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  • Undergrad Adventures: 20th Century American Literature

    I graduated on Saturday (!) but I couldn’t forget to blog one last time about my undergrad adventures.  The last class to cover this quarter is my last upper-division English class, 20th Century American Literature. There were two main takeaways for me from this class. The class text selection was one of the best I’ve ever had. …

  • Undergrad Adventures: Student Leadership

    A special edition of Undergrad Adventures.  I’ve been really lucky that I’ve had the opportunity to hold several leadership positions in clubs and organizations during my college career. I held three positions (activities chair, treasurer and vice president) in Kellogg Honors College Club, and just ended a two-year run as the president of Cal Poly…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Reporting III

    To finish out my journalism minor, I decided to take Reporting III this quarter. This particular class is centered around how to be a beat reporter for a city, and what kinds of stories you should be looking for. You know that I’m into the arts and cultural criticism side of the business, so this was…

  • Undergrad Adventures: European Romanesque through Baroque Art

    I needed some extra units this quarter, so I decided to pick up an art history class. I definitely count art and art history as hobbies: I love going to museums, reading books about art and incorporating art into my daily life. This particular class covers Western art history from the European romanesque (early medieval)…

  • 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…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Anthropology via the Internet

      I’m one of those senior students who waited until her last year to finish her last lower division general education class, so here I am in ANT 112: Anthropology via the Internet. The name is kind of misleading, because I originally thought that it was going to be looking at the Internet through an…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Stress Management

    I’m down to my last two general education classes (scary, I know), and the stress management class I’m taking might be one of the most informative classes I’ve ever taken. Identifying the types of stress in your life can be a very powerful experience. There are two types of stress in your life: eustress (the good…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Fall 2014

    I’m finishing a final draft of my second capstone essay this week (more on that later) but my three academic classes for fall quarter are finally over! In all three years and a quarter of college, fall 2014 was the toughest, busiest and most stressful academic terms I’ve had. But despite all of the meltdowns and existential crises, the…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Structure of Language

    As an English major, I’m required to take two linguistics courses. I took language acquisition last winter, and now I’m taking structure of language. Because language is a system, a linguistics class is essentially a math class that uses words instead of numbers. In just a few short weeks, I’ve learned a lot about language and…