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2007Class Notes Archives----- From December 2011 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● "Hello, Adrian Landon the artist metal sculptor here. I brought two life-size horse sculptures to France this summer: One to St. Tropez, the other to Deauville." (Click on link below to access Adrian's website) ----- From November 2010 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Alban Bressand wrote: "I seize this opportunity to say hi and let everyone know, for what it's worth, that I am currently doing an exchange in Buenos Aires for the semester, and will keep helping Jessica Schinazi and the new vice-president of our association -the FAA(French-American Alliance)- which will strive to receive this year other interesting guests and promote the French culture through various themed events around Columbia campus. Students who live or work in NY and are interested to join should contact Jessica or Alienor through "Contact Us" on our website, www.frenchamericanalliance.com" ● Adrian Landon informed us that we could "check out my latest piece, my life size metal sculpted horse" here: http://adrianlandon.com/adrian/lifesize_horse.html (or, click on link below) Videos of LFNY alumni on the internet: ● Tora Fisher performs at her first live gig at Don Hills, Sept. 3, 2010 (Click on link below) ----- From December 2009 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Adrian Landon wrote: "I am having a piece of my art in an exhibition at the Art Student League, opening on the 4th of December." ● Alban Bressand wrote: "Here is some information about the association I created a year ago and have been running jointly with Jessica Schinazi ('07) since then, called the French-American Alliance. I am a junior at Columbia College majoring in Philosophy and Economics. Jessica is also a junior at CC and is majoring in Economics and Hispanic studies. About a year ago, a friend came to me with the idea of organizing in the Columbia University setting a student association where students from both the French community and those with an interest in the broader French-American community would be able to meet each other and discuss contemporary issues in a comfortable environment. Our main objective was to welcome world class guest-speakers from a variety of domains each semester who would discuss and share with us the lessons they learned during their international careers. Outlining the challenges of what intellectually crossing borders represents, our guests help us better comprehend diverging views on a given subject and distill the essential compromises that can exist beyond these often cultural differences. Events take place with a limited number of people and with a strong interactive component so as to establish an informal, privileged relationship between our guests and our members. We decided not to be directly affiliated with Columbia (though we now organize our speaker events at the Maison Française of Columbia) and we also organize social events that are aimed at having fun and exchanging ideas in a setting where French culture is most manifest in the form of good wine and cheese. Although we pride ourselves in having a growing number of members who were alumni of the LFNY, our appeal is not limited to the Columbia community, and motivated students and young professionals who live in the NY area in general are actively present at our events. We invite you to visit our website [by clicking on the link below] to check out the guests who already came to speak with us and the ones who are coming next semester, and please contact us if you are interested in becoming a member and getting the latest news on our events." ----- From January 2009 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Guillaume Pfistner wrote: "I pushed back my graduation a year (to 2011) in order to pursue a double major in Accounting and Finance and I started giving tutoring lessons in accounting. I was also invited into the Golden Key International Honour Society and am working on volunteering at a local school." Adrian Landon wrote: "I graduated in '07. after that i went to africa for 2 months, doing volunteer work in the bush, then did a year of college in san francisco, had fun being creative and artistic (industrial design major) then i decided to take some time off from schooling because i've already been in school for 14 years and i wanted to go out and really live and really learn things, things you can't learn in school. so i volunteered at a wolf preserve all summer, then worked with the southwest conservation corps in arizona, digging and maintaining trails in the mountains and working in national parks, and made my first couple 1000 bucks, 2 to be precise, then started to learn how to make a cello with my father who is a violin maker and then i went to mammoth mountain in california, a ski resort, where i am working now as a lift operator and snowboarding for free. it's kind of like a vacation, work is very very easy, one thing i don't like is that i'm not learning very much doing this job, but i'm getting very good at snowboarding. i don't know if i'll ever go back to college, i know everyone thinks i should and if i have the opportunity and it might save my ass one day, why not. but there are some things i want to do in my life and i want to be satisfied with myself before i die and i know that making money isn't one of the things that's going to satisfy me. one thing i realize now that i have so much more time to think, that my thoughts are so much clearer. and when i think about my time at the lycee, i realized really how much more i could've learned, because you really teach a lot. but there was somethign missing. or maybe it was all too soon and fast. i know that many kids struggle very much in that school, i know i did, and i know now that what was missing was motivation. and that can't come only from the student. i think kids need much more diversity in their weekly activities, and especially in school. in physics for example, it's true that there is a lot of money put into microscopes and all the equipment used to facilitate and expand the learnings, but you still haven't made many projects where most kids in the class actually reallllly want to do it. when i was in college i made a little robot with wheels, a motor and sensors so that it could roll around on the a table and not fall off the edge. the objective of this project was to make a robot that would push the opponent off the table. this was a lot of fun, fairly simple, and very motivating. we had to use a soldering iron to connect the motor, the