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I had been out of college for 5 years and after being accepted the knowledge of having to be a student again loomed over me. Homework, pro..

When I auditioned at URTAs back in January 2020, the first day involved an monologue and a possible “movement” callback. Unsurpri..

Corita Kent teaching with LIFE Magazine, photographed by Mary Anne Karia in 1965. https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2015/11/20/corita-kent..

The topic of intersectionality came up the other day in my Intro to Civic Media class. We were asked how our identities shape/affect our r..

My Name is Jesus Larios, but I have always gone by Jesse. I am a first-year Cinema and Television Producing MFA student at Columbia Colleg..

Over winter break, I spent a lot of time refining my processes to make sure I can get my work done as quickly and efficiently as possible…

I tend to talk with my hands a lot, so I imagine this is what my students see when I lecture on Zoom.

For me, one of the best things a..

I have a thesis to write and there seems to be about 8 million things I can do before even sitting down to think on whatever it is that I’..

As we start a new semester and have new classes it is always exciting and nerve-racking to jump in head-first with new professors and in m..

Abandoned Pool in Lebanon

I’ve been away for a while now. It’s been more than a month, but I’m back. I went to Lebanon: my native coun..