Category: Academics
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Consider the Following
Consider the following: Thursday evening I spent two hours with two friends laughing and learning from the incredible Bill Nye. That’s right, the Bill Nye. I learned about sundials, mars-dials, model planes, deep-space exploration, bubbles in Antarctic ice, building bridges out of carbon, solar panels, the expansiveness of the Universe, how to get rich, and…
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Quotable
In which my professor demands a whole other level of analysis from the class
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Me and Mr. Bieber
“I’m tell ya one time” that this blog may not be what it appears.
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Spotted in Swem
As I was sitting at a computer in Swem Library I observed what I hope was the beginning of a beautiful friendship…On the computer next to me was a student with an admittedly cool graph on his screen. (I’ll call him Graph-Guy) As Graph-Guy worked on his computer and listened to whatever was coming through…
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Running From Rejection
Hello Again Blogosphere, I posted recently my opinion that the most challenging part about William and Mary is the endless opportunities. I blogged that one of the challenges is picking between the many different opportunities on campus-very true, but another challenge is that with so many incredible Tribe members vying for some of these positions,…
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Professor Tierney
I want to use this blog post to thank Prof. Tierney who taught the 9 am section of Introduction to International Politics my freshman year. Intro IR, as we called it, was the very first class I attended at William and Mary and is still one of my favorites. Within the first week of class…
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Dance Dance Dancing Machine
Did you know that Kelly Clarkson’s “Breakaway” is in waltz time? Or that you can lindy-hop to Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance”? I’ve learned this and a lot more in what has definitely become The Semester of Dance. I am currently enrolled in Ballroom Dance I, and I LOVE IT!!! I took ballroom dancing one high-school…
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Week One Complete
First week (ok, half-week) of classes complete! I’m in two Sociology courses (working on my minor), two Women’s Studies classes (finishing up my major), and Ballroom Dance (fulfills the Creative/Performing Arts GER and is just cool!). I’ve only gone to most classes once, and I’m already excited about what I’m learning and surprised by the…
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Gotcha
Today, at the beginning of Psychology class, my professor said: “Before we start, I have a few questions to ask:” “How many of you were born in Virginia?” Most of us raised our hands. “How many of you were born in the USA?” Almost all of us raised our hands. “One last question—why are you…
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Harry Potter is My Role-model and Other More Embarrassing Confessions
So in college we read a lot. Seriously, I once tried to calculate how many total pages I’ve read thus far, and it was just too massive. Most of us came to college as readers and most of the time I find my class readings to be pretty interesting, but it’s never the same is…
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TWAMPY Moment of the Day
In case you don’t know, TWAMP stands for Typical William and Mary Person: that lovable mix of nerdy awkward highly motivated-ness that makes us members of the Tribe. Not every moment is a TWAMP moment, but lots of them are. Today, I got to class early and shared with my Sociology buddies that classes were…
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Let’s See How Far We’ve Come
It’s that busy time in spring again when I’m trying to balance the work of this semester while making plans for the summer and next year. Even with more than a month left, I’ve started to reflect on sophomore year, and it’s crazy to think how much has changed. This time last year I was…
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Let’s Watch a Disney Channel Movie
Last semester I took “The Global Color Line,” a history class comparing race realities in South Africa and the United States and finding connections between the black freedom struggles in both nations. Our final paper had to tie together South Africa and the United States but otherwise was ours to create. As I am a…