by Christine Palmer | Apr 16, 2024 |
As I reflect on my time in the PLA, at Penn State, and up until this point in my life, I find myself returning to the well-known proverb: “It takes a village to raise a child”. I was anticipating writing my final blog post (and of course getting emotional...
by Christine Palmer | Mar 31, 2024 |
Recently, instead of scrolling on social media, I find myself scrolling through StreetEasy and Zillow. I look at apartments before I go to bed and I mindlessly scroll through listings when I idle on my phone. As terrifying as it is to look for a new apartment in a big...
by Christine Palmer | Mar 14, 2024
Halfway through this semester, I finally made it to the most anticipated unit in my ceramics class: throwing on the wheel. I have always loved working with clay: when I was younger, one of my greatest pastimes was sculpting figures out of polymer clay. When I got to...
by Christine Palmer | Feb 18, 2024 |
Have you ever found yourself in a very specific moment, in which you are struck with the realization: “Oh. This all makes sense now.” ? While I have experienced many micro instances like this in my life–from having a hard math problem finally click, to finding closure...
by Christine Palmer | Feb 4, 2024 |
Over winter break, I went rock climbing for the first time. I thought it would be a ‘one-and-done’ type of situation, but I actually have been consistently going rock climbing between 2-3 times weekly since. As someone who is (slightly) afraid of heights and had no...
by Christine Palmer | Jan 18, 2024 |
Every once in a while, I find myself clicking back through the collection of PLA blogs and sifting through the blogs of individuals I never knew. It’s a weird feeling – the Academy and the university tie us all together, yet here I am reading (and relating to) the...
by Christine Palmer | Dec 3, 2023
Somewhere in between ‘making Instagram casual again’ and painstakingly staged picture-perfect ops, the art of the photo dump was born. A blend between being casually uncasual and also aestheticizing the most mundane moments, the photo dump is a form of...
by Christine Palmer | Nov 5, 2023 |
In my Theatre class, one of the very first themes we explored included what defines ‘performance’. While performance is often generalized to creative acts, such as music, shows, and dances, literally anything can be viewed as performance. The course went on to explain...
by Christine Palmer | Oct 21, 2023
The three/four year age gap seems to be the sweet-spot for many sibling pairs, and this is also true for my sibling and I. In my opinion, this age gap is perfect — close enough in age to understand one another, but not close enough that our lives are overlapping with...
by Christine Palmer | Oct 8, 2023 |
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the world’s largest gathering of women in computing–the Grace Hopper Celebration! Named after Grace Hopper, a woman whose work laid the foundation for modern day computer programming, the four day conference consisted...
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