'Empathy Extended Release' is a piece created under the guidance of my professors Arjun Shankar and Vivyan Adair focusing on the impact of external motivations on the curiosity and mental health of college students.  Over the past semester, I conducted a series of long-form, open ended interviews and came to understand that Hamilton students often experience an insecure uncertainty that prevents learning through an Empathic Curiosity. I explain how being limited to an Exploitative Curiosity is destructive to genuine learning and mental wellness. In the end, I call for qualitative grading to be considered more seriously in Hamilton's pedagogical practice as part of a nation-wide cultural shift. 

Clips of Bill Deresiewicz' Fox News interview throughout
http://www.billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep


_Music_
@conradhsiang x @ehealy
Build: https://soundcloud.com/ehealy/build-1 
$150 / roll widdit: https://soundcloud.com/ehealy/150-roll-widdit

@kanyewest
School Spirit (Skit 2) 

Carissima Performed by Hamilton College Choir 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9PsJjR8N9s

@tylerthecreatorofficial
What The Fuck Right Now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCd6SQ67k-Y

Chris Orrick @mellomusicgroup
Kids: https://soundcloud.com/mellomusicgroup/red-pill-kids-prod
10 Year Party: https://soundcloud.com/mellomusicgroup/red-pill-ten-year-party-prod-red-pill

@thepalmersquares
Painting Pictures: https://soundcloud.com/thepalmersquares/painting-pictures-prod-by-zobian

@open-mike-eagle
Dark Comedy Late Show: https://soundcloud.com/open-mike-eagle/dark-comedy-late-show


_Works Referenced_
Center for Collegiate Mental Health. (2011, March). 2010 annual report (Publication No. STA 11-000). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University. 

Center for Collegiate Mental Health. (2016, January). 2015 annual report (Publication No. STA 15–108). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

Gaskin, J. C. A., editor. “Of the Passions of the Mind.” The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, by Thomas Hobbes, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Mead, Gavin. “Dear men, it’s time to speak out on mental health.” The Spectator [Clinton, NY], 7 December 2017. https://spec.hamilton.edu/dear-men-its-time-to-speak-out-on-mental-health-bbd4387623a9

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