[Leica] Re: BD' students (was press winners)

[aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler)]

I want to go back in time and take that class, BD!   How do you feel about 
auditors from 1000 miles away?!!?  :)

Best,
Aaron (another one who didn't know HCB at that age)

At 03:37 PM 2/12/2006, you wrote:
>They will indeed. They submit a weekly PAW, though their are specific
>requirwments for these PAWs, they read and write about a couple books, the
>have four exercises in addition to the PAWs, and they do a documentary
>project. As to going on, one student from that first class now shoots for
>SIPA in New England, and has been my TA for three classes. Another student
>is just now starting to do some professional work, and a third was, when
>last I heard, looking for assisting work in NYC. But all that said, these
>are engineering majors, computer scientists, bio majors, pre-meds, and,
>yes, rocket scientists. They are not journalism majors, or art or photo
>students. My course is just one of the humanities electives available to
>them.
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>...... Original Message .......
>On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:38:11 -0500 "bill harting" <vintagebill@verizon.net>
>wrote:
>"BD, will these students be assigned do a pj project such as the Starbucks
>"one your students did a couple of years ago? And what became of them
>"(especially the unusually excellent one)? Did any go on in the field? (not
>"that going on in the field is necessary).
>"
>"bill h (who also did not know H C-B at their age)
>"
>"
>"----- Original Message -----
>"From: "B. D. Colen" <bd_colen@harvard.edu>
>"To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>"Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:40 AM
>"Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: world press winners 2006
>"
>"
>"> One, Norm, not only are the kids I teach light years beyond me in the
>"> things technical to which you refer, they are flat out brilliant in terms
>"> of raw intelligence.
>"> But no, had I named Nachtwey they'd have done no better - I showed War
>"> Photographer in the first class and not one of them had ever heard of
>him.
>"> As to how I screen. In fact, I let more in each year, and try not to keep
>"> kids out. Each year I've had a few kids with virtually no previous photo
>"> experience, and no obvious talent, and grade them not on the quality of
>"> the
>"> work, but rather on the progress they make and initiative they show.
>">
>"> As to the quiz - there was a range of questions designed to show me if
>"> they
>"> had any photo backgound at all. All the results do is give me a way to
>"> make
>"> cuts if I need to.
>">
>"> All that said, I am far less sanquine than you about this generation. I
>"> saw
>"> a new study yesterday indicating that 18 to I believe 29 year olds on
>"> average read - reading of any tpe - on average of 4 min per day. I'm glad
>"> they can modify cars, but...
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>"> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:30:52 -0800 "Norm Aubin" <puff11@comcast.net>
>"> wrote:
>"> "formal academic environment.  I
>">
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