I used to loathe The Great Gatsby. I first read it my junior year of high school, and all I can remember thinking was, “wow, this is the worst love story I have ever read.” Consequently, when I found out that it was one of the assigned texts for my American Gangster class, I was annoyed. […]
I was sitting in my first class of the 2018 semester, Intro to Film and Media Studies, when my professor said something that made me start to wonder. He was talking about the effect of cinema on the human psyche, and he basically said this: film is one of the most interesting media forms we […]
My name is Helena Hind, and I’ll be honest: the written word is not my preferred medium. While I’ve written countless research papers and essays during my time as a student, I’ve always seen writing as an obligation. Writing has never been something I’ve used to express my innermost thoughts and viewpoints (except in my […]