battery, the capacitor, the sensors and the other electronic features. i learned a bit more about electricity and it was really fun. it's just that it's asking a lot to sit in a class room for 2 hours and listen about philosophie. you know for a fact that have the students aren't listening and that most of the whole class cheats for tests, copies each other, uses sparknotes instead of reading the whole book. and you shouldn't try to catch these kids, or acquire better plagiarism detection software, but try to make class a little more enjoyable, motivate the kids. other than that i think i got a pretty good education." -----From July 2008 AALFNY Newsletter----- ● Philippe Gregori told us that he has been cited in the December 20, 2007 edition of Le Monde: "La fin du blocage du centre parisien Censier a été votée, mardi 18 décembre. Des tensions persistaient à Amiens. Quatre étudiants sont en grève de la faim à Montpellier. Jusqu'où n'irait-on pas contre une « loi fasciste » ? C'est ainsi que Philippe, étudiant en première année de licence de physique à Montpellier-II, qualifie, mardi 18 décembre, la loi Pécresse (loi LRU) sur l'autonomie des universités, dont il exige l'abrogation. Interrogé sur l'usage de ce terme, il persiste et signe, soulignant « le fait que ce gouvernement a commencé par attaquer les universités » et dénonçant « la désinformation des médias, tellement flagrante ». Philippe, qui, au téléphone, remercie Le Monde de faire écho à son action, n'est pas un plaisantin. Avec trois de ses camarades, Tristan, Lilian et Thomas, il est en grève de la faim depuis le 10 décembre. Installés à l'UFR de sciences, ils sont entourés par des étudiants qui, malgré l'arrêt du blocage depuis plus d'une semaine, restent mobilisés. Pourquoi en venir à cette extrémité ? « C'est un mode d'action non violent. Et radical. Là, au moins, on ne peut plus nous accuser de bloquer. Je vois que ça marche, car beaucoup de gens nous disent maintenant qu'ils ont du mal à dormir le soir », dit Philippe. Les grévistes de la faim de Montpellier s'attendent à être rejoints par d'autres, ailleurs. Philippe n'envisage pas une poursuite illimitée : « Nous avisons tous les deux ou trois jours. » Son objectif est à moyen terme : « Je suis sûr à 100 % qu'il y aura, après les vacances de Noël et après les partiels, une nouvelle étape du mouvement. Nous allons repartir sur de nouvelles bases. » " He is also cited in Liberation.fr. To read that full article, click on link below. ----- From December 2007 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Chase-Lyn Sage wrote: "I will be graduating top of my class from the Swedish Institute on January 28th. I will also be passing the NY state boards on January 24th. That's it for now! :)" ● Adrian Landon wrote: "Hey everyone, it's Adrian from San Francisco. How are you? Hope all is going well, hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. I came back to New York for Thanksgiving for three days but unfortunatly didn't get to see anyone; I just chilled with my mum, bro, girlfriend and dog. It was great, my mum cooked up a excellent feast and I ate enough chocolate to cover my face up in pimples for a week. :) hihihihi, silly me. And I'm not gay from living in San Francisco if that's what you're thinkin'. College is fun -- I watch so many movies that I don't like them anymore, It's super noisy to live in a dorm, theres a really loud obnoXIOUS f#*%^er who lives right across the hall from me, babbling all night. My neighbor smokes pot with a bunch of people in the little bathroom we share, lots of people smoke a lot of pot here, drink a lot, people just go on all night giggling and laughing, it makes me wonder. At night, when there are no cars, we ride down the hills on skateboards, risking our lives, awesomeness though, the speeeeeeeed, the sensation, the bus ride back up; the intense math I experienced at the Lycee is slowly fading away as I spend most of my time building things, making water pumps, ping pong ball launchers, balsa wood bridges (mine held 65 pounds). I'm layed back, in the Lycee I felt like I was smarter than most people. Here I know I am smarter than most people. Haha, cocky bastard. No, but seriously, this school only accepts those with the money, they do not check SAT scores at all, and lots of the kids here are just dumb. But that's not why I'm here though. The stuff is relatively easy, it's really fun sometimes, and I know for a fact that I am the one working the least out of everyone from the Lycee, but let me assure you that I didn't know about it, and that if I choose to continue this major, I might go to a more challenging and serious school. But I like San Fran. It's funny, I call the place I work in the 'testosterone factory', 'cause there are mostly guys and they're all here for the cars. It's fun though, it's chill. Learn the word 'hella', it's hella chill, nutella is hella good. New SAT word. I express my sophistication to the others in my dorm by drinking tea and listening to classical music, hahaha, and speaking French, cursing in French, and some of the ladies really love it. Here are some pictures of me, the pirate was for halloween, my dad came and it was great; he dressed as a monk, the jack sparrow joker was this random night, ten other people went for the joker look, entering for a contest for the new batman movie. Best group picture wins. We didn't win, but we looked pretty bad ass. Here is my teapot project, I got a C- on it but I think it's cool. It all started with a couple of designs, then after selecting one, a foam model was constructed, a model split in half down the middle. then I cast a sheet of acrylic over each half to make a mold, a one use only mold though. After removing the foam model from the mold, which means destroying the foam model, I poured instant cast into the model, which is two materials that you mix together, very toxic, and that acts like a liquid clay thay dries in half an hour. So my teapot ended up like a big block of clay-like material. After glueing the two halves together, sanding it down, sharpening the edges, I had to paint it, color by color, with a spray gun. It turned out nice, I wanted it to look like a rock that burst out of the ground from an earthquake or something, and give it lava like colors, as if it was lava in the process of drying. I also added little chunks of silver paint to mimic metal or crystals. I really miss all of you and hope to be able to see you during the Christmas break in New York, if you'll be there. I'm coming back on the 22nd of December for 5 weeks. Love, Adrian" |
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