Softball Looks Back on its Summer Happenings

With the 2014-15 academic year underway, the Princeton softball program looks back on what some of the current Tigers were up to this summer.

Junior Kate Miller

This summer I had an incredible opportunity to intern at Swedish Parliament. I worked as a political aide for a Member of Parliament, Göran Pettersson, who is a member of the Committee on Finance as well as a board member for the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, an independent non-governmental organization that seeks to increase transparency and accountability in development cooperation. I got the internship through the Princeton International Internship program. My biggest project for the summer was organizing and presenting an economic policy seminar at Parliament focused on entrepreneurship. I also wrote political briefings, hosted Göran's podcast and researched articles. One of the most exciting parts of the internship was going to Almedalen, Sweden's political week. Almedalen is an extremely unique yearly event that brings nearly all of Sweden's politicians, businesses and special interest groups together for a week of seminars, panels and lots of parties. Along with my fellow intern (also a Princeton student), I sailed with a political youth group (a 24 hour trip!) to Gotland, an island off the coast of Sweden to take part in the most engaging and diverse political event of the year. I had a fantastic summer in Stockholm, and was also able to do some traveling in Europe before heading home. In my travels, I visited Paris, Brussels, Rome, Venice, Copenhagen, Domsten in southern Sweden and Prague. I was able to meet up with teammate Claire Klausner in Prague for a weekend and then she flew back to Stockholm with me. We had a great time!

Sophomore Claire Klausner

The summer program I did was called "Plato in Berlin" and it was a Princeton summer seminar with 14 Princeton students from all classes and a Princeton philosophy professor named Benjamin Morison.

We spent five weeks in Berlin studying one book, The Republic, by Plato. So every day we went to class for three hours in the morning and discussed a section of the book with all of the other students and the professor in a classroom at Humboldt University in the middle of the city. We each were assigned two different sections of the book and had to present them as we came to them, so each day someone new would present a section and we would discuss it as a class. We had guest lectures from other professors, some involved with Princeton and others with Humboldt University. We also had debates with German students from Humboldt University. Some days we would have double days, so we'd have another three-hour session of discussion in the afternoon and other days we would do an activity as a class. We did two walking tours of Berlin, at least three guided museum tours, a boat tour on the Spree, and a visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, among other activities. At the end of the program, we were given two weeks to complete a 30-page paper on anything about The Republic. I visited Alyssa (Schmidt, right in photo) in Rome one weekend and traveled to Prague with Kate (Miller) another weekend.

Senior Cara Worden

"So last spring I was the recipient of the A. Scott Berg Fellowship, which awarded me the opportunity to pursue a research fellowship for my senior thesis with the funding of the English department. In June, I traveled to England where a spent a week of my research fellowship at the Bodliean Library at Oxford, and then a week at the British Library in London. I worked in the rare books and manuscript libraries, collecting information on two original copies of Aemelia Lanyer's 1611 poetry volume for a chapter of my thesis. In the poem I am particularly interested in, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women", Lanyer revisits and restructures 'normal' male and female roles as they were set forth and perpetuated by the story of Adam and Eve. Although I've been really excited about my thesis topic for a while, there really isn't anything more exciting than holding a primary source in your hands, while sitting in a library that was built in the 16th century. A perfect example of how special Princeton makes me feel. Yay old books!

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