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we keep it family
 

Every year we do Feed the First Years, where in the first few weeks before we get a paycheck, all the older  cohorts cook and buy a ton of food for the first years, to welcome them and to help them with the financial burdens of being a grad student. It's always blast.

Definitely! I'm actually in a similar position, funnily enough - I came over from political science, so I have a lot of political texts but am just starting to delve into the new media. It sounds like we have a really similar approach.

short-time lurker here, but I really love hearing folks talk about how they came to comp/rhet. I came from creative writing, and even though I've been doing this for ~2 years during my MFA, I still feel green. I wonder sometimes if that's the nature of comp/rhet: greenness, wide-eyed curiosity, all of us (many from different fields) coming to the table without ego or preconceptions.
 
at my current institution, comp/rhet classes usually involve a rotating food schedule (the program is very small and tight-knit), so in all honesty, I came to comp/rhet because of the food. 

Good morning and congrats to all the TTU admits! My understanding from those in the know is that our department has made offers to five Lit PhDs and five Creative Writing PhDs. Unsure about the number of TCR offers.
 
I hope you will all take advantage of the campus visit! We will be holding a symposium (as I'm sure you know), but please don't feel too pressured by the request that you give a five minute presentation on your research interests. We'll all be around to support you and hey! We're going to have the Letterpress Lab open so you can see the work we do there.  
 
If you're going to be visiting, feel free to send me a message and I can show you around the town outside the campus. I can give you the skinny on the department, show you our offices, etc.
 
So, yes. Welcome!

I was just thinking about that the other day! I was exploring a hashtag campaign, and remarking to myself that social media crazes would be a cool topic to analyze. (Though I shuddered to think about what corporations would do with my research.)
Good luck on your thesis! 

Thank you, and for sure! The big one on my mind right now is my thesis work, which is focused on rhetorical maneuvers/the potential for public argument using hashtag composition (specifically movements like #NotAllMen -> #YesAllWomen). 

Thank you! I'm a little all over the place to be honest, but mainly interested in researching how civic discourse and epistemology operate within virtual communities.