Senior Class Series
by Abigail St. Clair Thomas
Profile 4
Anastasia Vartsaba
Major: Art History
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What did you dream about last night?
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A world and series of events that were reminiscent of Mancora, this Spanish film I saw earlier last night, and my day camp experience.
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What are you the most afraid of?
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Something bad happening to my family or the people I care about.
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What are you secretly obsessed with?
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Smell. Either something intimate, such as perfume or pheromones, or a general spatial smell that can instigate a memory.
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What do you see here?
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I see a woman giving birth accompanied by two poodles on the top left and right.
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What got you into the most trouble as a kid?
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When I first moved to the States as a child from Ukraine, I could not speak any English but desperately wanted to make friends. My method: push other kids on the ground, jump on them, and kiss them. My mom was called in the first week, and I needed to find a new way.
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Have you done anything recently you want to remember?
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After going through shelves of published literature on Abstract Expressionism and phenomenology, I finally realized what I want to argue in my senior thesis.
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Name an activity that makes you loose track of time.
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Netflix
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What do you look at first when you wake up?
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The snooze button
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Most memorable time a person motivated you to do something?
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Advice I try to live by is taken from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: “Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.