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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 2/9/2012
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Every Tuesday I arrive an hour early and walk in a different direction at Penn, settling my mind for the teaching ahead. This is what I saw this past Tuesday, when I walked first to the most eastern end of the campus, and then west. That's my city, shining, from the newly renovated South Street Bridge.
By: Beth Kephart ,
on 1/25/2012
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Over the course of ten minutes yesterday, 130 photographs were taken of the Penn campus by a classroom of students and their teacher. That's 130 brand new photos—pictures that will never be taken again—not precisely, not ever. The clouds won't whip that wide again, that pedestrian won't ignore that sign so unknowingly again, that man standing in the corner watching himself be watched by a camera has already disappeared.
And that's the point, when we're writing memoir—or at least that's part of the point. No picture like this one. No day like yesterday. No one like us.
How to write it all down, then, and how to make it matter?
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By: Beth Kephart ,
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And that's the point, when we're writing memoir—or at least that's part of the point. No picture like this one. No day like yesterday. No one like us.
How to write it all down, then, and how to make it matter?
4 Comments on no one like us. the Penn campus, yesterday., last added: 1/28/2012
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I love college campuses!
I really love the perspective of the third image...and the cityscape is nice too. I hope you have a great day.
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
You are making me college sick!