My name is Colleen Moroney, and I am a senior here at SIUE with a double major in Psychology and English. With this, I am aiming to go to graduate school for either School Psychology or Environmental Psychology (I have yet to decide). In the Fall of 2017, I actually transferred here from Missouri State University, where I completed my first two years. I decided to come to SIUE because it is closer to home (St. Louis), as I was feeling extremely homesick. That is odd for me to say, as I originally chose a college far from home to get away. Besides getting to see my family more, another benefit of being closer to home is I can go home to work my front desk job at an assisted living facility every weekend. The drawback, however, is that, because of transferring, I will be graduating in December of this year instead of May. Outside of academics, I thoroughly enjoy writing, reading for leisure, hiking, and, of course, relaxing.<\/p>\n
I chose to take this class for a simple reason \u2013 it looked different than your typical English course. It\u2019s typical of an English course to read a novel and analyze every detail of it, but to look at the technological advances made throughout history that are discussed in such novels and to relate that to real life is truly different and intriguing to me. Moreover, having the opportunity to experiment with a range of technologies in an English course simply sounded fun. Although I am young, I am not an expert in technology as most older adults would assume. Sure, I am well-rounded with cell phone, laptop, and Kindle use as well as other modern, everyday advancements, but I by no means know how to operate or create complex pieces of technology. My fianc\u00e9 helps me with that, though, as we are currently working on building a desktop for myself. With that said, I think my biggest fear\/anxiety with this class is simply the different setup. I am used to a lot of structure, as I\u2019m sure every student is, and the thought of constant trial-and-error with new digital tools is certainly intimidating. I am open to anything, though, and am genuinely looking forward to what this class has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My name is Colleen Moroney, and I am a senior here at SIUE with a double major in Psychology and English. With this, I am aiming to go to graduate school for either School Psychology or Environmental Psychology (I have yet to decide). In the Fall of 2017, I actually transferred here from Missouri State University, where I completed my first two years. I decided to come to SIUE because it is closer to home (St. Louis), as I was feeling extremely homesick. That is odd for me to say, as I originally chose a college far from home to get away. Besides getting to see my family more, another benefit of being closer to home is I can go home to work my front desk job at an assisted living facility every weekend. The drawback, however, is that, because of transferring, I will be graduating in December of this year instead of May. Outside of academics, I thoroughly enjoy writing, reading for leisure, hiking, and, of course, relaxing. I chose to take this class for a simple reason \u2013 it looked different than your typical English course. It\u2019s typical of an English course to read a novel and analyze every detail of it, but to look at the technological advances made throughout history that are discussed in such novels and to relate that to real life is truly different and intriguing to me. Moreover, having the opportunity to experiment with a range of technologies in an English course simply sounded fun. Although I am young, I am not an expert in technology as most older adults would assume. Sure, I am well-rounded with cell phone, laptop, and Kindle use as well as other modern, everyday advancements, but I by no means know how to operate or create complex pieces of technology. My fianc\u00e9 helps me with that, though, as we are currently working on building a desktop for myself. With that said, I think my biggest fear\/anxiety with this class is simply the different setup. I am used to a lot of structure, as I\u2019m sure every student is, and the thought of constant trial-and-error with new digital tools is certainly intimidating. I am open to anything, though, and am genuinely looking forward to what this class has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}