Week 3: COM 412 Half Baked with Claire And

2. Pick one of the personal stories listed and answer: ​(Due 2/24)●What was the universal theme?●Did you feel a connection? If so, why? If not, what would have made it better?



Part 1:

Claire Wu Anderson // Peace Studies Major // Communication and Media Studies Minor


Never visited prior to the first day of move in my freshman year

Was told about Goucher by my college counselor

No one from my school had gone to Goucher, but my counselor had heard about it from “Colleges that Changed Lives”

Got in and got a lot of scholarship money, so my parents said that it was the best place to go since we wouldn’t go into debt

First time going to Baltimore was to move in

Met my close friend circle through my First Year Experience group and a smores night in the Freshman circle

Came onto campus thinking I was going to be a International Relations Major, changed to Peace Studies after a Peace Studies class my Freshman year spring

I liked Peace more because it was everything I liked about International Relations but with action tied to the findings and the research

I liked having an interdisciplinary major way more than having such a focused major

Took a Com CPE and really realized how much I liked the study area and how I’ve already been doing what I would be doing in class on my own during my childhood (making home movies, writing play scripts, like social media as a form of sharing art, etc.)

Added Com as my minor my sophomore year winter