The majority of my blogs have been about Bachelor Nation, so it seemed fitting to make my final blog about the newest season of the Bachelorette. Michelle Young is the new Bachelorette and has won Bachelor Nation over with the poise she has exhibited over the duration of the ongoing season. Throughout this season, Michelle … Continue reading Interpersonal Communication in a Social Experiment →

This semester has been the hardest semester for me at Baylor. I started working in a clinic last year when classes were mostly online. However, this semester all of my classes, except one, are in person. On top of this, I am working more hours at the clinic. I work anywhere between 20-25 hours a … Continue reading Cognitive Dissonance From a Personal Perspective →

I am an undergraduate student at Baylor University and one of the organizations at Baylor is our newspaper called The Lariat. To the best of my knowledge, this is a student run newspaper that releases a new edition every day. Each edition consists of multiple stories from Baylor, and even some about current events. In … Continue reading Narrative Paradigm and the News →

There have been plenty of times that celebrities have “broken” the internet. Any time a celebrity posts major news the internet goes wild. The majority of the time, it’s excitement over whatever the celebrity has to say. Recently, Zendaya and Tom Holland posted on their personal Instagrams pictures with each other, with little context. People … Continue reading Media Ecology Theory: How We Shape Our Lives →

The past two years have been interesting to say the least. The world was hit with a global pandemic spring of 2020. The spread of this virus brought fear, rage, confusion, and skepticism. With this global pandemic, news was being updated almost daily on the effects of the virus, and what was deemed safe or … Continue reading How Do We Know What We Know? →

As a student at Baylor University, I see a lot of different interactions between groups of people. As a predominantly white university, I am in the majority. Through my years at Baylor, I have noticed an increase in diversity in the student population. My freshman year, my roommate was a minority on campus. She opened … Continue reading There’s More to it: Co-Cultural Theory of Communication →

One of my all-time favorite shows, Grey’s Anatomy, brought back fan favorite characters. Last week, in season 18 episode 3, they brought back Addison Montgomery. Addison is one of my favorite characters on the show. When she first came, she was supposed to be portrayed as a villain, but instead the fans loved her. She … Continue reading Cognitive Dissonance: Probably Not the Best Approach at Work →

About a year ago I started a job at an ABA clinic called Focus. If you don’t know what ABA is, most don’t, it’s Applied Behavioral Analysis and basically what the field does is work with kids or people with developmental disabilities, primarily Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and help them function in a world that … Continue reading Focus: One Company’s Cultural Approach to Organizations →

By now, it is probably no surprise that this blog is going to be about Bachelor in Paradise again. I know, I need to calm down, but I have some good news. This season of the show has ended, so the odds of me writing about it in the future are small, but not none. … Continue reading Creating a Confidant: Communication Privacy Management Theory →

This week I’m going to get a little personal. I have a boyfriend, his name is Kyle, and we have been dating for over four years. Yes, you read that correctly, over four years. We started dating our sophomore year of high school and are still dating his junior my senior year of college (I … Continue reading Media Multiplexity Theory: A Simple Way to Measure your Relationships →