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A Day in the Life of Mark Mauriello
Mark J. Mauriello '15 splits his days between school, theater rehearsal, and The Donkey Show: a wild, Midsummer Night's Dream-inspired interactive musical. Here is glimpse into a typical Saturday in Mauriello's life.
The Way Out
Mauriello leaves the Oberon to head home to Kirkland House. Along the way, he will run into his roommates and meet them for a late-night snack.
Between Shows
“I get to spend my Friday nights with my Harvard friends and Saturday night with my Donk friends. Or both.”
Becoming Puck
Mauriello paints his nails green while transforming into Doctor Wheelgood, a Puck-inspired, drug-dealing matchmaker in The Donkey Show.
Family Strife
Mauriello yells at Elizabeth Leimkuhler '15 during rehearsal for "Little Murders" in which he plays her wife and she his husband.
5 Questions With Dario Guerrero-Meneses
Dario Guerrero-Meneses ’15-’16, who came to the United States from Mexico when he was two and a half, recently wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post titled: “I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant. They gave me a full scholarship.” FM had the opportunity to chat with Guerrero-Meneses about his story, the article, and the response.
Hey Professor!
The Minerva School, an ambitious education project whose founder Ben Nelson described as “the first elite American university to be launched in a century,” opened to students this fall. With an advisory board that includes former Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers, the school live-streams immersive seminars to students—capped at 19 per class—for $10,000 a year. Instructional methods are based on cognitive learning research conducted by former Harvard Psychology professor Stephen M. Kosslyn, who joins Minerva as Founding Dean. Students live in San Francisco during their first year, then move together to different cities around the world for each of the following six semesters. FM sat down with the Kennedy School’s Paul E. Peterson, Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance, who analyzed the Minerva program.
A Day in the Life: Mark Mauriello
It’s a typical Saturday night for Mauriello, one of the stars of Diane Paulus’s “The Donkey Show.” It starts at the American Repertory Theater’s Oberon stage and ends, like Saturday nights at Harvard often do, with a Felipe's run.
You're Researching What?
With so many academics and researchers around Harvard, eclectic topics are bound to emerge. Here are some of FM’s favorites.
Reel Talk: VES Edition
Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies is home to some of the most creative minds in film, fine arts, and environmental studies. FM caught up with two VES faculty members—Dan J. Rowe, a teaching assistant, and Ruth S. Lingford, director of undergraduate studies in the department—to hear about their favorite films.
Scoped: Eric Q. Doyle
We got a tip that the nut guy at the farmer's market was hot. So we had to see for ourselves. Mostly, we imagine, people ask him, "What's the price of your nuts?" We rose above and asked the serious questions. We even (reluctantly) rejected the free samples.
Quiz the Quizmaster
FM interviews Raynor J. Kuang '17, a Harvard quizbowler about trivia and his personal life.
Falik's Restroom Streak
Up at the Law School, in the recently constructed Wasserstein Hall, there’s a restroom with a curious moniker. A plaque outside the sleek facilities proclaims, to any and all, that they are in the presence of the “Falik Men’s Room.”
Ph.D. Playlist
You have an Avicii fixation. Your hipster friends only listen to the latest in Albanian folk metal. Who should be repenting and who should be rocking out? FM spoke to three professors to settle the score: John T. Hamilton, creator of “Frameworks: The Art of Listening,” Vijay Iyer, a jazz composer, pianist, and 2013 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and Hans Tutschku, an electro-acoustic composer.
Chatting over Cheddar: Inside Harvard's Wisconsin Club
I had originally planned to attend a Wisconsin Club meeting, but the group does not schedule organized gatherings, per se—more on that later. I needed another Wisconsin-related venue for the interview, and with an understanding of the state based mostly on “That 70’s Show,” only cheddar cheese and cow-tipping came to mind. Cheese was the more legal option, so I chose the deli for our venue.
Two Generations of Tutor Babies
Jack puts his frosted mini-wheats one by one into his bowl, an American flag bib protecting him from small splashes of milk. Across the table, his sister Kate, in an understated red rose headband, lets her eyes wander over the Kirkland House dining hall.