Back to School: I tried Zumba!

The end of summer is a bittersweet time as I look forward to fall and am forced to gear up for yet another busy semester at IUPUI. Unlike in past months, my fall semester includes seven courses and fifteen hours spent working in an office for one of my scholarship programs. I have a lot…

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Transformative Education + IUPUI

Each of the following links will take you to a different feature centering around IUPUI's Nina Scholars, Bowen Scholars, and Fostering Success programs. It was a great joy for me to speak with both staff and scholars involved with these programs and learn about the impact this unique form of programming has had. Fostering Success…

Street Team Intern: Weeks 7-13

My official time as an intern at the Indiana State Museum is over now. As I mentioned in my Instagram post on my last day, it was great experience! I spent the summer meeting new people in my industry and getting an inside look at what having a 'real' job is like. I am very…

Miscommunications from Professors

(And other people higher up on the food chain) When it comes to the classroom, there are very few things as frustrating as a professor who gives unclear instructions. It is especially difficult for me to be patient with communications professors who do this. How could you possibly give a delightful, well-informed lecture on transparent…

Do at least this one thing your advisors tell you to do:

Get involved.  When you're first exposed to a college campus, there's a few phrases that all the mentors/tour guides/advisors repeat so often that it makes you want to scream. One of those is the inevitable spiel about how fantastic "getting involved in campus" can be. I certainly spent the vast majority of my first few…

IUPUI Weeks of Welcome

As we near the month of August, I thought I would take a moment to upload some of the content I have worked on as the Marketing and Communications Lead for IUPUI's Weeks of Welcome Student Steering Committee. Weeks of Welcome is a program sponsored by IUPUI's office of Educational Partnerships and Student Advocacy (EPSA)…

The Mind Trust Social Media Process

I worked with The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis organization dedicated to improving education in the community, to draft a document that would highlight the benefits of utilizing social media as a Public Relations tool. Click the link below: MindTrust Social Media Process - Marissa Smith Supplemental Documents: Document A Document B For more information on…

The Forgotten Streets: An Analysis on the Effects of Social Stratification in Indianapolis

12/9/15 Applied anthropologists and sociologists often study the uneven distribution of wealth and equality as it appears within different societies around the world, whether it be researching ancient civilizations or modern day cultures.  The hierarchy that results from this inequality amongst the peoples of a culture is a phenomenon known as social stratification, and is…