Category: IS Files

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. It’s spring break at both UTD and my daughter’s elementary school, so what could have been a fairly relaxing week for me instead involves my daughter taking over my office with glitter markers and jelly beans. Right now she’s texting me from […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. I’m ready for summer. I know I’m going to regret saying that in roughly mid-July, when it’s been 108º for 14 days in a row and I can’t get the house cool enough and all I want to do is hover above […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. I’m really sorry about the leaf blower, guys. The lesson of today’s video is sometimes you just have to power through and keep going even when it feels like everything is falling apart. From losing loved ones to getting sick to having […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. As I write this, we just learned this morning that we lost our dear friend and colleague, Kyle Lee, over the weekend. It’s difficult to go through the motions of working in his absence, expecting to see him crossing the lobby in […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. Since I made the video so long, I’m going to keep this part short. All you really need to know about this week is that Fan Studies is a deeply fascinating field. This week’s readings covered everything from the anthropologist Michel de […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. My poetry workshop went crazy last week. We got on the DART train. It felt weird at first, sitting with about ten other students and our professor having class on the train while other people were riding to work. I felt conspicuous […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for more context. In this week’s video, I talk about Beyonce. Kind of a lot, honestly. The Grammys were last night, and Queen Bey’s long-awaited and much-lauded genre-bending country album Cowboy Carter won both Best Country Album and Album of the Year. It’s a […]

I’m Kristen, the Marketing Communications Manager here at the School of IS, and now an IS student. I switched my major from the MS in Marketing to the MA in Interdisciplinary Studies, and in this weekly series I share my experience with the MAIS. As the weeks go on, I’ll talk about the coursework, the […]