At Tillie’s on DeKalb with Marisa, working. Yesterday I did my first interview with my aunt for the Antioch College strike play project. We talked about her freshman year and her first co-op work experiences. Antioch is in session year-round, with students taking quarters to go work, either locally or out of town. Her first two co-ops were as a nursing assistant at a home for the severely mentally retarded and a surgical assistant at Mass General Hospital. She made it seem as if students were constantly bringing new influences back into the campus, from all their trips away – and that her experiences of college were much more real-world than bubble. It sounds like an educational method that I would have loved.

Saturday was the Yellow Springs campus’s last forseeable commencement, since the school is closing its doors.

She asked me how I thought this was going to become a play, and I had to say I didn’t have a definite idea – I just have a feeling the material will reveal itself.