If you could contribute one book to the list,
what would it be and why?
Bennington’s FieldWork Term Office invites employers across the globe to consider hosting a Bennington student during its annual 7-week
winter internship period. If you’ve come across a business or organization whose work fascinates you, please tell us about it.
Option 1 Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and former Bennington College faculty member Mary Oliver is particularly well known for her
close observations of the natural world. Below is a poem from her collection House of Light. Please write an essay about something you think
is worth paying attention to.
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out on the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Design an experiment that attempts to determine whether toads can hear. Provide the rationale for your design—explain your
reasons for setting up the experiment as you did. Strive for simplicity and clarity.
Bennington College faculty members design courses rooted in their intellectual passions and experience. If you were to design a
course, what experiences or interests would you draw upon? Your course might combine seemingly disparate subjects—philosophy and jazz,
for example—or it could be focused on a single experience, such as designing a scientific experiment. Please respond to this question in two
parts. First, write a one-paragraph course description with the title for the class you would teach. Second, write an essay that describes why
you chose to create this particular course.
1) What aspirations, experiences, or relationships have motivated you to pursue the study of architecture?
2) Outside of academics, what do you enjoy most or find most challenging? (Responses to each section should be approximately one page.)
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