708: On Becoming: The Art and Craft of Personal Storytelling (Ep 7: Robes) with Andrew Callery
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In this episode, Ethan Sawyer and guest Andrew Callery discuss the art of personal storytelling through student essays, focusing on the significance of different aspects of identity revealed in writing.
Hi, friends, and welcome back to our series, "On Becoming: The Art and Craft of Personal Storytelling." In this series, we take a close look at personal essays written by real students, talking about why we love them, what makes them work, and how they came to be. In this episode, we share an essay that begins: "Robes are the textile version of comfort food; they're my chicken noodle soup." And it is indeed about the different robes the student wears and how each one reveals a different aspect of who the author is. I'm joined today by Andrew Callery, a college counselor at Detroit Country Day School who aside from his work helping his students tell their stories has, for the past 9 years, in his free time volunteered in our Matchlighters Scholars Program , where we pair high-achieving, low-income students with amazing counselors for 10 hours of free one-on-one support. If you are a high-achieving low-income student applying to college this year or are a counselor interested in volunteering, we'd love to have you. In today's episode, Andrew and I get into: Where this idea came from in the first place How the student chose which different sides of herself to focus on How students…
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