Abbys Blog

  Does TV make us smarter?      Before this week, I would have said situationally yes but mostly no. I thought this because most of the time, TV is used to procrastinate or as a distraction, in my case.  Just an excuse to not do what you should be doing or as time to turn your brain off and let someone else think. A few shows that fill this need to not think are Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, and The Great British Baking Show. I feel like these all give very different vibes, but they scratch the itch. So these specific shows aren’t helping me learn anything or make me smarter in the typical sense, but for me, they helped me learn different social things that I didn’t know, Gilmore Girls showed me what a semi-normal college experience looks like, it helped me navigate the important relationships in my life, like how Lorelai does with her mom and Rory with her boyfriends and friends. Sex and the City taught me about adult relationships, about a city I didn’t kno...

Hello! My name is Abby Horter and I am a jazz and contemporary Trainee at the Joffrey Ballet School. I have been a student at NJCU for two years and am working towards a BFA focusing on dance. Outside of school, I enjoy going on long walks, reading, journaling, and watercolor. The reason I took Contemporary Literacies this semester was so I could learn how to connect contemporary cultures and literacies in our world. My first memory of reading was of me sitting in the living room reading these little books called Bob Books. They were books meant to help young children learn to read. They were my favorite books because they were easy to understand and I could finish them quickly which made me feel good about myself because I finished the book. In this specific memory, I remember wanting to show my mom how fast I could read one of these books. You know how most kids want to show you how fast they can do something and they pretend like they did it? Well, this was not me, I read the entire...