{"id":8839,"date":"2026-01-19T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:59:56","slug":"new-year-same-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/new-year-same-me\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, Same Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20250515_181621-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9050\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7499999776482589;width:262px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20250515_181621-edited-1.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20250515_181621-edited-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20250515_181621-edited-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20250515_181621-edited-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20250515_181621-edited-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup><em>Leading my first storytime at work!<\/em><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Hello everyone! My name is Gwen Roberts, and I&#8217;m currently in my penultimate semester at FSU for the MSI program. My academic background is actually in the social sciences, as I obtained a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Sociology from the New College of Florida in Sarasota. However, I&#8217;m happy to be getting my graduate degree in a field that facilitates another one of my interests, librarianship and information literacy. Currently I work for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/library\/Pages\/Default.aspx\">Broward County Public Library System<\/a> as a Librarian Trainee, on track to becoming a fully salaried Librarian when I graduate in August! I mainly work in Adult Services right now, but at some point I&#8217;d like to be a Youth Librarian as I feel like my enthusiasm and penchant for silliness suits that environment better. I live in Sunrise, but I&#8217;m actually from Trinidad, which is a place so rich in cultural diversity and natural beauty I can&#8217;t even begin to describe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m very excited for this class because I&#8217;ve been creatively inclined my entire life and really enjoy making art as well as engaging with it. I wrote my <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.ncf.edu\/theses_etds\/6324\/\">undergraduate thesis<\/a> on Korean hip-hop music and cross-cultural expression, and for one of my classes last semester I managed to make an entire book trailer using only Powerpoint. It was quite possibly one of the most interesting experiences I&#8217;ve had making art since Powerpoint is not really a software for doing animation, but I really enjoyed trying to make it work. Hopefully this time I will learn how to use tools that are actually intended to be used for video editing however. I look forward to honing my (very elementary) skills in editing and digital media creation, and having a creative outlet. I&#8217;m also really excited to see what kind of unique artwork everyone else produces! Aside from writing about art and using unusual programs to make it, I also enjoy reading and playing video games, in the hopes of possibly making a game of my own some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! My name is Gwen Roberts, and I&#8217;m currently in my penultimate semester at FSU for the MSI program. My academic background is actually in the social sciences, as I obtained a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Sociology from the New&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2026","category-student","tag-ml1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9051,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions\/9051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}