Since I'm about to graduate:

Paper topics I've written about: (Freshman-Sophomore)

• Faith & Integration
• An Argument Against Christianity
• God & Evil
• The Facts of a Resurrection
• Ethics and Speech
• Personality & Temperament Styles
• The Importance of Sunscreen
• A Critical Analysis of Feminism & Rhetoric
• Social Norm Violations
• A Commentary on “Another Late Night at the Office”
• Attachment Styles and Neuroticism
• A Commentary on “One Voice, One Vote: The Abandonment of the Electoral College”
• Christianity and Politics
• Social Judgment Theory and the Unrealistic Perfection the Media Asserts
• Relational Dialectics and It’s Effect upon Interpersonal Relationships
• Reality v. Perfection
• Social Judgment Theory and It’s Effect upon Belief Systems
• Attachment Style and Theory as Present In My Life
• A Day Of Noncomformity
• An Analysis of Women in the Workplace
• A Critical Analysis of the Similarities and Differences of Men and Women’s Communication as Presented in Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand
• A Critical Analysis of Women’s Development and Theory As Presented in Gilligan’s In a Different Voice
• The Effects of the Great Depression on Poverty in the North and South
• On Dante's Inferno
• On Aristotle
• Symbolic Interactionism and the looking-glass self: How one’s own outlook reflects in interpersonal relationships

(Junior-Senior)

• The Effects of Emotion on the Ability to Recall Words
• An Analysis of Singing and Its Effect Upon Learning Ability
• Music and Mass Media: How File-Sharing and the Internet Has Changed the Music Business
• An Analysis of Risky Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults
• An Analysis of the Physiological, Psychological and Acquired Needs Associated with Eating
• Time Management And Procrastination In College Students: A Research Proposal
• V For Vendetta: An analysis of conflict and power
• (500) Days of Summer: Using narrative criticism as a means of rhetorical analysis
• The Rhetorial Situation: Using Bitzer as means of conducting an analysis
• Global warming: How climate change affects food supply
• Cereal Nutrition and Health According to the FDA
• If All The Sky Were Paper: A critique
• Zoo Story: An observation of animals at play
• Scene analysis: Reasons to be pretty
• Scene analysis: The Shape of Things
• Godspell: A critique
• No Exit: Monologue Breakdown
• Manic Depression: An analysis of medication and adherence
• Healthier without wheat: A Look at Celiac Disease
• Substance abuse and music preference
• The Great Debators: An analysis of race, class, and gender
• Museum of Tolerance: A Reflection
• An Exercise on Diversity
• Journal Articles 1-10 (Intercultural Comm)
• An analysis of amphetamine usage among individuals diagnosed with ADHD
• Dove: The campaign for real beauty
• Age of propaganda: A brief look at persuasion in America
• Changing your Course: A persuasive analysis of conversation skills
• David Foster Wallace's This Is Water: A Speech Analysis

Things I erroneously thought about it:

• That transferring wasn't a big deal

o Wrong. The differences in pre-reqs and majors/minors meant that my 4-yr. plan got put on hold

• That people would be more mature, open-minded and diverse.

o Mostly wrong. For the most part, Chapman is full of sorority girls, frat boys, and the film students.

• That I would meet like minds and make life-lasting friends.

o Wrong. I have yet to make a good, close, lasting friend my entire college career.

• That these would be the best years of my life.

o Partially wrong.

• That my professors would be laid-back and treat us students more as their intellectual peers rather than a bunch of dumb kids.

o Wrong. Again, there was an exception here and there but for the most part my professors were up-tight, pompous academicians that knew nothing of the real world outside of thick textbooks. st minute and I still easily passed all my classes.

• That I wouldn't have as many forced presentations and participatory assignments.

o Wrong. Even in college, professors haven't quite realized that some people are naturally shy and quiet and you are not going to "bring them out of their shell" at age 22.

Classes I've taken:

• Intro to Pyschology
• Foundations of a Christian Life
• Intro to Sociology
• Intro to Speech and Communication
• Intercultural Communication
• New Testament Survey
• Comm 212
• Communication Theory
• Gender Communication
• Developmental Psychology
• Social Psycholoy
• Researched Writing
• The History of Philosophy
• Abnormal Psychology
• Advanced Interpersonal Communication
• Nonverbal Communication
• Christianity and Artistic Culture
• World Civilization 2
• Cognitive Psychology
• Critical Thinking
• Italian 101, 102
• Sensation & Perception
• Motivation & Emotion
• Mass Communication
• Conflict & Negotiation
• Communication Research II
• Rhetorical Communication
• Propaganda & Public Opinion
• Organizational Communication
• Physiological Psychology
• Theories of Persuasion
• Health Psychology
• Senior Seminar
• Intro to Theatre for Non-Majors
• Women's Chorus
• Nutrition

Schools attended:

• Vanguard University
• University of Arizona
• Chapman University
• Graduate school in the future, perhaps.

Where I lived during it all:

• In a dorm room
• In an on-campus apartment
• In a house
• In an apartment