Hello, everyone. My name is Keval Bollavaram. I am a Biomedical Engineering major, and I hope to graduate in May 2021. I am in the online section of this course; however, I am still on campus because I hope to pursue research opportunities while occasionally visiting my family. Beyond this course and research, I will also be taking physics II online as well. A little bit more about me, I played guitar for six years and violin for three years. Outside of academics, I am a huge fan of tennis and enjoy the riskiness of investing in the stock market.
I have not taken any other English courses at Georgia Tech, but—for the most part—my past experience with English classes have been positive. To date, my favorite English class was my AP Language and Composition class. We looked at a wide variety of material in this course and while some of the material in this course did not interest me, every text improved my reading comprehension skills. Moreover, my teacher was very enthusiastic and attentive to the needs of each student.
I am a decent visual and nonverbal communicator. However, the forms of communication I enjoy the most are electronic and visual. I believe I need to improve my written and oral forms of communication. I struggle most with these topics, but I hope to have many opportunities to improve and makes these modes of communications strengths rather than weaknesses.
I do not have many experiences with musicals albeit I have some prior knowledge of Hamilton. During this musical’s rise to prominence, I was taking AP U.S. History, and in class we made one or two loose connections to the musical while studying the time period. Other than this, I have few experiences with both musicals and hip-hop. Currently, I am apathetic about both of these subjects, but I am eager to learn/experience something new.