As I reflect back on my experiences within WAGSFP, the people surrounding me have definitely made this time productive, engaging, and enjoyable in nature. I’ve found the relationship that I’ve had with other fellows to be the most surprising, spontaneous, and endearing part of this summer. Two occasions of our time together come to the…
Category: Blog Posts
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– This is not an essay or scientific paper! Use first person, contractions- your own personal voice. While you want to use proper spelling and grammar, don’t feel like you need to confine yourself to the standard essay format you’re used to in other classes.
– Use links. If you reference an interesting magazine article, link it in your blog. If you want to show a relevant youtube clip, go ahead and include it in your post. http://writetodone.com/new-style-blog-writing/
– Use pictures when relevant. They make your post more visually appealing and interesting to read.
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– Please be respectful in your posts and comments. Do not use any offensive or derogatory language.
– While there is no word count for written blog posts, please make sure your posts are insightful and contain all the necessary information. For those of you who aren’t sure where to start, 250-500 words is a good range to follow.
– The target audience is you prior to taking this course
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A Daily Schedule
Usually my daily routine of research commenced with me waking up at around 9 a.m. and starting my morning necessities of brushing, showering, and breakfasting. I keep my breakfast simple, often only having a fruit and a cereal bar. Then, at around like 10:30 I begin my research activities. Sometimes I change location from my…
Fun, Light Summer Reading
Although the reading material that I’ve chosen to discuss in this blog is not a peer-reviewed research article, it’s still a novel that I found to be enjoyable and relatable to certain educational goals of WAGSFP. Recently, I’ve read My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan, which is a fictional romance novel that follows the life…
The Impact of Lobbying in the United States
My research project is concerned with lobbying patterns in the United States from the Progressive Era to the present. It seeks to understand lobbying within state legislatures, specifically, and how lobbying networks took shape. My research mentor, a graduate student within the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, travels…
Blog Post 9B: Testimonial
This fellowship has been such a blessing. I’ve been afforded new opportunities as a result of it, and just being a part of this cohort has been such a joy. I’m grateful for all the people who have been unconditionally in our corners throughout these 10 weeks, rooting for us at every pass. The best part…
Blog Post 9A: Song
[su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl742pn7bnw”] Lyrics I know that it seems sometimes, that no matter what you do No matter how hard you work, striving to make things better in your life For some reason, you’re not getting nowhere But I want you to turn to the one next to you And tell him You tried your…
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…
Blog 9: My song! (Part 1)
MUY CHINGONAS! Being here, I’ve had a lot of time listening to music and when I came across this music video, I LOVED IT! Because Gloria Trevi and Alejandra Guzmán are extremely empowering and mujeres chingonas who summarize in the video my experience here. Being surrounded by such amazing, empowering, inspiring, and intelligent human beings in my…
Blog 8: Opportunities & Challenges
Ever since the Growth Mindset presentation by Joe Salvatore, I had time to reflect about how I need to give myself more credit for the work that I do. I am harsh towards myself because whenever I am given a task, the outcomes need to come out perfect. I am a perfectionist and I cannot…