The Good, Elementary School:

My first few years of school were, as far as I remember, filled with curiosity and encouragement to explore and observe things I did not yet understand. My parents, during the summer especially, gave me and my younger sister extra assignments, reading lists and projects like spelling lists and sets of math and logic problems, model building, arts and crafts, nature hikes, and field trips to the Children's Museum of Boston, the Boston Aquarium, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Worcester Art Museum, Old Sturbridge Village, and more.

My experience working with Professor Grobstein, Wil Franklin and my two Bryn Mawr colleagues, Kate Gould and Jenna Pfeiffer, has been nothing short of unique and satisfying.  It's a delightfully strange feeling to be sitting a mere floor above where my biology class met three times a week last semester; it's even stranger that I'm sitting here learning at my own pace, deciding what I find interesting and making connections between topics that I've never thought about before.

(work in progress) 

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Virtual Reality and Dissociative Personalities

This final examination of dissociation will be looking at the projection of the self in daydreams and other fictional states and will suggest the incorporation of a fluid scale of dissociation…

The article that inspired this investigation is written by a woman in the forefront of the examination of the idea of “plural selves” and dissociation, especially in relation to technology and virtual reality. In the article “Who Am We?” professor and clinical psychologist Sherry Turkle writes about herself and her research in the 3rd person, a quirky self-reflexive approach that goes hand-in-hand with the concept of self-pluralism:

Below is an article I wrote for my college newspaper, The Bi-College News, about religion/spirituality and its impact on professors in a liberal arts college environment.  The article was part of a larger pullout section on religion and spirituality in general on Bryn Mawr and Haverford College's campuses. I cannot link to the article because the newspaper's website is being renovated, so I will copy and paste it from a word document. This is the pre-editing version, so it has changed slightly, but the vast majority of it is the same.

“Outside the Classroom: A Look at Professors and Religion”

This page is my own random thought page dedicated to...you guessed it, random thoughts!

I realized that after starting this internship I have caught myself thinking in new perspectives about an array of subjects.

This blog is for all of my (and other's) random thoughts!