Meet the WesBlogger: Holly Wood, '08

Meet the WesBlogger: Holly Wood, '08

I am the notorious H to the Wizzle, Holly Wood, inc. Yes, before you ask, Holly Wood is my birth name. I did not create it to be "cool" or "with it" upon arriving at Wesleyan. Incidentally, I have never been "cool" or "with it" since birth, either.

To steal the template shamelessly from Joe John:

• I am a Wesleyan student.
• I am a double major in Sociology and Government.
• I am a political junkie. Yes, this is important.
  
• I, too, was a member of the WSA for approximately 28 hours.
• I am a research assistant to Visiting Sociology Professor Lynn Owens. I study New Orleans. This does not, in fact, make me very important.
• I own a pet hedgehog. He looks like this:

  

So how does one girl lead a life so spectacular as I do? I don't know. I don't do it very well.

Anyway, above all that crap, I work hard towards freaking out in general about my life and all its complexities. Mostly, I hate one of my majors and adore the other. Therefore, I have a very love/hate relationship with academics at Wesleyan. Despite this, I have secured an internship this summer with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this summer which I hope will lead to the kind of connections one person such as I would need upon leaving Wesleyan for a career in political strategy. Now approaching my third year at Wesleyan, I am convinced nothing I learn in college will do me any good after graduation and am patiently waiting to be convinced otherwise.

In keeping up with Joe John's penchant for dropping out of clubs, as mentioned, I was a write-in candidate for the WSA and my political career lasted until the first meeting, where I announced my retirement in protest to the WSA internal elections. I was also a member of the Wesleyan Debate Team, until the weekend tournaments began conflicting with my academics and dignity (I adore most members on the Wesleyan debate team, though). There are probably other clubs I was in for a brief amount of time, but obviously, they were so unimportant to me that I can't remember to mention them now.

Every few months or so I drive back to my hole in East Stroudsburg, PA where I claim residency on most of my federal documentation. I come from a Working-Class Background which entitles me to nothing except I get to say "Fuck, I'm poor as SHIT, yo," come financial aid season (which is now, by the way).

I am "Wesmarried*," a term you will hear a lot your first week and will never be used again, in that I am in a long-term, monogamous relationship with one (1) person and am very often seen in this gentleman's company. He is a runner on both the Cross-Country and Track teams.

I am liberal, but not really liberal, depending on who you ask. I consider myself a student of the practical rather than the radical with a tendency to lean obnoxiously to the left. I am a solid Democrat and take great pride in my party affiliation.

So in conclusion, I should be in bed right now, but I am not. Oh the places you will go, and all that.

*Depending on who you ask, relationships at Wesleyan are fucked up in general and fall into either of two categories: "hooking up" or "wesmarried." There is no dating. However, this is true of most college-aged people in general, not just Wesleyan students. I should elaborate.