Ali Oshinskie Pinnacles Submission
Submission to Pinnacles Individual Online Award for Best Podcasting. Taken from a bigger podcast, Episode 3: Sean Forbes
Original post contents below. Original post here, Episode 3: Sean Forbes
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Episode 6: Humanities Majors Are People Too
The Episode
Sometimes when you tell people you're a humanities major, they look at you like you just said you have 6 months to live. Is life with a humanities degree all that dismal? In this episode, Ali is te...
Episode 5: Victoria Ford Smith
The Episode
For Ali, the nights before the school resumes bring stress, lack of sleep, and counting of sheep. And the summer before senior year was the worst one. This semester, she's got a different kind of c...
Episode 4: Dwight Codr
The Episode
Professor Dwight Codr is the typical English professor, nice wool suit, tortoise-rimmed glasses, and loves himself some good British Literature. Ali isn’t the typical English major, she’s got ADD, ...
Season Two: Introduction, How to Get a Job
The Season
In May, Ali’s out of here. That’s right, she’s graduating and it’s time to find a job with her English degree. This season, Ali’s hitting office hours to learn the lesson everyone’s looking for but ...
Episode 3: Sean Forbes
The Episode
So here's the big reveal, Ali's not the only one behind Professors Are People Too! Sean Forbes, an Assistant Professor-in-Residence and the Director of Creative Writing, is Ali's podcast advisor...
Interview with Mike Wardynski
UConn students and proud WHUS members, Evan Fritz and Ali Oshinskie engage professional freelance photographer, Mike Wardynski, in a conversation about his time at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in November an...
Episode 2: Cathy Schlund-Vials
The Episode
On the first day of class, Professor Schlund-Vials does something unheard of. Impressed by this teaching tactic, Ali develops an "office-hours crush" and finds herself welcomed in Professor Schlu...
Episode 1: Gina Barreca
The Episode
Ali keeps hearing all these lovely things about someone named "Gina Barreca." But when she enrolls in Professor Barreca's Creative Writing course, it's not exactly what she expected. Professor Ba...
Professors Are People Too, Introduction
Host Ali Oshinskie loves school. But in her sophomore year, she took a lecture hall class that changed everything: the distance between the professor and the students made her wonder, do these people even care?...