Excerpts from Rainbow Stew
Faculty Mentor
Christina Olson, Writing & Linguistics
Faculty Mentor Email
colson@georgiasouthern.edu
Presentation Type and Release Option
Senior Reading Video (File Not Available for Download)
Award Type
Virtual
Presentation Year
2020
Start Date
4-27-2020 12:00 AM
Presenter Biography
Bodie is a Writing and Linguistics major with a minor in Spanish. He currently acts as the Co-Assistant Fiction Editor of Georgia Southern’s own literary magazine Miscellany and helped edit the upcoming edition of Calliope, a second Georgia Southern literary magazine. When he’s not giving campus tours, he can be found pretending to read somewhere. Bodie will graduate in the falls semester and hopes to go to graduate school for an M.F.A. in Fiction.
"When I came to Georgia Southern, all I wanted to do was write, but I was too afraid to do so. Every person in my life told me how I would pretty much be wasting my chance at college by pursuing Creative Writing. So, naturally, I let them all convince me they were right and opted for the technical side of the major. Then, I got to take Creative Writing because of the curriculum, and that’s when I finally realized that it was all I wanted to do. I decided that whatever I did after college would be okay, as long as I got to keep writing.
That being said, I want to thank all of the professors in our department. Each and everyone of you are so supportive, encouraging, and willing to work with students. Y’all truly help foster the community we have, and there’s nothing else like it at Southern. Thank you all for helping me become a better writer and a better person. However, I would like to send a special thanks to Sexton for putting up with my occasionally gross sentences. I would also like to send a special thanks to Olson for putting up with me at her office hours each week.
I’m going to miss all of my peers, especially the ones that are graduating. I want to thank y’all too because you have also been an enormous influence and inspiration.
To wrap things up, I’m just glad to have been a part of the community. At a university that can sometimes be embarrassingly backwards, I will always remember the Writing and Linguistics Department as a bright spot."
Academic Unit
Department of Writing and Linguistics
Excerpts from Rainbow Stew
Virtual
Bodie is a Writing and Linguistics major with a minor in Spanish. He currently acts as the Co-Assistant Fiction Editor of Georgia Southern’s own literary magazine Miscellany and helped edit the upcoming edition of Calliope, a second Georgia Southern literary magazine. When he’s not giving campus tours, he can be found pretending to read somewhere. Bodie will graduate in the falls semester and hopes to go to graduate school for an M.F.A. in Fiction.
"When I came to Georgia Southern, all I wanted to do was write, but I was too afraid to do so. Every person in my life told me how I would pretty much be wasting my chance at college by pursuing Creative Writing. So, naturally, I let them all convince me they were right and opted for the technical side of the major. Then, I got to take Creative Writing because of the curriculum, and that’s when I finally realized that it was all I wanted to do. I decided that whatever I did after college would be okay, as long as I got to keep writing.
That being said, I want to thank all of the professors in our department. Each and everyone of you are so supportive, encouraging, and willing to work with students. Y’all truly help foster the community we have, and there’s nothing else like it at Southern. Thank you all for helping me become a better writer and a better person. However, I would like to send a special thanks to Sexton for putting up with my occasionally gross sentences. I would also like to send a special thanks to Olson for putting up with me at her office hours each week.
I’m going to miss all of my peers, especially the ones that are graduating. I want to thank y’all too because you have also been an enormous influence and inspiration.
To wrap things up, I’m just glad to have been a part of the community. At a university that can sometimes be embarrassingly backwards, I will always remember the Writing and Linguistics Department as a bright spot."
