2012 Required Summer Reading College Freshmen

Parent Cafe
1

<p>Bumping for 2012. I always enjoy this thread and get great summer reading suggestions.</p>

2

<p>Catch 22
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor</p>

3

<p>here is the link to last year’s thread. </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1160898-summer-reading-freshmen-2011-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1160898-summer-reading-freshmen-2011-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Please post by college</p>

4

<p>“Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman” -Richard Feynman</p>

5

<p>Montana State Univ. “Extraordinary, Ordinary People” by Condoleezza Rice</p>

<p>She is speaking at the Freshmen Convocation.</p>

6

<p>

</p>

<p>Those are some lengthy books…</p>

7

<p>NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays</p>

8

<p>Please also post the schools that are requiring these books for this years freshman</p>

<p>Catch 22
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor
“Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman” -Richard Feynman</p>

9

<p>Summary:
Montana State Univ. “Extraordinary, Ordinary People” by Condoleezza Rice
NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering: The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites</p>

10

<p>Montana State Univ. “Extraordinary, Ordinary People” by Condoleezza Rice
NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering: The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites
WUSTL - The Other Wes Moore</p>

11

<p>Adding Kalamazoo College</p>

<p>Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites
Kalamazoo College - Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Montana State Univ. *Extraordinary, Ordinary People * by Condoleezza Rice
NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays
WUSTL - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore</p>

12

<p>Hampshire College: Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between, by Jeff Sharlet</p>

<p>Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites
Hampshire College - Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between, by Jeff Sharlet
Kalamazoo College - Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Montana State Univ. Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice
NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays
WUSTL - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore</p>

13

<p>Adding Bucknell:</p>

<p>Bucknell Univ - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites
Hampshire College - Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between, by Jeff Sharlet
Kalamazoo College - Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Montana State Univ. Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice
NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays
WUSTL - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore</p>

14

<p>Any of them reading Fifty Shades of Grey? :)</p>

15

<p>Adding Gustavus:</p>

<p>Bucknell Univ - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites
Gustavus Adolphus - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Hampshire College - Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between, by Jeff Sharlet
Kalamazoo College - Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Montana State Univ. Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice
NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays
WUSTL - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore</p>

16

<p>Sorry, never mind.</p>

17

<p>Adding Tulane:</p>

<p>Bucknell Univ - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites
Gustavus Adolphus - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Hampshire College - Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between, by Jeff Sharlet
Kalamazoo College - Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Montana State Univ. Extraordinary, Ordinary People by Condoleezza Rice
NYU Gallatin - Antigone + some lengthy essays
Tulane - Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
WUSTL - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore</p>

18

<p>Whitman College: The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson.</p>

19

<p>Adding Georgetown University:</p>

<p>Bucknell Univ - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites
Georgetown University- The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel by T</p>

20

<p>UNC-Chapel Hill - The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, by Nicholas Carr</p>