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Thursday, April 13, 2017
This month features Great Books Stanford's resident BFFs: Tatie Balabanis ( Stanford '19 ) and Martina Lentino ( UChicago '19 ). Both Tatie and Martina hail from Miami, and their friendship began in a fated gym class during their freshman year of high school.
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Meet UChicago students Zak Lutz and Dan Ackerman, our tag-team duo for a special double issue of the Nerd of the Month! Need any reassurance of their collective nerdiness? Take a peek at question #8, where they both cite the UChicago library as their favorite aspect of university life.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Meet Michael Vaclav, Shakespearean monologue expert, Great Books Eagle Scout, Amherst Lead PA, and our final Nerd of the Month before camp!
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Eve taught a class on rare books and manuscripts for Great Books in the summer of 2015. They looked at some medieval manuscripts and early printed books at Amherst College Special Collections, and had a “traveling scriptorium” day where they practiced writing with a quill pen and parchment.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Thomas Hopper is a Southern gentleman, Renaissance scholar, Renaissance man, and the reason everyone has food and shelter at Great Books @Amherst. Noah Arthurs is an existentialist, a Stanford University student, veteran PA, and a world champion blindfolded speed Rubik’s cube solver.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Meet Kaitlyn, indy publisher, GBSP’s Best Dressed at Every Dance award recipient, veteran Amherst PA, and February’s Nerd of the Month.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Meet Trevor Stankiewicz, J.D. Salinger and Taylor Swift aficionado, actor, playwright, Stanford Program Assistant, and our first Nerd of the Month of 2016!
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Meet Anna; writer, poet, interpretive tambourine dancer, veteran Stanford camper, Taylor Swift’s biggest fan, and our final Nerd of the Month of 2015!
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Meet Rosy, community activist, veteran Stanford Program Assistant, sunscreen’s biggest fan, and November’s bonus Nerd of the Month!
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Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Meet Jonathan Nathan, classics enthusiast, translator extraordinaire, veteran Program Assistant, and our Nerd of the Month for November!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Meet Mercedes, Amherst College tour guide, music enthusiast, fairy-winged Program Assistant, and our Nerd of the Month for October!
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Monday, September 28, 2015
Meet Piers Gelly, Amherst College Lead PA, river boatman, Edgar Allen Poe lookalike, and our first Nerd of the Month for the new season!
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Monday, May 04, 2015
Nerd of the Month, Diva Parekh, shares her love of Harry Potter and explains why she prefers hardcover to paperback.
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Friday, February 20, 2015
Meet Lily Geraty, our Lead Program Assistant at Great Books- Amherst 2015 and Nerd for February. Lily is a Norse Mythology buff and hails from Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Monday, January 12, 2015
Stanford Academic Director, Noah Rosenblum, shares a few nerdy fun facts while writing his dissertation.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Priya Purohit, is an Associate Academic Director at the GBSP Stanford program and a well-known Harry Potter buff, currently researching at Indiana University, Bloomington’s Maurer School of Law.
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Spencer Lenfield, Program Assistant at Amherst '13 and Oxford '14, explains why Harry Potter would win against Iron Man, and illuminates the utility of the word, "efflorescence."
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Monday, September 08, 2014
Great Books is excited to announce a new blog series called "Nerd of the Month," featuring profiles on nerdtastic members of our community. Nerds of the Month share with you their favorite books, least favorite words, and nerdiest secrets.
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