Contained Dystopias
The following piece is part of the Quest’s ongoing series featuring the assignments of Minerva students. This piece was an LBA written for Minerva’s Multimodal... Read More
San Francisco
The Castrolites
This is an edited version of a Multimodal Communications location-based assignment in San Francisco, California.
Evasion is cowardice.
In the... Read More
SF’s Project Roomkey: Responding to COVID-19 among Homeless Populations
This spring, governments of all levels issued COVID-19-induced border closures, lockdowns, quarantines, and shelter-in-place orders. For San Francisco, the cit... Read More
SFUSD Policy Changes: Students Must Choose Between Activism and Academics
Just a day before the Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20th, it surfaced on social media that the San Francisco United School District (SFUSD) rescinded their support for students participating in the strike. This angered many parents and student protesters who were marked absent or whose field trips to the strike were canceled.... Read More
Cross Class Vlogs – M19 “So Long, Class of 2019”
Follow along with Kah Yee's final vlog as a Minerva student as she shows us Minerva's first manifest, consequent, and graduation. Get a glimpse of the whirlwin... Read More
Faces of the Streets III — Hope & Homelessness
Every San Francisco resident is “familiar” with homelessness, but there’s a danger in familiarity, a crisis of apathy. How do you combat indifference? How do you reverse the process of familiarity without becoming ignorant?... Read More
Faces of the Streets II – Context & Homelessness
Previously, and quite arrogantly, I assumed that my preconception of homelessness was accurate. But I had oversimplified people – the fact that I simplified people at all shows the error of my ideas. But how do I correct such an error?... Read More
Faces of the Streets – Drugs and Homelessness
Since arriving in SF, one topic permeates discussions – homelessness. From swapping stories of close calls to commiserating about feeling useless, Minervans con... Read More
What would you do with one more day in San Francisco?
What would Minervans in the Classes of 2019 and 2020 do with just one more day in the city? We’ve gathered their answers for you here. Take this as motivation, curiosity, cross-Minerva-class-hand-me-down-nostalgia. ... Read More
Minervans Speak and Act Their Minds After Historic Election
The realisation of this upset hit hardest with American students, who were largely in a state of disbelief and grief. In the first hours, they shed tears and shared hugs, supporting each other after what seemed for many as though the world had fallen apart. Trump's victory, especially the implied rejection of the openness and diversity many students at Minerva stand for, proved hard to grapple with. ... Read More
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