We Wake, We Write | a reflective portfolio of multimedia student writing at Wake Forest University

A Reflection of an All-Girls Education Experience

Reflection Paper This project was a lot of work to take on with only a week left of school, but I think our group rose to the task quite nicely. We collaborated well and met everyday after the project was assigned which paid off. I am personally proud of where we stand and I think…

Reflecting on “Sorority Stereotypes”

Our first challenge as a group, of course, was to choose which ethnography to adapt into a video. This decision was a tough one for us, because we wanted our film to relate to an audience here at Wake Forest. We also needed a paper rich with evidence and personal experience, so that we would…

A Reflection of a Ballet Autoethnography

Introduction The video we created is about the positive and negative aspects of being a female ballet dancer. Amelia put in her own story confirming the scholarly information while discussing gaps in the scholarly information such as the number of dancers who leave the group after their body matures as well as the lack of…

A Reflection on the Making of “Naturally Me”

Our fourth and final project of the semester consisted of adapting one of our randomly assigned group member’s autoethnography from project three into a video project. At first, we were all nervous about choosing whose project to use, because it didn’t necessary have to be the one receiving the best grade; we wanted to choose…

Reflecting on “Vegetarianism”

Working in a new medium is difficult; working in a group is difficult. With these things in mind, working in a group to create a digital autoethnography on vegetarianism in college, a topic that only one group member had prior experience with, should sound impossible. However, this did not prove to be the case. Despite…

Looking Back on the Italian-American Experience

For our project, we decided to turn Daniel’s autoethnography into a video. The purpose of this paper was to add to the larger conversation about immigrating and assimilating cultures within the United States and how connections can be made between members of these cultural groups as they go through and reflect on the forever challenging…

Reflection of a Not-So-Typical College Student

When starting Project 4, the thought of working in a randomly assigned group was intimidating for all of us, especially because we all knew that the project required us to share our personal in-groups and autoethnographies with one another putting us in a very unavoidably vulnerable situation. When first assigned to our group, we all…

Reflecting on the Making of “Jewish College Students”

In this last project of the semester, the main argument we try to make in the video is that students who belong to minority groups often face discrimination, and have trouble finding their own identity when they face new chapters in their lives. We used various sources that studied this phenomena along with Sterling’s personal…

Reflecting on Indian Students in American Universities

When the time came to start Project Four, our group began by looking over each other’s autoethnographies, and concluded that Mudit’s paper would be best for a popular audience. We concluded that Martin’s paper about being a part of the PC gaming community, and Clark’s paper about being a southern male at a northern boarding…

The Sneaker Wave: A Video Essay

As writers, we have learned to embrace the feeling of ambiguity and face the unknown when beginning a new writing assignment. Alas, in turning one of our memoirs into a video, we struggled with these dilemmas in the initial stages of this assignment. At first, we were unable to collectively and unanimously determine which of…