My name is Kalyn Nowlan, and I am a junior studying English with a concentration in environmental writing. This semester, I am working as a Digital Media Specialist for the Office of the Provost. At the moment, my and my partner's responsibilities include scripting, recording, and publishing a podcast series for the Office of the Provost. Our podcast, Dear Alma, is “by faculty, for faculty” and asks senior faculty members to consider what they would have done differently when they first entered academia. The Office of the Provost creates content that helps faculty members with adjusting to the challenges inherent to academia, and our podcasts are intended to make this content easier to access and understand for Millennial faculty. Through this internship, I have gone around campus to meet faculty members across the disciplines and interviewed them about their experiences. As such, I have acquired a great number of applied communication skills. My favorite part of the internship is listening to the completed podcast, as well as getting to know people and learning from their experiences myself.

As an English major, I obviously really love reading and writing. If I had to pick one novel to be my favorite, I would have to pick J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. My favorite class in my major has been English 301, because I think that literary theory can be applied to almost anything in popular culture. Outside of my major, my favorite class would be Anthropology 110, which talks about the ethics of science. Outside of academics, I am in CHAARG, which is an exercise group for women and aims to “liberate young women from the elliptical” and encourages body positivity.