1. @paceamorebella

    Pin It! Pinteresting my Perfect Future Home

    by
    Originally Published May 10, 2020 Have you ever caught yourself scrolling through Pinterest to save pins for your picture-perfect home? Well I have. And lately while quarantining in a stuffy small apartment, I have found myself thinking about how I would want to design and furnish my future residence. Feel free to follow along as […]
  2. @paceamorebella

    The Bucket List

    by
    Originally Published April 18, 2020 “Oh the places you will go” -Dr. Seuss There are three types of people in this world- your savers, spenders, and experiencers. For example, my mother is a saver, because she likes to deposit that hard earned cash into her savings. She doesn’t eat out much, engage in retail therapy, […]
  3. @paceamorebella

    COVID-19 You Can’t Spell Virus Without U and I

    by
    Originally Published March 28, 2020 What day of social distancing is it anyways? With everything being flipped upside down and having to adjust routine, this time in isolation has not been easy, but necessary. Experts say the best way to combat the spread of coronavirus is through distancing, as some people can be asymptomatic. Of […]
  4. @paceamorebella

    Dating Shows- Finding “love” on the Most Dramatic Season of “Reality” TV!

    by
    Originally Published March 14, 2020 Excuse my language, but holy hell… my first blog post was about all the wonderful things to come in 2020, then fast forward two weeks and people are asked to start quarantining themselves because of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. I will create a separate post for that because it is […]
  5. @sguptaauthor

    Who is S. Gupta? Exploring Digital Identity

    by
    I. Avoiding Disaster Defining digital identity is a difficult task. So instead of doing that, I’ll start off with two examples of digital identity gone horribly wrong, which I cannot discuss for reasons that will soon become obvious. Click the links or Google (except maybe not in an official setting like an open cubicle). Santorum’s … Continue reading Who is S. Gupta? Exploring Digital Identity
  6. @sguptaauthor

    Trying to Identify Myself Online: Digital Identity

    by
    Curse me for having such a common name, because I was not included in any of the first few pages of results for my name when I followed the instructions for this assignment: Google yourself. Try it logged into Google, then logged out and in incognito/private mode. Also try DuckDuckGo. What are the differences? the consistencies? So … Continue reading Trying to Identify Myself Online: Digital Identity
  7. @sguptaauthor

    I Give Up: A Journey to Not Caring About Copyright

    by
    Post a link to the page(s) on your site containing Creative Commons or public domain material in the #activities channel on Slack, with a brief note about how/why you attributed them the way you did. Public Domain #1 Composition in red, yellow, blue and black. 1926. oil on canvas. I chose this piece that I had already pinned on my … Continue reading I Give Up: A Journey to Not Caring About Copyright
  8. @sguptaauthor

    If you read only one thing on my blog…

    by
    If you see this message, I’m waiting for my blog post to be written by collective intelligence. Just kidding of course; that’s not something collective intelligence can accomplish. Which is why everyone needs to learn to express themselves in the long, sometimes tedious format of an essay, perhaps now more than ever, because while collective intelligence has … Continue reading If you read only one thing on my blog…
  9. @sguptaauthor

    Faces of the Internet: Representation Activity

    by
    The “Representation” Activity required us to do the following: Perform Google image searches for the following terms Teacher: almost exclusively white women Professor: almost exclusively white men Doctor: almost exclusively white men Nurse: almost exclusively white females Baby: almost exclusively white Teenager: almost exclusively white, mainly girls Criminal: Mostly clip art. When I did a … Continue reading Faces of the Internet: Representation Activity
  10. @sguptaauthor

    The Sequel to 1984: Thoughts about Censorship

    by
    After a great afternoon of elation about the great possibilities of the Internet, I was appalled after learning that about 1/4th of our Internet’s citizens exist behind China’s Great Firewall. The headline of the article where I read this states China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works. They’re not wrong. It’s hard … Continue reading The Sequel to 1984: Thoughts about Censorship
  11. @itsabhitiwari1

    Good news – 9 out of 10 strokes are preventable according to an article in the Lancet

    by
    Collaborators from 32 countries, build on preliminary findings from the first phase of the INTERSTROKE study, which identified ten modifiable risk factors for stroke in 6000 participants from 22 countries. High blood pressure remains the single most important modifiable risk factor for stroke and the impact of hypertension and nine other risk factors together account […]

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

Welcome to Paul Bond and Jim Groom’s Spring 2024 ds106

Student Blogs

(9 posts)

[feedroll tag=”spring24bond”]

Spread some comment love! Find a random post from this section