Author Archives: Mike McAlpin

Hi all, I hope all of your digital essays turned out well! I’m excited to begin our last week of classes at Baruch, though I will certainly miss this class once it is over. I had a bit of difficulty … Continue reading →

Since my meeting with Professor Kaufman, I have been spending a lot of time trying to my refine my final paper. One of the things I had significant trouble with during the writing process was clarity of my thesis, something … Continue reading →

Upon initially beginning research for this paper, I had the intention of writing about the Walt Whitman poem, “A Song of Myself“. Yet as I began to spend more time doing this research, I realized that this was not the … Continue reading →

After reading Frank O’Hara’s “Personism: A Manifesto”, I found myself very intrigued by what he had to say. One of the things he wrote in this essay that particularly stuck with me was “nobody should experience anything they don’t need … Continue reading →

Over the weekend, I got the chance to attend a Broadway show, something I have been unable to do for a very long time. I have only seen two shows on Broadway in my life, The Producers and Spamalot, and ever since … Continue reading →

At the start of class on Wednesday, I did not have very high hopes for the day of working with the Makey Makey. I knew that it was a device of near limitless capabilities, but I did not believe that … Continue reading →

I wasn’t always a city guy, nor did I ever believe that I would have become one. Born and raised in a small town on Long Island, I didn’t have much exposure to the grandeur that was New York City. … Continue reading →