Take the answer you got from Brianna to the question you were assigned during the second class meeting. Write a sentence with that answer that follows coherently from what your classmates (and I) have added
Question 1: Where did you grow up, and what’s special about it? Brianna Blackman, 23, grew up all over the place, but most prominently in Killeen, Texas, and Fayetteville, Georgia. Brianna was a military “brat” (of course she’s not a brat, though!), her father making a career in the Army and her mother serving in the Air Force. Brianna remembers Killeen, Texas most fondly because she met many of her best friends there. Her family relocated to Fayetteville, Georgia upon her dad’s retirement from the Army, and she lived there for 10 years. Due to the transient nature of her living arrangements, Brianna said she was never able to form deep connections with others. As a result, she wants to stay in one place as an adult, somewhere on the west coast because she hasn’t lived there yet.
Q #2 Why did you decide to attend UGA?
Brianna was drawn to UGA for a number of reasons: the versatility of majors, the excellent academic reputation, in-state tuition, an active social and Greek life, and the football team (she’s not a huge football fan, but couldn’t image college life without it.)
After graduating in May, Brianna will miss her involvement with Impact, a UGA organization for social justice.
5. Brianna’s favorite and best written work to date is an article that ran in UGAzine about an Athfest half-marathon runner and his reasons for running, as well as his method of preparing for races. She is especially proud of this piece because she saw it through to the end and it was published.
6. What is your favorite book and why? Brianna’s favorite book is The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. As one of the first books she read all the way through in high school, Brianna loves this novel because of her ability to resonate with the main character.
3. What were your career goals when you started and how have they changed since? When she began UGA, Brianna was hoping to pursue accounting. “I can do that, I like math… [I can be] rich,” she says, laughing. But she said she hated it and switched her major “about eight times, to be honest,” she says. She says she started by imagining what was going to be the best option for her financially, whereas now, she is looking at what career will make her the most happy. After soul-searching, Brianna realized that she wants to go into student affairs and college life because being apart of organizations has become a very big part of who she is. “It went from business to more touchy-feely stuff.”
13. After graduating in May, Brianna will miss being involved with Impact, a UGA organization for social justice.
J.K. Rowling is Brianna’s favorite author. She likes her so much because of the impact she’s had on other people’s lives. People have gone through so much through her writings and the connectivity there is around the series is amazing. At the end of the day there are negative houses but you can also bring out the positives in it, makes Brianna respect what she’s done.
14. Brianna prefers to use a recorder while interviewing. She finds that her notes are often hard to decipher after the fact, as people tend to “talk faster than [she] can write,” so she prefers to be able to listen to the audio again later if she needs to.
8. “I see myself in 5 years, probably in a student affairs position in a liberal arts college,” Brianna Blackman said. “I like the idea of going out west somewhere.” Blackman has been looking at different liberal arts colleges for a master’s degree. A college in Illinois caught her eye, and she plans on staying in the area and writing. She hopes that durign that time, one of her screenplays might be picked up for a movie.
7. What’s the most meaningful advice you’ve ever gotten?
The most meaningful advice Brianna has ever gotten is “once you know someone’s story, you can’t help loving them. ” This phrase helps her to have a deep understanding of other’s story and makes her appreciate people more. “Even I think someone is terrible, they may have other parts of personalities that I might like. There may be reasons why they are acting this way,” she said, “maybe it’s because they’ve been hurt before. ” She learned this phrase at an orientation organized by the Center for Leadership and Service in UGA.
12. The worst class Brianna Blackman encountered was a required Marine Science course she was initially eager to take, but soon the class took a turn for the worst. The course largely focused on water and mapping its flow around the world. Blackman claims she could never stay awake in the class and was only fully conscious during one of the projects.