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MY RESEARCH IDENTITY: A REFLECTION

 I find my personal identity as a researcher to be defined by my human-centric approach. Personally, I find most of my own research somewhat incomplete without a return to form by using surveys and personal interviews to see how it relates to the everyday person. After all, I think that's what research is all about anyways. What's the point of doing it if it affects nobody?      In most of my research projects, I take on the role of not just a scholar, but also a reporter. When my work focuses on humans, and thus human problems, I find it awfully impersonal to only take into account what other scholars before me have said about the problems people face. That is why I find it to be much more useful to collect the data myself. I also find the process of collecting info itself to be very enjoyable, as I love talking to people and getting to know them better. Through facilitated discussion I think I can get a much broader view of who it is that I want to learn about. ...
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MY MUSIC TASTE: A MEMOIR

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      I love music. That's definitely not an overstatement. Music is one of my favorite parts of being alive. I love to listen to all kinds of music, and my only problem with it is finding enough new songs to satisfy my ever-expanding tastes. My Spotify library grows every day, with new playlists constantly popping in to encompass more new genres that I discover a fondness for. Music is great, to be honest.      Lately, I have been delving much deeper into the iceberg that is music. I felt myself getting tired of the repetition of the same songs, the same artists, even the same genres. This filled me with the desire to try and test out new genres of music that I had never even considered. I had previously felt a need to conform to the music taste vehemently, an urge started by my unfathomably miserable music taste when I was in Middle School. I had gone to each end of the spectrum, from over to under-conforming with my peers and now that I have grown more, ...
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MY LOVE FOR WIKIPEDIA: A SHORT ESSAY

        For all my life, I have been captivated by the world's interconnectedness. The idea that every concept is, in some way inextricably connected to another by only following a few common threads is utterly fascinating, and the seemingly impossibly deep breadth of knowledge that some people seem to possess about some topics. One of the earliest examples that comes to mind is a project I did in fifth grade on Chornobyl. I would spend hours reading about Chernobyl and the history of the event, and with each excursion into a book I would find myself diving ever deeper into the vast recesses of knowledge that these books held for me. I spent days panning through various Wikipedia articles that were just barely within my understanding enough to finish my presentation. I remember that in the end, when I went to give my presentation, it totaled to around 20 slides, and a 30-minute presentation. Even with my classmates falling asleep in the back, my passion carried ...
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