Our First Week!

Graphic design by Annabel (Edge, 2017).

Ice cream, anyone?
Ice cream, everyone.

Our first week with the 2016-2017 Edge community embraced the idea:  "ice cream, everyone."  To familiarize ourselves with the program and begin to develop our own processes, every member (students and advisors) researched ice cream three periods per day/five days per week.  We began with a field trip to Fudgy's (a must!) and ended with presentations.

Here are some highlights from the week:

A comparison of sugar's and cocaine's effects on the brain.
Image located at mic.com.

- Some people say that ice cream is addicting.  Did you know that we need sugar and shouldn't be afraid of it? (That said, on an MRI, a brain hyped up on sugar looks pretty similar to one on cocaine.)

- Did you know that chocolate ice cream is existentially disappointing (and stains)?

- Did you know that Ben and Jerry's has a graveyard for its "retired" flavors?

- Have you heard of a pretzel cone?

- Want to try sauerkraut-flavored ice cream? Lobster? Wasabi? Sriracha?

“Delicious unimaginable" = the ice cream that never melts!
Concocted by Ms. Charlap.

- Did you know that a majority of Edge members prefer cookie dough ice cream? flavor-order

- Is it true that someone who orders the same ice cream flavor is afraid to take chances?

- Did you know that you can make an ice cream cone that will never melt? 

- Think that Ben and Jerry's is an independent company? Wrong! It's part of Nestle!