My name is Jem Welch and I am a fourth year student at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU). I am changing my major from Civil Engineering Technologies to New Media Arts (which, naturally is setting me back a little bit) because I realized I can't sit in a office all day and do work...I would die! So, my hope is that branching into New Media, I will have a broader knowledge of the world and how it functions and more availability to go out into the world and "soar." I plan to be a photographer, but what my focus would be, right now, I'm not quite sure.
Just to let you know a little about me, I am the daughter of a accountant and school teacher and the youngest of three. I was born in Antigua where playing soccer and cricket is law :-). When I'm not in class, I just like to be around friends, because I know it won't be too long before one of us suggests something stupid and we all say Yea! to it. I work at Big Thinkers Science Exploration as a scientist who performs experiments for kid's birthday parties, in-class field trips or school assemblies. It's a really fun job because I get to combined two of my favorite things: interesting, need to know information and kid's eagerness to learn.
The mass media I really enjoy is photography, because as they say, "a picture's worth a thousand words." However, it's not always the picture that interest me more as the "thousand words" that are said. I love to hear the opinions of others; it's always intriguing to see the glass from different eyes, whether half full...or half empty...or to see it like me, a container that is twice as large as it needs to be.
One of the best ways to remember me is my name, Jem. My big sister, Jewel, named me from her favorite TV show back in the 80's called Jem and the Holograms. To this day, she says naming me was her greatest accomplishment...I love the theme song so much, it's my ringtone!
~Give Me Room to Stand, And I Will Move the World~
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