I had the privilege of spending the summer of 2019 at the Boston Athenaeum as a Boston University PhD Intern. The internship is intended to furnish BU PhD candidates with a taste of professional life outside the academy. Every morning, as I ascended historic Beacon Hill towards the Athenaeum’s imposingly classical, colonnaded building, I counted…
Being an English major, I’ve always thought that even if I can’t always say what I mean, I can write it. But what happens when you communicate with someone who communicates differently? In the summer of 2017, I worked at a Jewish Community Center camp with ten-year-old kids. I applied to the job on a whim…
English Major in a Theatre Camp The first day of my out-of-the blue summer job as camp manager at the McLaren Park Session of SF Shakespeare Festival Camp, I sat in 2 hours of traffic. Getting over the Bay Bridge is hard at the best of times, but during rush hour it was a nightmare…
