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Poetry, out loud.
Jan. 25, 2011—Last Thursday, I was able to attend Jericho Brown’s reading at the Black Cultural Center here on Vanderbilt campus. The Vanderbilt Creative Writing program hosts Gertrude & Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series where different poetry and fiction authors come read and do a Q&A for those who attend the reading. The awesome thing about these...
An Inside Look at McGugin Magic
Nov. 16, 2010—All freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences are required to take a freshman writing seminar. I chose to take an American Studies Class called Food for Thought. We study food in American culture while honing our writing skills.
Registration!
Nov. 10, 2010—Today, I woke up at 5:45 am because freshman registration for spring classes opened at 6 am. The morning was total chaos and all of my classes seemed to be full. So, when I logged out of registration at 6:15 am, I was only enrolled in 5 credit hours, which is not nearly enough to...
Professors…They’re Real People Too
Nov. 1, 2010—This week for Vanderbilt Visions, the freshman orientation program, my group went to an event called Talking Heads at Dean Wcislo’s House. The ‘talking heads’ were three of the Faculty Heads of Houses of the Commons. This installment of the Talking Heads series featured Chalene Helmuth, of Sutherland House, and Tony Brown and Chase Lesane-Brown,...
Family Weekend
Oct. 12, 2010—This weekend, Vanderbilt celebrated official ‘Family Weekend,’ so my parents and grandparents made the trip and spent the weekend with me.
Three Cups of Tea Author Visits VU
Oct. 12, 2010—This past Wednesday, Greg Mortenson, author of New York Times Bestsellers Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, visited the Vanderbilt campus and held a question and answer session for the class of 2014 and their VUceptors. Over the summer, all freshman received a copy of Three Cups of Tea and were asked to...
Journaling the Experience
Oct. 5, 2010—Hey everybody out there! I’ve always wanted to have a journal I could look back on and do all the corny things you see in the movies—laugh at the funny memories, shed a few tears over the tough times, but mostly just remember. Remember my initial impressions of friends; remember running through the V at...
Finals….
Dec. 3, 2009—It’s that time of the year again: finals. Today marked my last exam before going into “finals mode.” During this mode, I become a social hermit. Unless you’re studying with other people (and hopefully, you’re really studying and not slacking off – although that does tend to happen sometimes), most of your friends don’t see...