 



 



**Michael Oberst - "A Question of Scope"**

(advised by R.J. Jenkins)

[text](/file_url/882)



 

 



 



**Susanna Mierau - "Peace Witness"**

(advised by Resident Tutor)

[text](/file_url/881)



 

 



 



**Tina Liu - "Is Ignorance Bliss?"**

(advised by Katie Pfohl)

[text](/file_url/880)



 

 



 



**Robert Ruffins - "The Things We Carry"**

(advised by Oludamini Ogunnaike)

[video](https://vimeo.com/20628796)



 

 



 



**Marina Connelly - "The Year of the Dog"**

(advised by Gail Gilmore)



 

 



 



**Jane Williams - "7-Letter Words"**

(advised by Oludamini Ogunnaike)

[text](/file_url/879)



 

 



 



**Jin-Ji Kim - "On Return"**

(advised by Oludamini Ogunnaike)

[text](/file_url/878)



 

 



 



**Sarah Zhang - "Mimetic Desire"**

(advised by Suzanne Lane)

[text](/file_url/877)



 

 



 



**Vishal Lugani - "Improbably Incredible India!"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/876)



 

 



 



**Courtney Yadoo - "Teaching as Autobiography"**

(advised by Sandy Ullman)

[text](/file_url/875)



 

 



 



**Doug Bright - "Funny, Like How a Dead Clown Smells"**

(advised by R.J. Jenkins)

[text](/file_url/874)



 

 



 



**Michael Zuckerman - "Insignificance"**

(advised by Richard Tarrant)

[text](/file_url/873)