Honestly, I don’t really like writing either. That’s why I found myself reading my classmate Anthony’s blog post called “The Importance of Writing,” because I struggle to come up with ideas to write about, regardless of my interest in the topic. No matter if it’s the writing projects for this…

I would say that I am a fairly objective, yet creative person, which initially seems like an oxymoron. After all, objectivity is centered around representing facts in an impartial way, while creativity tends to relate more to the expression of ambiguous ideas. I believe that my unique intellectual identity revolves…

During my WP2, I talked about the different forms of media that have especially impacted my intellectual identity, which included both watching gaming videos online and playing video games myself. Ironically, I am currently watching an Among Us stream on my tablet as I write this post, which exemplifies how…

As I write WP3, I have noticed that I struggle to recognize and express the ideas that make up my intellectual identity, especially with a vague prompt like this. I wanted to write a Medium post in order to talk about the difficulties I have had so far with this…

As a fan of stand-up comedy, I was excited to listen to an album by Tig Notaro, who I hadn’t listened to before. Throughout her album LIVE, Notaro explores the relationship between tragedy and comedy, as she talks about the terrible things that had happened to her over the previous…

We live in a world that is dominated by various forms of media: the constant advertising we see around us, our evolving means of communication (Zoom, for example), and the different ways of interacting with popular culture. We have endless media outlets that we are able to engage with every…

During high school, I experienced many different styles of teaching: boring, completely lecture-based chemistry classes to fully discussion-centered English classes, and everything in between. So, as I read Chapter 2 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Chapter 3 of Literacy of Promise, I was able to draw connections from my…

I think that we can all agree that learning from home over these past few months hasn’t been ideal. I find it so much harder to engage in classes over Zoom, no matter how interesting the topic is to me. The unrelenting temptation to check my phone every few minutes…

The second week of March was a bizarre, painful week. The NBA was postponed on Monday, March Madness was canceled on Tuesday, and my school was shut down on Wednesday. Little did I know how long I would have to wait before being able to watch live sports on TV…