Hey everyone! I'm Cooper from Wayne, Pennsylvania, which is right outside of Philadelphia. I am a '28 here at Dartmouth, and plan on studying Quantitative Social Science and Cognitive Science. In my free time, I love getting food with friends, playing pickleball, watching sitcoms (personal favorite is Modern Family), and going on walks. I am super excited to be here and cannot wait to take you along my journey at Dartmouth!
I took this class with Professor Binkoski, and I absolutely loved it! We explored numerous theories regarding time travel and the existence of time, and it just completely blew my mind. Professor Binkoski is such an engaging lecturer and explains everything so thoroughly, which makes the class so incredible! After taking this class, I have become more interested in philosophy and cannot wait to take more classes in this department.
I took this class with Professor Horiuchi and learned more than I could have possibly imagined! This course is incredibly challenging and has a good amount of work, but I learned so much about the programing language R as well as how to wrangle and visualize data. By taking this class, I have confirmed that I want to major in QSS because of how interesting the material was. If you want to enhance your skills in R, this is the class to take!
In order to fulfill my language requirement, I took Spanish 9 with Professor Rieumont. This class was simply incredible. Not only was the content interesting and engaging, but my actual class itself (both the professor and fellow students) made this class so memorable. We learned so much about Spanish-speaking cultures all while having so much fun doing it, and I am so grateful that I took this class with such an amazing group!
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I was home for the summer! I was able to catch up with family and friends, work at a local ice-cream shop, and relax for a few months. It was amazing to be back in my hometown!!
I took this class with Professor Emily Finn, and I absolutely adored it! Because it is an introductory class, you learn about various topics within the neuroscience field, but mainly at the surface level. It was incredibly interesting, and it is a perfect introduction to the major overall!
Welcome back! I hope you have been enjoying this series so far. For this week's course, I will be discussing Phil 1.08, also known as the Philosophy of Time and Time Travel. This class can count towards a philosophy major/minor, as well as a prerequisite to higher level philosophy classes. This is really useful for me because as a cognitive science major, I need to take one of these higher level courses, so this class was perfect for me! This class fulfills the TMV (Thought, Meaning, and Value) distributive requirement, which I believe is one of the more difficult distributions to get!
I took this class with Professor Binkoski, a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth. This class was medium-sized, with approximately 30 people in it. With regards to the actual class structure, it consisted mainly of lectures regarding all things time travel, as well as a good chunk of class open to questions about the content (believe me, you will have endless questions in this class!). Professor Binkoski is truly an incredible lecturer, and made this class so interesting and fun because of the ways in which he talked about these topics. He utilized the whiteboard extensively to write down the many theories we discussed, which made it much easier to understand. Although the topics could be challenging to grasp, he hosts many office hours to ask further questions which was super helpful!
An example of a proof I was working on!
In terms of assignments in this class, we have daily reading questions, 4 short essays about various topics regarding time travel, and a final project that was very open-ended. For my project, I made an informational video about how Avengers: Endgame gets time travel wrong. The fact that this project is so open ended is truly incredible and allowed me to have a lot of fun for my final! Overall, this class is one of the best I have taken here at Dartmouth so far. It is incredibly interesting and touches on a topic you normally do not see in a college course.
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