Who? Me?

      I once spent a semester tracing my family's history of schooling to make a zine, at the risk of self-plagiarism I'll attach a copy for you to peruse. My family has a complicated (but rather short) history with school, my great-grandfather dropped out of the second grade, his son finished high school and eventually college, and my dad now has a bachelor's and master's degree. Despite what were likely learning difficulties my grandfather was able to attend school and go and radically change the course of his children and grandchildren's lives. Thanks to the public school system in Eastern Kentucky (and him faking being drafted but that's not what's important here), my grandfather was able to send his son to school eventually culminating in my dad obtaining a degree in engineering. In only a generation the level of education in my family increased from my great-grandfather not being able to read and write to my dad designing bridges and other public infra...

  Why?           I receive more pushback than I anticipate sometimes when I tell people I want to teach science, I expect to get the typical ‘oh my aunt taught history’ or ‘I hated my high school science teacher' (if you know how to respond to those let me know because I don't), but every once and a while I’ll get someone asking why . Why science? To me, it's obvious. I’ve lived my entire life in a world that not only likes to ignore scientific facts but actively pushes disinformation to the spotlight. I think living through a pandemic has made me realize this even more, the amount of wrong information passed around without so much as a google search to double-check its accuracy is the most frustrating thing I've ever witnessed.      I think this distrust and ignorance of science starts at an early age and can be influenced by having people in your life that appreciate and understand science and scientific thinking. I had my life fundam...

 About Me      Hi, I'm Mallory, I use she series pronouns, and it's my second semester at Texas State! If you ask me what year I am in school I will reply with a long groan, basically, I'm 23 and I'm doing my best. Before being at Texas State I attended Colorado State University transferring here in the Fall of 2021, I am currently a dual major in biology and education, with the hopes of becoming a high school science teacher. While I claim San Antonio as my hometown I could also claim a small town in Indiana or a medium (in all senses of the word) city in Ohio.       Currently, I live with my roommate/cat/best friend Orla, we pass our days watching movies, playing, and sunning ourselves on the small balcony I converted to a catio.      Outside of my cat (who you will hear plenty about), I am a mediocre rollerskater, a lover of audiobooks, and a half-decent seamstress who can also quilt.  (Orla modeling) (Orla upset that I have...