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To all you majors in history, sociology, literature, economics, Africana studies, and sundry other subjects — welcome to Computer Science 101.

When the adapted 2020-21 academic calendar was released, I was both excited and wary about the two-month break between the fall and spring semesters. I worried that two months without classes or work — in addition to social distancing and COVID-19 lockdowns — was going to be a long period of enforced downtime. So when I read the Career Center email describing the new SnapShot virtual shadowing program, I knew that I had found the perfect solution.

As a psychoanalyst working with patients or as a painter facing a canvas — she’s practiced both careers for decades — Kate Emlen K’72 P’14, traces her expansive way of thinking back to her Kirkland College experience.

Dawun Smith '22 talks about working with the Wellin Museum as part of a BLSU project for Black History Month.

As part of Hamilton’s annual Feb Fest celebration, the Hamilton Outing Club led six students on a winter camping trip in the Kirkland Glen.

Courtney Pierre ’21 found that a position at Teach for America would complement many of the skills and interests she had developed at Hamilton.

It was a pretty great winter-break job for a student of cinema: A Chicago musician hired Devin Mendelson ’22 to create videos for a website that remembers victims of the pandemic. As it turned out, his work was widely viewed.

Fr. Peter (Boutros) El Hachem will serve the Hamilton community this semester as Catholic chaplain. He is the pastor at St. Louis Gonzaga Maronite Church in Utica, where he’s been administrator since 2019, having come to the U.S. from his native Lebanon.

Time to grab a blanket, pop some popcorn, and curl up on the couch to enjoy a movie or TV show with a Hamilton connection!

Immediately after arriving on College Hill, students took their first tests of the spring semester — for COVID-19. After a period of quarantining, classes began on Feb. 1.