In Middle Earth Middle School, we read the LOTR and I also read everything by Tolkien that I could find, including the Lost Tales, his poetry for children, and Beowulf.
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In order to graduate we had to produce our own version of the LOTR trilogy, which was presented over the rogation days 2014. we also went on a kayaking/mountain hiking adventure as a fellowship.
We also began to upload our stuff to neocities in honor of Aaron Swartz who died in January 2013. we studied the Marathon Bombing as well as into the wild versus walden.
In high school we studied Pasolini and Frassati (also Leon the professional which I already had seen) which was particularly poignant given the santa Barbara shooting which had occured shortly after middle school graduation.
I built a walden cabin during this time.
we aso learned automotive mechanics in this time.
Spring 2013. Aaron Swartz and the rise of Anonymous, Coding with html, Cybernetics,
The Lord of the Rings, Introduction to Photography, Leon: the professional 101
Alexander the Great: the ambiguity of greatness. Anthropolgoy 101,
EDUCATION: Studied privately due to the severe mental illness of immediate relatives and consequent instability in family economics. Participated in the creation of an online university system which attracted 1500 students a day before mentally ill participants forced it to reorganize.
Began to take college level classes online shortly after the death of Aaron Swartz, and the reorganization of Geocities as Neocities when Wellesley College offered its first EDEX class, in the fall of 2013. Continued in this direction and has earned credits for 3 undergraduate degrees, in the humanities,(for example, wrote a musical examining the effects of music on culture) the social sciences (according to Pasolini, Frankfurt, Tolkien, Weber, Wittgenstein, Jacques Ranciere and others, examined mental disease and the existential crisis in the light of global socio-economics and UBI) and the natural sciences (such as, volcanology, agronomy, botany and astronomy). My full transcript will soon be available online here at this private link, along with links to the various schools of Uriel's University which we are reconstructing after the attack. I am particularly interested in new forms of government, such as intentional community and direct democracy.