Dear Past Self, In your first blog post, you reflected on the situations that had brought you to WAGSFP. I’ll let you know what you’ll have come to learn by the very first days of August 2018, due to the efforts that you will make in the time that you spend here. I’ve had some…
Author: trinaray
The Testimonial (To My Song)
This experience with UROP through the Women and Gender Fellowship has been great. It’s supplied me with the know-how of conducting humanities-based research, which I have been doing in a half-realized way in my humanities classes all these years. Coming in as a freshman to Michigan, not even remotely did I consider UROP as a…
The Song (To My Testimonial)
A song that would describe my summer experience well is Abraham by Sufjan Stevens. Not because I played the song out every morning when I woke up or every evening when I went to bed during these past two months, but because I chose the song in one of my previous blogs at the start…
Opportunities and Challenges
My current goals are to succeed as a senior at Michigan, complete my writing samples for master’s programs in August, and prepare for the GRE’s in August as well. After the presentation I realized that I didn’t actively adopt a growth mindset until I was in college. As of now I try to remain…
Program Reflection
Coming to the close of these two months intensifies my gratefulness for being a part of, and contributing to, the commitments of this fellowship. I appreciate the seminars because they bring everyone together from our separate enclaves of work and offer chances for us to check the progress we are making against each other, whilst…
A Mid-Summer Reflection
The process has been in full swing. I anticipate, as a first in a while, that I will continue to develop significant divisions among the concerns in my life past the end of this two-month experience. The division that has recently been weighing on my mind is that between my intellectual (I think I can…
A Day in the Life: The Perks of Solitary Research
Hey researchers! A day in my life of working on historical research is, first and foremost, solitary. Preparing to do research is akin to wading into an echo-chamber that is made from my readings of monographs and articles. Whether working in my room, at Starbucks, or at the Shapiro Undergraduate Library, I am almost…
Reading Reflection: Writing Lucidly
Hey researchers! An article that I’ve recently read is “From Wet Nurse Directory to Milk Bank: The Delivery of Human Milk in Boston, 1909 – 1927”. This article covers how, from the 1850’s to the early 1900’s, the employment rates of wet nurses in the United States radically dropped until wet nurse employment became…
The Larger Impact of My Summer Self-Study
Hey researchers! So I have been hemming and hawing for a while about the practical impact that my research during this two-month experience will make. My hesitation comes in part from growing up thinking that research occurs with lab equipment and quantitative data or qualitative data, which normally, I guess, it does. However, within…
Hello WAGSFP, my name is Trina.
I really enjoy listening to music, and doing other things as well to take it easy. Currently my favorite songs are “Karma Police” by Radiohead and “Abraham” by Sufjan Stevens. These songs contain open-ended and speculative interests, with the former suiting men who ironically drone to empty skies and the latter adopting an ascetic and…