Reading reflections
Recently, an NPR report covered summer
reading assignments at college campuses.
Elissa Nadworny ’10, a reporter for NPREd,
reflected on her summer reading experience
while she was at Skidmore.
Click here for the story.
Every year, as part of Skidmore’s First-Year Experience program, the incoming class
participates in a summer reading assignment.
Like similar assignments at other colleges around the country, the summer reading
serves as a shared experience for the newest members of the community. At Skidmore,
faculty work to integrate themes from the reading assignment into the classroom and
beyond.
For the Class of 2019, the summer reading is Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman. Described as a “fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905,” Einstein’s Dreams portrays the conception of time through written word. Incoming students are challenged to think about ways they could express time’s various movements through different media such as dance, music, and equations.
Members of Skidmore’s faculty—ranging from Biology to Gender Studies, Mathematics and Computer Science, and English and Government—were also asked to weigh in on the assignment. Read the faculty reflections here.
As an added bonus, Alan Lightman, a professor at MIT, will visit Skidmore on Monday, Sept. 21, for a special evening with the Class of 2019.
