CODES 121
you will set up your page and add your first artifacts, with a chance to reflect on how what you learned during your first semester at SIUE. You might consider what your expectations of college were, what challenges you faced, and what you still want to work on in the future.
Putting my entire journey this far into just a few photos is a difficult ask. There have been so many highs, as well as a few lows. I am not one to take photos all the time so I will do my best to take you through my highs while at SIUE.
The DH Showcase for the Fall ’23 semester allowed for me to learn how to get better at presenting. Letting all the jitters out before a presentation is key. Compared to all other members of my group I definitely felt like I appeared the most nervous. Earlier in the week, we had a presentation in CODES 121, which I personally feel like went smoother just because it was a presentation just to our class. While I was presenting, I felt like crazy jitters that I can’t even describe. My priorities were met from the last notes I had made for myself. I wrote a series of notecards that said exactly what I was going to say which helped with the anxiety a lot and refrained me from being repetitive.
Plenty of sweat and tears were put into my Story Map for the Black Lives Matter Movement. I have to say, give myself a huge pat on the back for cranking that amazing piece out to look as good as it did. I honestly impressed myself. My team’s effort working together definitely presented its own set of challenges and cut it down to the wire on being submitted, but this project is one my favorite project I have ever worked on.
https://storymap.knightlab.com/edit/?id=black-lives-matter-in-tower-grove
CODES 123
you will reflect on your first full year as a student and revisit your plans for your major. How have your goals and ideas changed? What have been your biggest accomplishments? How have your ideas about community changed and developed over the last year?
My first full year as a college student has been a mind boggling experience to say the least. When I first came here, I was undecided even though I had gotten accepted as a nursing major. Then my major changed to Pharmaceutical Science because I had a longing to become a research pharmacist. That one didn’t stick very long either. Then I jumped to Medical Science, but then I found out about a month before the end of my first year, that medical science is a Bachelor’s of Arts of degree which I definitely don’t need.
My biggest accomplishment this year would be making the mind shattering decision to dedicate my academic undergraduate times to going to medical school and spending over a decade in school to become what I have longed to be since I was a little girl.
The work that has been done within the Missouri Botanical Garden this year has shown me how the community of Tower Grove and the vast communities of the greater St. Louis county are so complex and have ever growing stories that must be told. The good, the ugly, and the brutal to see. All sides of these stories are important, but the most important with writings of these stories is who we give the voice to. Whether that is the voice of the underrepresented, the voice of the upperhand white man, or the voice of the children. Biases would be present in all options, but all sides must be rang through the streets of St. Louis and the entire World so that the legacies can be seen.