December 3, 2014 at 10:23 pm
It’s that time of month. Tonight, EnCore-sters met to discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The House of THE Seven Gables. One of the club attendees, the lovely Kim Santo, took great issue with one nefarious, print-on-demand copy of the novel present at the meeting that clearly lacked the necessary article on the volume title (I’ll let […]
November 24, 2014 at 11:04 am
Hard-Core alums gathered on Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) to discuss Angela Carter’s award-winning novel, Nights at the Circus. Over delicious El Pelon Mexican fare and several bottles of wine and beer, we bantered about Cockney accents, multiple voice narratives, and fin-de-siecle Europe’s fascination with the freaky, the sleazy, and the revolutionary. Is Fevvers (supposed […]
October 9, 2014 at 10:49 am
Pumpkin beer, pumpkin “blondies,” pumpkin whiskey (that’s right), pumpkin ice cream, Halloween-themed Jo-Jos, OTTO pizza, wine and cider and hot tea and more; this was the fall spread that the EnCore book club attendees tucked into as they pulled out their copies of Edgar A. Poe’s short stories. One could title this meeting “From Victorians […]
September 23, 2014 at 11:08 am
The Core is pleased to report that it was a distinct pleasure to host so many pleasant Core and Classics persons at this past Saturday’s Core/Classics reception, part of BU’s alumni weekend. We hope to see more of you this spring, when we hold our gala 25th anniversary! — with Michael J. Maguire, Ashley McIntosh, […]
February 20, 2014 at 8:15 pm
This month, EnCore book club attendees struggled with Erwin Schrodinger’s slim volume, What is Life?, a book that, as quoted in Goodreads, was “written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA.” Erwin Schrodinger is an inescapable figure in Core’s […]
November 15, 2013 at 10:55 pm
Big turn-out this month: EnCore book club members met to discuss the much-beloved Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley. The discussion began with the novel’s framing device. The story begins with an exchange of letters between Captain Robert Walton and his sister. The captain, on an expedition to the North […]
September 18, 2013 at 10:00 am
We asked our Core Alumni what succinct advice they could offer to new Core students as strategies for success in CC101. Here are some highlights: Beware the man whose trireme or codpiece is more impressive than yours. ~ Jonah Blustain (Core 2007, CAS 2009) [of course referring to Prof. Samons’ infamous trireme lecture!] Speak your mind, and […]
September 17, 2013 at 12:00 pm
We asked our Core Alumni what succinct advice they could offer to new Core students as strategies for success. Here are some highlights: For sophomores, Don’t give up, the benefits of Core will continue on and on in all your future classes, regardless of major. You will be so well prepared to draw comparisons and reference […]
September 17, 2013 at 10:00 am
(Core ’05, CAS ’07) Years at Boston University: 4 years Current location: Medford, MA (but works in Cambridge) Company and Title: “I’m currently a PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. I’m also affiliated with the Department of Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.” Recent activities: “I recently ran two legs […]
