My first try with branding was in elementary school. My best friend and I, armed with plastic pizza slices and mini skillets, decided to open an imaginary restaurant. Before the spoons and spatulas were stolen from the cabinet, we ran to take printer paper, using markers to draw up a brochure. It became ‘BB&D’s’, a […]
Learning my first coding language
During my second to last semester in college, I am taking my first programming course: Python. This is what I can do so far, among other things: It’s been a process to understand the syntax of coding, but in Introduction to Computer Programming, we have moved through design, testing, implementing, testing and analysis of programs. […]
Questioning the American education system
One of Agnes Scott’s signature curriculum components is SUMMIT, preparing students to be a change agent in a global society. As first year students, leadership development consists of the Legacy experience, and enrolling in an LDR 101 course. Mine highlighted leadership through writing. This post is based on SUMMIT’s tenets and my course which honed […]
Serial 2 Meanwhile, in Tampa Response
In Serial 2’s fifth episode, narrator Sarah Koenig tries to make sense the entangled and frustrating process to try to bring Bowe back to the U.S., but the finished product seems to obscure more than it enlightens. The episode seems to show how impossible the situation was: Pakistan is friendly, the Haqqanis and Taliban are terrorists, Bowe is an enlisted solider.
Immigrants in America
First titled “Immigrants in America”, this post was a video exploration of the stories of Syrian Americans during the 20th century. In first history course during my first year, I wrote about migration from Syria across the Atlantic ocean, but not what life was like when they arrived. These videos help to contextualize that work, […]
The power of a liberal arts education
This essay is my proudest achievement of first year. In my Leadership 101 course, I learned the power of communicators to leave a meaningful legacy. I was in the midst of considering my second semester, in the first phase of reflecting on an intense growth experience. I was considering my future college life, galvanized by […]
A letter from my first semester
The following is a short ‘about me’ essay assignment for my Leadership 101 course, from my first semester at Agnes Scott. In The Role of Writers as Moral Leadership, we identified our leadership skills and ways to develop our moral role in society as writers and leaders. This essay encapsulates my outlook when I began college: […]
