Experiences at Wellesley College

Intending at the time to pursue a career in broadcast journalism, I fell into being a religion major because it was a great combination of various liberal arts disciplines. Having been raised in a faith tradition myself, it taught me to step outside of that and look at my experiences objectively. When I wasn't in class, I was reporting for the school newspaper and interning off campus at the local ABC affiliate for 30 hours a week....

Majored in Studio Art (focus Digital Art & Sculpture) and Media Arts & Sciences (effectively Web Design & Development). I attended Wellesley during the first dot-com bubble, and the school measured time to determine its response to the growing student interest in web design/development topics. A few like-minded students and myself banded together to form a loose independent major in web technologies and issues, gathering what we could from the school curriculum. My focus was media theory (emerging media) and graphic design. I tied the two together through my volunteer role as the Graphic Editor of the campus weekly newspaper, the Wellesley News. It was a great start to a lifetime of self-education about web technologies....