“From this hour I
ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines.” This quote by Walt Whitman is prominently
displayed on a wall at the local coffee shop, and I've loved those words since
the first time I read them. There are multiple reasons I chose English for New
Media as my major, the first being my love for words. I love words. One of my favorite
pastimes is to sit down with a journal and write. Watching as handwritten words
slowly fill up a blank page makes me incredibly happy.
Another reason that I chose English for New Media as my
major is my love for literature. The first book that I ever read was Go, Dog. Go! and I have been an avid
reader ever since. Reading is like a treasure hunt to find ideas and thoughts
that other writers have put down in words. Not all ideas and thoughts expressed
by other writers strike me as groundbreaking, but occasionally I come across
something that completely makes sense to me, and I feel like I've made a
connection with someone that I've never met. I also love the challenge of discovering
an idea or thought that doesn't immediately make sense to me. Taking that idea and making an effort to try to figure out what the author meant by their words
and what their words mean to me.
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| "From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines." -Walt Whitman |
