MC1313 - Fall 2018 (Thursdays)

What is the purpose of college? For many, the word brings to mind a whiteboard, a professor, and a large host of featureless faces dutifully scribbling down notes, glancing sidelong at a clock as it slowly winds its inevitable course. It is an institution of learning, exploring, and discovering a passion in a world of choices and opportunities. This ideal is personified in Tamara Brown. Brown is a 21 year old Hill Country native, born in Austin, Texas and attended schools through Austin Independent School District until her path brought her to Westlake High School. While attending Westlake, her interests ranged from volleyball to choir while juggling the demands of education and a bustling social life. Although volleyball is no longer a hobby that she pursues, singing has remained an important part of her life and she can often be heard belting out lyrics from her favorite singer, Alicia Keys. After graduating from Westlake High School in 2015, Brown decided to experience...

Entering her Senior year at Texas State University, Mykl Miller Is an Advertising major from Midlothian, Texas. Outside of school, she has worked at Buffalo Wild Wings for the past two-and-a-half years. Besides her experience in the food service industry, Miller has interned with the Texas State Student Health Center as an assistant social media marketer. She applied for the internship thinking she would not get the position due to no prior experience, but after her interview, they really liked her! This has really helped her advance her career in Advertising.              In addition to school, work and her internship, she enjoys hiking, singing (Opera), and has a love for video games; Especially World of Warcraft. Mykl loves watching the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers with her older brother Cayn. Furthermore, she watches hockey, as her family is from the north and has always been very big Penguins fans. ...

Jonathan Pifer is a 22 year old Texas State University junior from South Austin, Texas. Jonathan is working towards a double major in Digital Media Innovation and Business Administration with a minor in Business. He works six days per week on campus running a teaching theater. Jonathan is a self-proclaimed introvert, and spends the rest of his time enjoying nature, playing golf, reading and playing video games. Also a lover of animals, Jonathan is interested in owning a pet, but is worried his apartment is too small. He is currently thinking of adopting a fat cat from the City of San Marcos Animal Shelter. 

After an initial arrangement fell through shortly after her high school graduation, Megan Reger was forced to travel alone into the desolate wasteland that is North Texas. Lubbock, Texas, is home to Texas Tech, the university she would be attending her freshman year of college, or as she warmly recalled, “a dusty West Texas town.” There, however, she would find her voice and connect with an audience during her venture into the world of vlogging. With approximately 200 subscribers, Reger spoke to the students of Texas Tech about anything relating to their community on and off campus, taking inspiration from notable vloggers, Monica Church and Casey Neistat, by recanting musings through dynamic video montages. Homesickness (and maybe a small dose of boredom) eventually took over and prompted her to transfer to Texas State University, where her family resides in the next town over, New Braunfels. Now a junior, Megan, 20, is working towards getting her bachelor's in electronic ...

Maddie Duplechin is a Junior at Texas State, currently studying General Mass Communications! Maddie is a twenty-one year old Houstonite, and transferred to Texas State from Houston's Lone Star Community College. Maddie is an officer for Bobcat P.R.I.D.E. and an active member of Lambda of Texas State. Maddie states that she is "just livin' life," and enjoys time with her one-year-old Daschund-Lab mix. Another fun fact about Maddie, she used to work in a veterinarians office as an assistant before she moved to San Marcos!

Summer Heart is in her junior year at Texas State University. Heart is currently studying as an Electronic Media major and hopes to become a casting director. She is deaf in her left ear, but that does not stop her from getting on stage to perform with the Comedy Association club on campus. Some of her favorite things include dogs, reading scripts and going to watch movies with her friends. She is from Houston, Texas, and came to Texas State University in order to get out of her hometown. She has never left the country and would like to visit Canada at some point in her life.

MacShayne Walpole, born in Louisiana, moved to Katy, Texas, in 2004. At 20 years old, she is now a junior at Texas State University. Getting to her junior year was not a breeze, though. MacShayne Walpole, who goes by Mac, had a torn and flipped meniscus with missing bone and cartilage floating around her knee which led to a mandatory surgery, which after, affected everything in her life, especially walking. Luckily, Walpole has passions that keep her busy. With a love for cars, specifically Lamborghinis, she ties in her talent of drawing design with her passion to design stickers. She advertises her art on Instagram at the handle @misfortvne. Due to this passion, Walpole plans on designs advertisements for big name cars and aspires to work for Lamborghini. In her free time, she enjoys being outdoors, hiking, and hanging out with her Doberman Pinscher, Rousch.