Hi my name is Lauren Gold, I am a junior here at Ship and my major is Human Communication Studies. I am on the women's basketball team here, if any of you like sports you can come watch us play!!:) I like to do a lot of things, I will try a lot of things once and if I enjoy it then I will do it again. When I was younger about elementary school I did have Yu-Gi-Oh cards but I couldn't really get into it and I did play video games like Pokemon and Zelda. I did enjoy those. I also like Marvel movies like the Avengers that's my favorite. But what interested me into this course is just learning more about Marvel since that is my favorite and other things that I didn't know about this whole course.
My current level of experience reading comics specifically is that I have never read a comic before, so this is completely new to me. I have read one graphic novel and that was only for one of my classes, it was Persepolis. Other than that I have never read a comic or even heard of manga before. I haven't watched anime before because I could never get into it, I did try watching it when I was younger but never really liked it. I did play video games when I was younger like Zelda, James Bond but once I got older I stopped playing. I do enjoy playing a lot of video games though and if I wasn't so busy I would play it a lot more still. I mean I never really had any pre existing attitudes about people who read comics and graphic novels. I would just hear about people going to comic book conventions and things along those lines. But I don't consider myself a reader of these texts. As of right now I don't really have any questions about these texts. I just hope to have fun in this class and learn more about everything in general since I'm not really familiar with any of it.
