Hello there, my name is Katie.

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Well it's blogging time again! Hello folks, my name is Katie and welcome to my fourth blog on Blogger. This one is for my MCS222 class at good ol' UMBC. I have been blogging for about 6 years, keeping both personal online journals and subject-based ones. As someone who stepped into the world of "internet diaries" back in high school it has been a valuable tool in both expressing myself, improving my writing, sharing artwork, keeping in touch with friends from real-life and the digital realm, but most of all recording memories in a digital scrapbook.

About me...let's see... Well, I'm in my final semester at UMBC as a Visual Arts/Animation major. Why in an Intro MCS class now? Well, the class always conflicted with my major classes before. What a bummer, eh? I'm looking forward to sharing my thoughts on media, especially the technology side. Since taking the Pop Culture class at UMBC so long ago, I've been doing more writing on video games, moreso topics that involve explaining the culture of gaming to those who sit on the edge turning their noses up and/or call for government regulation. This was also the topic of my paper for the AMST internship class where I interned at the Imaging Research Center here at UMBC.

Anywho, as someone who wants to go into the video game and major motion picture industry eventually, I feel that these classes are helping me to understand not only the potential audiences, but also the inner workings of our culture, especially with how it grows. However, I am not someone who has just one career goal. I'd call it more of a "life goal" I suppose. In the near future, I'd love to take these American studies and skills developed in the Visual Arts to travel and work abroad. This past Fall semester I got a small taste with a stay in Valencia, Spain. The experience gave me a much greater understanding of what it means to be an American, but also what it means to be world citizen. I kept a blog on those adventures, which can be seen by clicking here.

That's all for now! Stay tuned!

Katie