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**Christine Hurd - "Memoirs of a Gaysha"**

(advised by Diana Eck)

[video](https://vimeo.com/38136050)



 



 



**Eli Martin - "Going Back Home?"**

(advised by Ari Hoffman)

[video](https://vimeo.com/38135302)



 



 



**Juliet Macchi - "Just Jump"**

(advised by Brett Flehinger)

[text](/file_url/930)



 



 



**Natali Alcala - "To My Mother"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/931)



 



 



**Barbara DePena - "Remebering and Forgetting"**

(advised by R.J. Jenkins)

[text](/file_url/932)



 



 



**Araba Appiagyei-Dankah - "Love: It's Not That Complicated"**

(advised by R.J. Jenkins)

[text](/file_url/933)



 



 



**Eric Newcomer - "An Observer's Worldview"**

(advised by Diana Eck)

[text](/file_url/934)



 



 



**Ethan Pierce - "Sunday at the Park with Jon"**

(advised by Susanna Mierau)

[text](/file_url/935)



 



 



**Brian Feldman - "The Benefits of Poor Decisions"**

(advised by David Albert)

[video](https://vimeo.com/37657178)



 



 



**Avinaash Subramaniam - "Mr. Body Beautiful"**

(advised by Regine Joseph)

[video](https://vimeo.com/37655960)



 



 



**Amrita Dani - "On Listening"**

(advised by Ari Hoffman)

[text](/file_url/936)



 



 



**Gillian Farrell - "Bicontinental"**

(advised by Peter Wright)

[text](/file_url/937)



 



 



**Eric Glyman - "China and Brazil: What You Need to Know"**

(advised by Bill Crout)

[text](/file_url/938)



 



 



**Ryan Christ - "Remembering the Future"**

(advised by Diana Eck)

[text](/file_url/939)



 



 



**Maggie Geoga - "The Shipwrecked Sailor"**

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

[text](/file_url/940)



 



 



**Marina Connelly - "... And Words Are All I Have"**

(advised by Kevin McGrath)



 



 



**Eric Hendey - "Dissecting a Memory"**

(advised by Andrew Klaber)

[video](https://vimeo.com/37285001)



 



 



**Michael Altman - "It's Not How Hard You Work"**

(advised by Michael Puett)

[text](/file_url/941)



 



 



**Ken Liu - "It's Going the Extra Mile that Counts"**

(advised by Jonathan Bruno)

[text](/file_url/942)



 



 



**Arturo Elizondo - "What If"**

(advised by David Ager)

[text](/file_url/943)



 



 



**Gorick Ng - "Breaking the Bubble"**

(advised by David Ager)

[text](/file_url/944)



 



 



**Yoan Dipita N'Kmoba - "What We Ought to Do"**

(advised by Oludamini Ogunnaike)

[text](/file_url/945)



 



 



**CJ Curtis - "Play the Game Right"**

(advised by David Ager)

[text](/file_url/947)



 



 



**Chloe Veron - "The Definition of Normal"**

(advised by Jonathan Walton, Sandy Wolitzky)

[text](/file_url/946)



 



 



**Peggy Walenda Mativo - "Out of Africa (A True Story)"**

(advised by Marta Sobur)

[video](https://vimeo.com/36669182) / [text](/files/lowell/files/0212_peggy_speech_-_sba_comments.pdf?m=1455898629)



 



 



**Nicandro Iannacci - "In Defense of the Midwest"**

(advised by Brett Flehinger)

[text](/file_url/948)



 



 



**Michaela Tracy - "To Teach is to Learn"**

(advised by Marta Sobur)

[text](/file_url/949)



 



 



**Courteney Smith - "Growing Up in Red Sox Nation"**

(advised by Marta Sobur)

[text](/file_url/950)



 



 



**Carolina Ragolta - "To Infinity, an Beyond!"**

(advised by Peter Wright)

[text](/file_url/957)



 



 



**Briana Jackucewicz - "Breaking the Tape"**

(advised by Beth Terry)

[text](/file_url/956)



 



 



**Bryan Chuan - "Why You Should Give a Speech"**

(advised by Andy Leifer)

[text](/file_url/955)



 



 



**Danielle Rabinowitz - "Eva's Story"**

(advised by R.J. Jenkins)

[video](https://vimeo.com/35871475)



 

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**Katie Zavadski - "Lena's Story"**

(advised by Florence Ladd)

[text](/file_url/954)



 



 



**Frank Maldonado - "Where Does the World End?"**

(advised by Katie Hwang)

[text](/file_url/953)



 



 



**Debra Chang - "The Value of "Non Busy" Time"**

(advised by David Ager)

[text](/file_url/952)



 



 



**Carla Ferreira - "You Don't Earn Love"**

(advised by R.J. Jenkins)

[text](/file_url/951)



 



 



**Kathleen Tang - "How I Made the Perfect Friends"**

(advised by Kate Walro)

[video](https://vimeo.com/36323470)