Helen FieldsScience Writer

I took this picture mostly because I can’t remember the last time I saw someone use an overhead projector:

It’s my German teacher going over the definite and indefinite articles and adjective endings for what must be about the 10 millionth time in her career. It’s certainly about the 10 millionth time I’ve learned them.

The woman in the middle of the picture is a grad student from Berkeley. There’s another grad student from Stanford, a woman from India, two women and one man from Spain, a guy from France, three Russians, and a small cast of rotating characters – today we had a Venezuelan and a guy who may have been French, and late last week there was a Greek woman.