My name is Adair Garrett. My major is Civil Engineering and I will hopefully graduate in May, 2021. I am in the online section of the course because of my irregular schedule this summer. I live in Reynoldstown, which is a 15-20 minute drive from Georgia Tech, but I work full time at the Georgia Tech Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain during the week. Later this summer, I will take a break from work to travel to England and Germany for a month, so I will try to be done with most of the assignments by the time I leave!
Previously, I have taken many different kinds of English classes. I attended a very liberal high school, so I had many options for expanding my literary and historical perspective. My high school, Paideia, offered college level classes called “seminars”, and I took an English seminar covering the role of comedy in literature. We read classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Catch 22, and even wrote essays about media like The Simpsons and Monty Python. I also took English 1101 at Georgia Tech my first semester with Jennifer Forsthoefel. It was an Honors Program class and our topic was feminism, so I enjoyed the books we read and many of our assignments. My favorite book from this class was either Hunger by Roxane Gay or Shrill by Lindy West. I would highly suggest either of these books to anyone who would like to deepen their understanding of the effects caused by beauty standards for women. In this class, I struggled with the electronic assignments, including the first video and the digital poster. Nevertheless, this semester I do not care to focus on improving my ability to adapt to different technologies. I would like to become a better writer this semester because I feel like my focus on STEM this past year has caused me to lose a lot of what I learned during my ongoing English curriculum in the past.
I have heard of Hamilton but I never listened to it. In general, I dislike musicals, but my best friends throughout high school loved this musical. I’ve been exposed to some of the songs, but I will try to be open minded moving forward with this course. I do like hip hop, and I predict that I’ll get into Hamilton after I watch it all the way through.
In my free time, I like to plant trees in bright yellow vests, go to local concerts, and play with my four-year-old sister.
