Monthly Archives: April 2016

My classmate Alex recently wrote a blog post about how school can kill one’s ability to be creative.  This for me, is incredibly important.  I am a huge proponent of the arts, both in and out of school.  I have sung, acted, danced, and done musical theater basically since I was born, and I know just how … Continue reading »

Sources and I have an interesting relationship.  I’m still not really sure how I feel about all the work that I put into finding them, but they definitely do help me on my papers.  For class, we had to read the article, Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively, by Margaret Kantz that was all about sources.  As … Continue reading »

Whenever I hear the word “beam”, I always think of Star Trek.  All it would take was one person to utter the phrase, “Beam me up, Scotty”, and then they would be off to wherever they wanted to go to! In this context, “beam” does not mean that I will be whisked away to another … Continue reading »