WithLove by Tate

  • Friday, 7/11/25

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    Today I continue doing preliminary research and reading for my honors thesis on transfer students. Right now I’m working on my first heading Transfer Student Identity and it entails essentially reading and understanding the last fourty years of books, articles, and statistics on transfer students and community colleges. So what have I learned so far? Well transfer…

  • Recent Listenings

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    I have been listening to so much music these past three weeks. It’s kind of hard to just pick out a few. There have been less brainworms but more a constant stream of listening like I can’t stand silence. A lot of hype songs, for sure, I like to study hard, but I think the…

  • Tuesday, 7/29/25

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    Hi again. God, it feels like Friday to me. I haven’t been able to concentrate on my work as well as usual today. It’s alright, I think I’ll just listen to my body and take today easy and get back to it tomorrow.  Research and career developments abound!  After reaching out (repeatedly, admittedly) to the…

  • Blog Post #3 – 7/28/25

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    Hi it’s me again, love. I was thinking more about the reason I call you love. I think that many, at least in our localized Western, english-speaking culture, feel that ‘love’ is just too familiar for most folks’ taste. It’s too intimate. I think that maybe love is easier to interpret, and far easier than…

  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – July 2025

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    This is the first song I learned that I’m proud enough to record. It took me a couple days to learn, and now I get to use it as one of the songs I can practice with daily to improve my piano ability! Progress alright!

  • Blog Post #2 – 7/18/25

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    Hello my love,  Today was a good week. I started the week off by traveling to Yosemite Sunday-Monday with my partner Jasmine, it was absolutely wonderful. I had Summer classes, which were fine, and I also had research for all three of my research positions. For SciTrek I made ~56 cause and effect statements and…

  • Wednesday, 7/16/25

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    Another day of Summer, another insanely productive research day. I went to the library again at 8am and was able to bang out work all the way until 7:30pm (had a class at 3pm but otherwise)! I worked in the morning on the Transfer Honors Thesis, then in the afternoon I spent a couple of…

  • CITI Qualitative Training Review

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    Today I completed the CITI qualitative training workshop, in order to gain more proficiency with qualitative analysis and the methods of qualitative designs. While I took the workshop I took notes in order to keep them close but also with the intention of making some amount of this information a little more open access. If…

  • Lit Review #1

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    Hello! For my first literature review here, I’ll be reviewing Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth by Tara J. Yosso. Please enjoy! This article by Tara J. Yosso (2005) attempts to relate the concept of cultural capital to a new concept known as community cultural wealth, by integrating…

  • Recent Listenings

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    I want to share a couple of the songs that have been complete brainworms recently. Because I’m Tate I’ll also say a sentence about them talking about how much I like them or why I might resonate with them. Songs: Crack Rock – Frank Ocean Be Sweet – Japanese BreakfastWoods – Mac Miller