Author Archives: hdougan

One more thing I learned in my archive adventure in the Santa Clara Library is that Santa Clara used to be a single gendered school. It used to be only men. Now this is fairly common for universities to start … Continue reading →

Our school’s drama club is putting on a play called the Vagina Monologues. It’s a play about Sex, Sexuality and Rape. You can read a summary of the original play here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagina_Monologues The thing is, the school isn’t allowing the students … Continue reading →

Woohoo! Another interesting and insightful post about research! Probably not what you’re thinking, but research is everywhere and I believe it to be central to most things in the world. And almost all kinds of research should be regarded as … Continue reading →

On my classes famous trip to our library archives on campus, I began to think about what purpose libraries will serve in the future. Everything is becoming digitized. You can find just about any book or article or fact or … Continue reading →

In class, we read an important article talking about the BEAM method which I explained earlier. After initially reading the article, I initially didn’t really think it was widely applicable… until we read an article in one of my Environmental … Continue reading →

One of the main themes in the course that assigned this blog is education. Specifically, higher education and how it shapes everything in our world. I’m a lifeguard at the SCU pool. Kinda like this dude: It’s not as glamorous … Continue reading →

In class recently, for a project on archival research, I scrolled through old editions of the Santa Clara Newspaper I learned some exciting stuff about my topic while in the archives, and in addition, stumbled across some advertisements that grabbed … Continue reading →

Research research and you guessed it! More research. The topic of my blog posts may make me out to be some master of research, but in reality I’m flying by the seat of my pants. I’m no expert on research … Continue reading →

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I want to talk about the cost of a college education. Specifically, how taking a writing class on education has made me view my own educational experience differently. I know, I know, … Continue reading →

My research process is typically somewhat of a mess, but, to be fair, it used to be much worse… I used to find and ultimately choose certain quotes or examples that were short and sounded like they summed up the … Continue reading →