Photo Project - Projet Photos


The goal is for you to choose a common cultural notion or concept - or a common specific aspect of your daily life - to illustrate and compare. Please use this forum to share ideas and suggestions with your transatlantic partners about what you might want to illustrate. Several small groups of MIT and Polytechnique students will thus be formed around common topics of interest. Le but est de choisir en commun une notion ou un concept culturel – ou un aspect spécifique de votre vie quotidienne – à illustrer et comparer. Veuillez utiliser ce forum pour échanger avec vos partenaires transatlantiques vos idées et suggestions quant à des sujets possibles à illustrer. Vous formerez ainsi plusieurs petits groupes d'étudiants (de Polytechnique et du MIT) autour de sujets qui vous intéressent.

Rebecca 04/09/2006.12:30:35
"Would anyone be interested in doing a project about sports? -Becky Idell"

Jennifer 04/09/2006.13:53:50
"Is anyone interested in the role of drinking in college (US vs. France) due to the differences in legal drinking age and cultural aspects? -Jennifer"

Lisa 04/09/2006.16:15:27
"Aw I wanted to do something about the role of drinking! haha but otherwise... maybe something about materialism and brand-names and shopping?"

Brandon 04/09/2006.16:36:15
"I'm toying with the idea of the role of film and how movies affect our cultures. I'm no movie expert, but I'm mildly interested in the effect "the silver screen" has on us culturally. I'm also intersted in the role of sports, good idea, Becky!"

Hashem 04/09/2006.17:01:16
"Yeah sports sounds like a good idea. If we want something to be specifically American, go with something along the lines of baseball or football? How are we supposed to present this though?"

JinSuk 04/09/2006.17:21:13
"Hey, Does anyone want to something about random things on campus? Pics at midnight, daily life etc? jin kim"

Adriana 04/09/2006.21:45:14
"An idea would be to present fraternities and sororities, which I think are very "American" and are a big part of any college, MIT in particular. I also like the drinking idea, Jennifer."

Vladimir 04/10/2006.00:07:57
"I think frats and drinking could be combined into one topic, maybe. I definitely like the football/baseball idea. Baseball might be easier since it's baseball season. I went to Fenway a lot last year and have some photos. Maybe we could go on a field trip and see a game there and take interesting pictures. Perhaps we could compare baseball to the popular sports in France (soccer?). -Dima"

Kathryn 04/10/2006.01:48:09
"The drinking idea sounds interesting, and combining it with greek life could work as well. I'd be up for taking a field trip to see a red sox game. Seems like sports is prevailing here, but is anyone interested in comparing different musical groups and their role in student life? I was under the impression we were to discuss with the students at l'X about topics, but I don't know where they are, so I guess we can just bring up the topics we've discussed here in class tomorrow. -Katie"

Teodora 04/10/2006.07:50:25
"Hey, How about something on the many, many different clubs that we have and how they effect community/ diversity here on campus. Besides that, I would also be interested in doing something on greek life but I think it would be nice to look at some of the more positive aspects of greek life rather than just the drinking aspect. -Tia"

Adrian 04/10/2006.08:30:48
"The idea of drinking presented by some of you sparked something along the same lines: smoking. I think it would be really interesting to document in photos the cultural significance of smoking (cigarettes is my original idea, although maybe it could be expanded to drugs as well, maybe) in the US and in France. I hope there's somebody else interested in this project. -Adrian"

Brock 04/10/2006.08:46:42
"I would be interested in exploring the affect of films, movies and the media on popular culture. Also, culture of alcohol on campus would be interesting to investigate."

Ashley 04/10/2006.08:52:06
"I would be interested in a project on smoking, considering the smoker/non-smoker dichotomy in the U.S. I think there would be more to say about it (e.g. the current debate over smoking in public places) than drinking in France. Drinking just seems to be a non-issue there (although I agree that it would be very interesting on our end)..."

Pierre 04/10/2006.09:16:05
"Bonjour, Je pense que le theme des verres (drink glasses or recipients) pourrait nous devoiler la maniere dont les americains et les francais boivent (de l'alcool ou autre ...!). Cela montrerait de plus ce que l'on boit et a quel moment! Pierre"

Alban 04/10/2006.09:25:54
"salut tout le monde, j'aimerais bien aue le sujet des amis et de l'amitie soit aborde, qui sont nos amis? que fait on avec eux. et meme grace a ca, on peut savoir comment ses derniers nous aident (ou pas) a murir ( ce n'est pas le terme exact mais j'en ai pas trouve de meilleur, en quelquesorte comment structure notre personnlite et notre comportement en fonvtion de ses amis0"

Matthieu 04/10/2006.14:15:55
"Salut à tous. Je suis assez chaud pour faire les thèmes sur le sport ou l'alcool. Je pense en effet que cela peut permettre de caractériser les différences de comportement entre notre belle jeunesse française et son alter ego de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. Matthieu"

Hashem 04/10/2006.16:36:29
"Hi All- A couple of us got together and want to do something about the university newspaper. This would include talking about: - price - distribution - content - frequency of publication etc Is there a university (or student-run) newspaper at Polytechnique? Is this something some of you would be interested in?"

Josephine 04/12/2006.23:16:51
"Hi all, I'm thinking of doing a project on how students spend their free time. I'm thinking the Student Center may present a fair reflection on that theme. One question also, is there a Student Center at Polytechnique? Or just a place where students usually hang out at?"

Hashem 04/23/2006.21:52:34
"Hi again, So we got a chance to speak with Hatim when he was here, and we'd like to move forward on the comparison of the school newspaper. If there's a group that's interested in doing the same at l'X, please contact us at: Hashem - hashem@mit.edu Adriana - a_lopez@MIT.EDU Katia - k_acosta@mit.edu Thanks!"

Teodora 04/24/2006.07:41:03
"Hey, I think a group of us are going to try to modify the idea of "random activities at midnight" and rather make it "after school schedule" This way we can make comparisons of when studiants at MIT and at L'X do the same activities, how much time they spend doing them, how late they stay up and things like that. my email is tia@mit.edu- I don't know the rest of the group's emails but I can post them soon. - Tia"

JinSuk 04/24/2006.08:00:12
"Hi all, I would like to be a part of the afternoon schedule also. I think that it would be a interesting experience. My email is jkim123@mit.edu Jin Kim"