Hello! My name is Tara and I am a freshman philosophy major from Dallas, Texas. After college I would like to go to graduate school and get my masters in either Philosophy or Psychology. I can speak, other than English, German, French, Swedish and Finnish. Knowing these languages has made my life significantly easier considering my major as well as just communicating with my family and friends who live in non-English speaking countries. My favorite sport is hockey and my favorite team is the Dallas Stars, though I am also a fan of a few European teams as well.
Other than watching hockey, I love reading the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edgar Allan Poe. I am in the process of finishing The Lord of the Rings series as well as watching the films which really do not do the books any justice at all as is usually the case with books that are made into films. I am not much of a television watcher however I do love movies; some of my favorites include The Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Wars, Sleeping Beauty (Disney 1959), Sweeney Todd, and all the Christopher Nolan Batman movies. The most recent film that I have seen was Les Misérables and it was truly an astounding piece of work. I have not seen the Broadway production of it, but it is most definitely on my list of things to do in the future. I saw The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway in 2006 as well as the film adaptation and thought that both were very well done for their respective mediums of art. I am an avid coffee and tea drinker and when I am not doing that and have some free time I can either be found on Facebook or Skyping my boyfriend who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. My favorite holiday is Christmas, but not in a religious sense, more that I enjoy the atmosphere of being with the people who mean the most to me. I play many musical instruments such as the bass guitar, the electric guitar and piano. I could read music before I could read words and I thank both of my grandpas and my uncle for instilling a love for the arts in me from a very young age.
I am really looking forward to this seminar class and this semester as a whole. My classes this semester are a lot more of what I am interested in rather than just required courses that I have no interest in. Other than this seminar class I am taking German, French, History of 19th Century Philosophy, World Civilizations to 1650 and Critical Reading and Writing.
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