See what alums, colleagues, and friends remember about Mark’s many wonderful years at Carleton.
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Sam Demas
25 May 2020Mark, my swimming buddy! As Noburu quipped, my “Poseidon”! One of the joys of swim club was lingering in the shower and locker room, chatting about all kinds of things…
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Clare Harris ’13 (韓可蕾)
25 May 2020On the first day of Chinese 101, I distinctly remember staring at Mai Laoshi in both fascination and horror as he repeated the same syllable using different tones while simultaneously…
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Becca Greenstein 戈贝贝
23 May 2020Congratulations on your retirement, Mai Laoshi! I appreciate how you pushed students to succeed while maintaining supportive classroom environments. Thank you for letting me take Chinese 347 (Newspapers) as a…
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Brigid Vance
23 May 2020麦老师! 古波说:父母给我生命,大夫给我健康,老师给我知识。 In September of 1996, I enrolled in Chinese 101, a course I chose because Asian Languages and Literature was the first table in Great Hall with no line…
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Nayely Martinez
23 May 2020I had Mai Laoshi as a beloved instructor for two years beginning freshman year in Fall 2012. There was never a class that was exactly the same as the one…
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Samuel McHugh 雷山木
23 May 2020Your two linguistics course, writing systems and historical linguistics, were the academic highlights of my time at Carleton. I still reach for some of the fundamental principles taught in those…
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Cory Vietor 魏可瑞 ’93
23 May 2020Congratulations on a much earned retirement, Mark! I began learning Chinese from Mark for two terms before going to China with Roy Grow on the Beijing Political Economy Seminar spring…
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Michelle Marinello
23 May 2020Professor Hansell is so cool and was such a dynamic professor of Chinese (among other things). I am really glad I studied what little Chinese I did at Carleton and…
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Alexander Auyeung
23 May 2020Mai Laoshi, I fondly remember taking Chinese 349 (Social Commentary) with you in Spring 2016. You demanded the best from your students, and you reminded me that learning Chinese would…
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Martha Zillig
23 May 2020Mai Laoshi is better than your laoshi! Thank you for all your hard work over the years, Mark! Although I will never forget my first daunting Chinese 101 class where…