Danica+Cantrell

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Hello, my name is Danica Cantrell, and I'm a senior here at MU. I'm from Pottstown, PA, though I was born in Lancaster. I'm an English major and philosophy minor, and this reflects my impractical, idealistic nature. I enjoy reading classic literature (ie Jane Eyre, Gone with the Wind, etc), ancient philosophy (Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle) as well as the Transcendentalists (Emerson and Thoreau). I really enjoy taking lines from literature, poetry or philosophy that express an insight into something I'm going through at the time, or just find profound, and copying them in a little notebook I have. Ironically, our rhetoric book has a line that describes my feeling: "Because literature serves as a storehouse of proverbial wisdom that offers 'glimpses and inklings' of larger truths useful in all those eternally recurring situations, Keneth Burke refers to it as 'equipment for living.'" That is just the sort of thing I seek: finding the tools hidden within books that will equip me for life. I also like listening to music, traveling, walking in nature, and hanging out with my friends.

Because I've been in school for so long I'm really looking forward to the great world that lies ahead. I don't exactly know what I want to do career-wise, but I do have an interest in educational reform. I went to a Waldorf high school, so Waldorf Education really inspires me. I also have an interest in working with images and design, specifically scrapbooking (though it's kind of more like collaging because I use magazine images instead of photos of people I know.) Ideally, I would like to combine those two interests.

I like Fossil, Audrey Hepburn (and Mark Shaw's photography of her!), 1930's and 1940's fashion, mint chocolate chip ice cream, humor, period drama movies and quotes.

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