A modern museum in the making

Carlos Polanco

Class of 2021
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About 

I'm a First Generation college student dedicated to bettering the communities that I am a part of. I love classical music, pineapple pizza, running, and, recently, ceramics. I feel “okay” about the cold but make the best of it by doing fun activities outside like ice skating on Occom Pond and sledding down the golf course. The reason that I chose Dartmouth is because of its people and the engaging atmosphere that we learn in. Proud to be an immigrant.

Academic Program 

English and Government, with a minor in African African-American Studies

Favorite Thing Right Now 

Eating snow

Hometown 

Clifton, NJ

Pronouns 

He/him/his

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Carlos' D-Plan

What's a D-Plan?

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: GEOG 23- Political Geography

      Analyze the relationship between power, knowledge, and space. Super cool fun class which introduced me to the Global South and writers from it. Highly recommend, Prof Kindervater is awesome!

    • WinterOn Campus

      Favorite Class: ENGL 80- Writing and Reading Fiction

      Imagine what Shonda Rhimes/any fiction writer does and that’s what I’m learning how to do. I write my own stories and develop them, bettering my descriptive and writing skills. For my final projects, I submitted two short stories which I crafted. At first, it was challenging because I had no idea what I would write about, but enjoyed the creative process.

    • SpringOn Campus

      Favorite Class: AAAS 56- The African Political Novel

      In this course, we examine the relationship between politics and the novel in order to understand how novels have affected Africa. The course employs a comparative method of looking at the novels, employing other fields of study as a method of study. The readings were incredibly interesting and complex as we tried to unpack the politics of Africa through novels.

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