• Capstone Adventures: Convocation

    You guys, I graduated from the Kellogg Honors College on Friday! My capstone project is finished! Well, that’s not entirely true. I need to send one last essay out to a publication, but I’ll tell you about that later. Tonight I wanted to talk about the experience I’ve been working towards for an entire year.…

  • Undergrad Adventures: ENG 451 Presentation

    Last week, I got an email from my capstone mentor asking me if I wanted to give a presentation on my last capstone paper in his Modernism & Postmodernism class. So I took part of the afternoon off of work and went and gave what ended up being a much bigger presentation/discussion. Despite none of this being for class…

  • Capstone Adventures: The Fault in Our Stars Fanfiction

    Way back in March when I had decided on what my honors college capstone was going to be about, I knew that in talking about postmodern popular culture I had to talk about a contemporary popular book. This was right around the time when the The Fault in Our Stars movie was coming out, and…

  • Capstone Adventures: Research Conferences

    Over the weekend, I crossed an item off of the undergrad adventures bucket list: presenting at a research conference. I participated in the Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research at Cal State Fullerton at the suggestion of my capstone advisor, and I’m really glad I did. I gave a 15-minute presentation on my research on Yeezus to…

  • Capstone Adventures: Finishing Kanye

    Last night, I turned in a final draft of an article about Kanye West for Part I of my honors capstone project. I spent all summer working on it, and although I’m mostly happy with it and the experience I had writing it, I’m glad that it’s over. My first idea for my capstone project was…