Karla's Brilliant Blog

After years and years of writing essays that mostly focus on analyzing articles or journals, the idea of doing one that will have to reflect my ideas and thoughts scares me. Even as I am writing this blog (giving my opinion) on what our next paper will be about gives me anxiety.  Although I love writing papers, with the pass of the years I have come to learn that I am better at writing objective essays. It is easier for me to just follow the rules when writing compared to having to come up with my own ideas or expressing my beliefs.  As professor Flewelling states in her  Blog #3 , most English teachers have taught us that “[We] can have an opinion, [they] want [us] to have an opinion,” but that our opinion should never be included in our papers. Also, since I am a psychology student, most of my papers are  APA format , which is super structured. We are always told that the less the better; in other words to not get very creative and just answer what we are being a...

Becoming first-time parents, probably the time that at one point most of us are going to have to fake it. According to Gee we all have Discourses, which he defines as  “an identity kit with a costume on how to act and talk by taking a certain role that people will recognize” (7) or as Professor Flewelling describes it in her blog,  “ it's everything. The way I sound, the way I walk, the way I dress, the values I hold, the way I interact with machines and people and data ”. One time that I had to mushfake was when I got a position as a mentor for students in the  Autism Spectrum . After a series of phone calls and emails, in which I was probably faking it too, I was selected by the Co-cordinator of the program to become a mentor.  There I was, my first day as a mentor, wearing dress pants, a blazer and short “office type” heels. I still did not know what to expect so I was trying my best. I had also read multiple times what the first session with my mentee wa...