by Jenae Cohn | Sep 4, 2013 | Personal, Professionalization
When I went to college, I remember purchasing a digital camera for the first time. Its functionality was pretty basic, but all I really wanted to do with it was create brag-worthy content for my brand new Facebook account. Of course, I also had some serious archival...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 20, 2013 | Personal
Every six months, I go through this cycle where I wonder if I’m a sham. I’ve identified myself as a “writer” for most of my (young) adult life, but I frequently find myself in a self-loathing moment where I wonder, “If I don’t...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 1, 2012 | Pedagogy
I glanced at the clock: 7:50 A.M. Everyone’s here? Now? I teach UWP 1, freshman composition, in a computer lab this quarter and behind every monitor sat a student waiting to begin class. They were all ten minutes early at the already inhumane (at least by...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 21, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal
I am an emoticon abuser. Whenever the situation is appropriate for a smiley face, you bet that I’ll go ahead and include one. This is not something of which I am particularly proud. Granted, the New York Times has justified the existence of our smiling keyboard...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal
“You’re going to come running back to academia,” a colleague assured me when I described to her my summer internship working in a Technical Communications department at a company in San Diego. Maybe so. I received a whole packet of documents today...
