{"id":33,"date":"2017-11-17T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/philosophy\/meet-our-students\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:23:26","slug":"meet-our-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/philosophy\/meet-our-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sarah Wright<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Contract Major in Moral Philosophy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sarah grew up in Huntington, CT her entire life. After an attempt to persuade a career in Manufacturing Technology, she soon found out the smell of oil was revolting. After some thought, she attempted to peruse a career in the Cosmetology Field, but she noticed the hairdressing lifestyle wasn’t for her. After much debate with herself, she finally decided to go to college, after taking Intro to Philosophy, she has found her calling! Also, she some how attained the position of Vice President of the Philosophy Club at WCSU. Sarah mainly enjoys but is not limited to reading Plato’s Socrates, because he plays a game of hide and seek with his words, and she finds it quite amusing. Her major focuses on applied ethics, insofar, titled her major as Moral Philosophy. Sarah views life as an illusion. The words we speak have no meaning, our identities mean nothing and they most certainly do not define who we are. Essentially we are all basic forms in and of the universe itself. Sarah hopes to focus on either Plato’s Ethics and Epistemology or Existentialism from Sartre’s viewpoints in Graduate School and eventually study<\/span>\u00a0Philosophy at a\u00a0<\/span>Doctorate<\/span>\u00a0Level.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion” Alan Watts<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S. Look out for the yellow void!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Emily Chauvin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Contract Major in Aesthetic Theory and Practice<\/span><\/p>\n

I attend WCSU for Creative Writing and Aesthetics Theory & Practice, which I firmly believe somehow adds up to a future as a sculptor, poet, punk star, and\/or\u00a0mountain woman. My\u00a0favorite materials are broken broken mirrors and riddles, intending to both reflect and confuse the real world with false histories and alternate paradises. I bring all that and more to my role as Social Media Guru in the Philosophy Club, Vice\u00a0President\u00a0of the Black & White Journal for the Arts, and Publicity Chair for The Echo Newspaper.Be it scribbling, tree-hugging, hot-gluing, singing, dancing, or volunteering, I just can\u2019t stop moving to the groove of one billion beautiful people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amanda Vitti<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Contract Major in Philosophy<\/span><\/p>\n

You may be asking yourself, why is that girl holding a fish? Did she wrangle that fish? Did she find it? Did it put up a good fight? Where is she? I will tell you that none of that matters, what matters is that the girl in that picture graduated from Newtown High School and continued her education as a philosophy major here at WCSU, and is the president of the Philosophy Club. By following her passion for asking questions and learning, Amanda found herself in the philosophy department, a place that has become a home away from home. If there is anything that Amanda achieves in this lifetime (besides picking up large, washed up, yellow fin tuna) she hopes that it\u2019s to show people that philosophy is far more accessible and more useful than people seem to believe it to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ryan Zink<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Contract Major in Philosophy<\/span><\/p>\n

I am an explorer, reader and limit pusher. Spend most of my time hunting for new and exciting things. Whether it’s philosophy, skateboarding or traveling, I’m always having fun. Grateful to have such amazing professors here at Western. My\u00a0main ambition is\u00a0more philosophy\/logic in grad school.\u00a0Cheers to the good life! -RZ<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kendyl Harmeling<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

History Major and Philosophy Minor<\/span><\/p>\n

I grew up in Newtown Connecticut; I attended Newtown High School, Newtown Middle School, Reed Intermediate School (Newtown Intermediate School) and Middle Gate Elementary (a deviation from the norm of Newtown —– School). I\u2019m a history major and a philosophy minor, hence my addition to this page, of course. I wasn\u2019t originally going to attend Western Connecticut to earn my Bachelors, but life takes the course it\u2019s going to. After an adjustment period, I settled in here. My department is full of faculty who I wouldn\u2019t dream of missing the opportunity to learn from; the philosophy department as well. Having taken Dr. Dalton\u2019s introduction class and two seminars with himself and President Clark, I was guided to find a passion for philosophy, a love of wisdom, I hadn\u2019t known was inside me. Someday I\u2019d like to be a professor like the wonderful people I interact with here, but life takes the course it\u2019s going to. Maybe I\u2019ll be a lawyer, or a secondary education teacher, or maybe I\u2019ll buy a fishing boat. In any case, Western will have prepared me for the future in ways for which I\u2019ll be eternally grateful. S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard was a suffering soul whose words often strike as ironic as they do somber, but in the regard of looking toward the future he perfectly says what\u2019s on the mind of all college students, if I\u2019m so bold to say it. He endeavored \u201cto find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.\u201d Isn\u2019t that why we\u2019re all here?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chris Michaels<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary Studies Major with concentrations in Philosophy and Psychology<\/span><\/p>\n

Chris grew up in Wilton, CT and the Wilton Public Schools. After pursuing his hobby of photography for a year at the Cleveland Art Institute, he decided move back to Connecticut and study psychology at WCSU in the summer of 2014. Always having an interest in reality, consciousness, and human thought, he was exposed to the philosophy department in his very first class; philosophy in film. Since then, he has expanded from the traditional psychology major to the Interdisciplinary Studies major to include both philosophy and psychology. He seeks to find a useful common ground of these two disciplines and the day to day existence of human thought. This effort is coupled by his fascination with science, technology, and space, as well as the humanistic passions of comedy, film, and television.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.” – George Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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