3 posts tagged “me”
How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics!
Who isn't cute when they are a kid?? I'm not entirely sure, but I think this is from my 3rd birthday. I like my Smurfette crown, like, a lot.
When did you first realize that you were an English major? Was it a positive or negative experience?
Question submitted by George.
My freshman year of college I was taking a sophomore-level required
English class and during a class discussion one day I guess I said
something brilliant and my
professor pulled me aside and asked me what I was majoring in. I told
him I was doing business administration and he looked at me quizzically
like it should have been obvious what I was supposed to be doing
instead. He suggested I think seriously about switching to English, but
I kind of brushed him off by grumbling something about not being able
to make money with that major.
Anyway, for one of the assignments in that class, we had to read
Frankenstein and write a paper on it. I was apathetic to the assignment
since I wasn't all that thrilled about reading the book about the
bolt-headed monster. Much to my surprise, when it came down to
writing the essay on the book, I became completely engrossed in it. I
kept finding connections and symbols and every use of literary device I
had ever learned about and I was tagging them all with post-it notes
and scribbling in the margins of my book. It became a sick obsession
and I worked on my Frankenstein essay meticulously. I mean, I'm sure if
I went back today and read the essay I would realize how horribly
written and poorly thought-out it was, but it was my first
intrinsically motivated experience with literature and writing. To this
day, Frankenstein is still my favorite novel of all time and I
constantly compare its themes to other media.
Well, after I finished the essay it hit me that I loved to read and
write way too much to not do English as my major. I'm kind of
surprised I didn't realize it sooner because I've always loved to read
and write and I always did the best in my English classes more so than
any other class I was ever in. I even loved Shakespeare from the moment
we read those first lines of the fight scene between the Monagues and
Capulets when I was 14-years-old. I guess it just took a nudge from a
discerning professor to point me in the right direction. I graduated
with my English degree last year, I've got a job where I am applying my
skills, and I believe that it was the most perfect path for me to
choose all along, even if I didn't always know it.
I should mention that today is my 5th wedding anniversary. Here's an old camera photo of a photo that I had on my wall. :) We're going out for Italian food and then watching Pirates of the Carribean to celebrate. Are we old or what? Heh.
