MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — When Kaity Newmanwalks into Room 202 of the James Union Building on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University, she can't help but smile.
The room feels familiar. Not just because she's taught here this semester, but because it's the same classroom where she sat wide-eyed as an undergraduate student taking Introduction to Philosophy at MTSU more than a decade ago.
"Standing at the front of that room now, where I once sat as a student, it's surreal," said Newman, a new lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. "It feels really good being back on campus."
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This is great to see! I can imagine myself working here as well. I have enjoyed coming back to school so much that I am not ready to graduate this fall. I would like to continue into grad program. I find it so rewarding taking classes now and learning about myself in new ways that are so different than when I was in my 20s.
ReplyDeleteWhen I left Vandy back in the day they told me they never hire their own graduates... but they did hire me for a stint in the early '00s. You can go home again, Thomas Wolfe... but as Heraclitus said of the river, it's changed and so are you. Still, it's nice to come full circle.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be very interesting to see what classes she will teach. I need a couple more credits to finish my philosophy degree. Maybe I will end up in her class.
ReplyDeleteShe'll be doing Philosophy and Film in the Spring.
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