Had this conversation with many friends this weekend: #BaylorHomecoming nostalgia is so much more than what happened during your undergrad years.
My Baylor Family are the people I worked with in MarComm, who changed my concept of what it means to feel like a Baylor Bear. 💚💛
We call #BaylorHomecoming a Baylor Family reunion for a reason. 💚💛
So good to get to see and catch up with two of my former team members! Over the last decade, @rachmillmod and @carlyeEliz played big parts in making Baylor social media what it is today. #SicEm
As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...
i was done writing something DAYS ago but then i took one little tiny peek back into the archives, just one last look, and found a bread crumb trail i followed for 20 hours. born to dig, forced to write 🥲
One of the greatest MYTHS in cultural psychology is collectivists (e.g. Asians) don't compete––they are a kumbaya/harmonious/lovey dovey bunch who prioritize interpersonal relationships, unlike those individualistic Americans who are self-serving and competitive. 1
I do a fun exercise about ID/place with my students where I ask “who is allowed to call themselves a NYer” and they are so quick to say “born and raised”
I complicate it by asking “what about the halal guy on 10th”
And suddenly it all unravels.
really interesting divide in the comments… as a woman in a male dominated field (science at large, synbio) I often find that my tendency to dress creatively as well as wear makeup/nails is heavily interpreted as not being serious about my work (1/6)🧵🪡
I love Johnny Cash, but if a pop star played a concert at a prison today and then released it as a live album, the ensuing discourse would render this website unusable for a month.