I am an English and Philosophy double major and I have been
working at the Institute for Writing Studies for almost three
years, a pleasure that will be cut short soon, as I will graduate
in May 2011. My areas of specialization are procrastination (which
allows me to connect with great ease to most students) and
sophistry in all matters semantic, grammatical, and epistemological
(which serves to push students to examine their own writing more
critically, even though their tender feelings towards me may suffer
in the process). Besides a great affection for semicolons and
parentheses, I love (to semi-pathological excess, I admit) dogs,
bicycle tours, and spontaneous unreasonableness. At the Writing
Center, I continue to learn that tutoring is as challenging to the
consultant as it is to the student. To be able to appreciate and
partake in others’ thought and writing processes, I am required not
only to try to understand alien material, but to identify with, or
at least give liberty to, other modes of reasoning and creating.
This is, I believe, at the core of what I want to do: exploring
foreign territory in a non-imperialist way.