Hooray for a New Semester

My name is Lauren Pierce. I was born in Georgia and raised in Southern California. Although I am from Orange County I tend to leave that out when I initially meet people to avoid the knee jerk judgements. The statement, "somewhere between L. A. and San Diego," usually comes up. I am a senior at TCU but I will not be graduating until December, to make a long story short, transferring has a lot of setbacks. Psychology and I have and ongoing relationship and I will be applying to graduate school next year pursuing a degree in marriage and family therapy.

My reason for enrolling in this course is because it was required, but since I am a psychology major with a religion minor I have done a lot of research papers and scientific writing. It would be great to hone my skills as a research writer and to learn to better develop my argument for findings in the scientific setting. Outside of school I do a ton of nonsensical writing. I blog, facebook, and text mostly. I am slowly gaining confidence in myself as a writer especially after a very critical professor in a religion writing class let me out with a B on the final research paper.

I love to come off as nonchalant and fun. I think with the feminine colors, but not hot pink, it helps my point. The links also help to display a fun and kind of mysterious attitude with how vague they are. As an author I would say that this blog foreshadows my ability to hold a readers interest but not give away all the good stuff all at once. I think the amount of things I have added and will be adding to my blog can say one of two things. First, it could be saying that I have extreme commitment to this course. Second, it could also be saying that I am a former blogger who loves to play around with this stuff. (Hopefully, it comes out to be a little bit of both)

Written final statement: I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus, which I see as a contract for our course.