Hello, my name is Rebekah Chung, or Bex, if you like.  I am a junior at TU, majoring in English with a minor in Philosophy and any other electives I can slip into my schedule.  I spent the first nineteen years of my life trying to pursue a career of the math/science/engineering sort, but after a year in college, I realized that I wasn't doing anyone any favours by doing so.  I changed over to something I felt I could do well in and love, which landed me at Henry Kendall School of Arts and Sciences.  I still worry about what I'm going to do with my life after college, but for now, what matters is that there are a thousand classes I want to take and only a few more semesters!  I think what I love most about English is that it, on some level, accounts for my insane variety of interests, so I can really talk abut and study anything.  Hopefully, this will all amount to something, someday.

The World War I class interests me for several reasons. It bears a huge significance because of its impact on many of my favourite writers of all time--Yeats, Eliot, Hemingway, Lewis, and Tolkien, to name a few.  In addition, the war was an integral factor in the growing recognition of trauma and psychological disabilities, an area that I take something of an amateur interest in.  From a less subject-specific standpoint, I am extremely excited by the opportunity to work with Special Collections.  I look forward to getting a look into the archiving process and some well-needed hands-on experience with organizing intellectual resources for consumption--any class that offers practical work is an instant sell for me!