Ei! My name is Antônio Jorge Medeiros Batista Silva (yes—four last names!) and I'm a '25 from Governador Valadares, Brazil. My journey to Dartmouth has crossed two continents, three countries, and over 10 schools—and I'm a strong believer that everyone's path to the Big Green was unique in a way. At Dartmouth, I am interested in studying Linguistics, Native American & Indigenous Studies, and Spanish. I am really passionate about social justice, learning languages, and the oxford comma!
This class is an introduction to the Spanish minor and major courses and, although I did not expect to particularly like it, it not only turned out to be my favourite but it made me start considering a degree in the department!
In this class, we analysed different productions of Latinx American theatre. Prof. Analola Santana was probably the best person I met this year at Dartmouth. Being her student was a very important experience as I try to navigate my potential majors and minors.
In this class, I was able to carve time out of my busy Dartmouth schedule to study and learn my Indigenous language: Krenak. With the help of Prof. Gokke, all students were encouraged to develop a final project that spoke to their community's needs for language learning and revitalisation. It was an extremely important class for me, not only academically, but also for my personal healing process.
I had the honour of spending my sophomore fall in Madrid, taking part in the Spanish FSP. There, Prof. Martín was not only a great professor, responsible for my favourite lecture of the program, but also an incredible company throughout our classes and in-country trips. Great way to wrap up my Spanish minor, honestly!
This was my second class in the NAIS department, and thus it took me one step closer to wrapping up my major. Nonetheless, it was Prof. Powell's genuine charisma and caring personality that made it my favourite of the term!
This course was definitely life changing! Prof. Pochedley, a visiting post-doc of the Potawatomi nation did a great job at keeping the students engaged while teaching us to see the land we inhabit as a source of knowledge and spirituality. In a majority Indigenous classroom, we got to develop individual projects related to our traditional homelands, learning to navigate the world through Native world lenses.
Prof. Gómez is one of those profs I've always wanted to take a class with. His work with the Horror genre in Modern Spanish literatures amazes me, and it was an honour to guide in-class discussions and develop my own research on the themes of science, testimony, and fear.
LING54 is an umbrella course: the actual content of the course may vary each year, but it is the common letter-number code to refer to the course taught abroad by your accompanying Dartmouth Linguistics professor. In this year's Linguistics Foreign Study Program (FSP), LING54 was a 'Language Documentation' class, wonderfully taught by Prof. David Peterson.
This is Antônio, once again! This is already my 37th post, can you believe it? Not that I think anyone has read all of them, but it's so much fun to have my own journal up here in the web haha.
Recently, as I was going thorough my People Places Pines profile, I realised many of my posts relate to different parts of my identity: being multiracial, being Latino, being queer, and much more. But here, I seem to have never talked about being Christian!
For the ones who know me personally, it is clear that going to church is an important part of my weekly routine. Being born to a Catholic mom and to a Methodist father, it was at Sunday School that I learnt to be in peace with myself. Currently, my family and I are part of the Anglican Church back in Brazil and, here at Dartmouth, I was surprised to learn about all the ways I could get involved with the Episcopal Church—which is the North American branch of Anglicanism.
Since freshman fall, every Sunday I try to carve out my morning off my schedule to be able to attend the rite at St. Thomas Church. It not only took some space in my Google Calendar, but it became a weekly motivation to wake up early on the weekends and be productive the rest of the day. Although this term I am not dancing with DDE (the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble), during my freshman year I would usually leave church, grab lunch, and go straight to practice. That Sunday routine was literally one of the peaks of my week, especially after the winter blues hit me and I had to be more intentional about my health—both mental and physical.
As a new thing, since I got back to campus this winter, I have decided to attend the weekly Wednesday dinner at the Edgerton House. The Edge, as we call it, is an off-campus student housing maintained by the St. Thomas community. Besides housing a few students, it is also open every Wednesday night for dinner and religious discussions. Every term there's a new book—that somehow is related to the church, to religion, and, more specifically, to youth—that we read and discuss all together. Carving out time to be around people who believe in the same things as I do has been very valuable to me.
Me taking my best friend Julie to Church this Sunday!
Well, this is a part of me some of you might not have read about yet, so thank you for sticking with me :)
I have written about being a student worker plenty of times in the past, but I have yet to talk about one of my favorite jobs ever: ticket selling at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
On Monday, April 8, 2024, a phenomenal total solar eclipse occurred — and we happened to be within the path of totality. As a result, Dartmouth hosted a variety of eclipse-related events on- and off-campus. Find out how I spent the eclipse!
