Meet the 2007-2008 Writing Lab tutors!

Kandyce Korotky, Amanda Dunford, Aliyah Barrett, Michaela Margida, Molly Bunder, Brittany Hagar, (and Liz Robinson)

Liz Robinson is a junior biology major with aspirations of becoming a queen of her own island. Her business plans includes a monopoly of transportation to the island: air and sea. The economic business scheme involves leasing portions of her island to CBS for the 39^th season of Survivor or perhaps The Amazing Race. When not plotting her realty conquest, she indulges in her passion for Pad Thai. These consumed carbohydrates are useful after a hard day playing volleyball or working in a lab exploring the thrilling mechanism of glucose sensing in yeast. For comparison, the excitement of such an activity is close to that experience by a snail riding on the back of a turtle. Wee!

Brittany Hagar is a senior from Minot, North Dakota, majoring in religious studies and advanced nap techniques. She spent a year in England at the University of Reading, mastering the art of pub maintenance and lurking around back alleys in Oxford. As a former devotee of the Shaolin monks at the Temple of Punctuation, she knows forty-one different ways to kill someone with a semicolon. In her spare time, Brittany attends class, practices yoga, and whittles small Buddhas out of nutmegs. She is proficient in art history, Modernist poetry, and puff paint. She hopes to own an escape goat one day.

Molly Bunder is a senior theatre major from Indiana who came to R-MWC to seek her fame and fortune on the Thoresen Theatre Stage. Since her acting skills have yet to pay her room and board, she moonlights as a cleaning lady, dorm-room decorator, lounge singer, French translator, chocolate provider, and Writing Lab Tutor Extraordinaire! After spending her junior year at the University of Reading, Molly has not only developed the ability to write research papers on a vast array of subjects (such as theatre, musicals, and theatre) but she has also learned how to pepper her speech with words like "Cheers," "Ta," "Lush," "Differential Equations," and "Oh,          England." WELCOME TO THE WRITING LAB!

Amanda Dunford is a senior philosophy major with a penchant for existentialism and humor. She remains in mourning for the single greatest mind of our time, Hunter S. Thompson. Although she enjoys the company of most non life-threatening, non-human animals, she has a particularly enthusiastic adoration for her long-haired Chihuahua, Chulo (Spanish for handsome). She still holds adamantly to the notion that Marlon Brando, circa Streetcar Named Desire, was the most handsome man who has ever lived. Due to her inability to adequately describe herself via such short biographies, Amanda would encourage any and all inquiring minds to visit the Writing Lab and get to know her better.

Aliyah Barrett’s aspiration this academic year is to fill her brain faster than it leaks out the bottom (a hopeless task?). She is most seriously considering a career in medicine so she can indulge in her favorite pastime (making things ooze) and get paid for it. In her free time she will outfit a private railcar complete with kitchen and Jacuzzi in which to tour the United States. Not content to enjoy the creations of her own private chef, she will pipe the delicious smells into other cars until their carpets become sodden with drool. Aliyah is majoring in chemistry (with a minor in biology) in order to fund these and many other whims. This will be her second year tutoring in the writing lab and she is looking forward to helping you.

Michaela Margida is a sophomore Math and English major. She comes from a close-knit family including a nutritionist/ professor mother named Andrea, a chemist/ business consultant father named Anthony, and a roller coaster designer/dog trainer/baseball player brother named Gregory. Things that make her happy include receiving new textbooks in the mail, going running in inclement weather, wearing a wetsuit, making hay on her family’s farm, and that feeling she gets when all the units in her Chemistry homework cancel out except the desired one. More favorite activities consist of reading Runner’s World, reading your papers in the Writing Lab, reading Harry Potter, and reading the Sunday comics. She is an enthusiastic member of both the cross country team and swim team, recently learned to ride a bike with two wheels (!) and plans to enter her first triathlon in the spring. Upon graduating, she plans to attend graduate school and thus fulfill her dream of remaining a student for as long as the world and her finances will allow. When she leaves school eventually, she would like to live in Minnesota, where outdoorsy, running-obsessed types like her abound. She’ll move there after she spends some time in Costa Rica perfecting her Spanish, augmenting her social circle, scuba diving frequently, and probably obsessing about commas (her favorite piece of punctuation).

As an English and Spanish major, Kandyce Korotky spends most of her time outside of class reading. When not indulging in Shakespeare or Borges, she can be found around the College's barn or in the Writing Lab. Although she grew up in New Jersey, and the Shore will always have a special place in her heart, being able to look out a window and gaze upon the Blue Ridge Mountains is a treat that never loses its flavor. It doesn't hurt that Thoreau mentions these same mountains in Walden. As the allusion probably reveals, Transcendentalism is of particular intrigue to this English scholar, though her first love will always be proper grammar. She thoroughly enjoys time spent studying such matters but will always miss her parents, sister, and her vast array of animals, including the domestic skunk, Scooter, whose glands have been removed to avoid any mephitic spraying. As well as tutoring in the Writing Lab, Kandyce is also the AA for Moore Hall and a mentor in the Davenport Leadership Program. Upon graduating, she hopes to attend law school and pursue a career as an attorney.