On Tuesday, Professor Irwin Appel gave us a presentation on the Theater and Dance Department at UCSB. He explained how he his parents may have shaped his love for live theater and that he had always wanted to become an actor when he was younger, and never expected to become a professor. However, he loves being a professor and teaching at UCSB because of the energy of the students always give him. He recommended us to take classes we wouldn’t normally take, and I found that to be very good advice because exploring new things can possibly lead us on different paths. His enthusiasm for theater made me quite excited to see the production of Macbeth, and I must say I was very impressed. I thought it was very creative how they used sticks in substitute for different props including swords and tables. Theater seems like an interesting class, so I may take one course during my freshman year to see how it is.
On Friday, we had the pleasure to go to the Education Abroad Program office and receive a presentation from one of the peer advisors, Maya. She was very informative and made me extremely interested in joining. So far I am thinking about studying abroad in either France or Italy because of their fashion industry, but for many of the programs, I would need to know the language and I don’t think I have time to learn a whole new language in a year. I want to explore my options and hopefully study abroad during my sophomore year, but I would need to take all the Pre-Comm courses before I can go abroad. I’m glad UCSB give students the opportunity to study overseas and embed ourselves in different cultures.
