I am having a positive experience with this project (in spite of my slow internet connection problems). Initially, I was not terribly in love with our group's topic. It seemed interesting but I didn't necessarily feel a connection. It was just like an intriguing story but not one that I was drawn towards (or could see myself forcing out 5 pages about).
After some time, we met again together and collectively realized it was not working. We decided to reexamine what made us feel passionate in the first place and re-commit to a topic that better fit all of our expertises.
It's still not perfect but at least it's something. We all will discuss under-representation from the lenses of each of our disciplines. My section will focus more on the problem with underpaid appointments and unpaid internships and how they (in my opinion) overwhelmingly hinder poorer, people of color from entering into the library science field.
We shall see what happens.
This is a space where UIUC SPI participants in the Summer 2013 Research Methods and Writing Seminar engage each other as researchers, intellectuals and members of a cross disciplinary knowledge producing community.
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