Boise State Graduate Anna Warns
Anna Warns graduated December of
2006 with a major in English Literature. She is currently working on her second
quarter of her Masters degree in Library and Information Sciences at the
University of Washington. She works at the Ada County Library.
Anna says that her major has helped her to be a better writer and communicate
effectively. “When you know how to use language you can use it to
your advantage. That’s helpful! It helps me to be a more well rounded person
in general.”
I asked her what her
best experience as an English major was while attending BSU. “I have many great
experiences. The all-encompassing one would be being the president of the
English Majors Association, which allowed me to just interact with the faculty
and the students in a totally different way. I was so much more invested in the
department after being involved and it just made my experience at BSU.”
Her advice to English majors is to get involved with the department as much as
you can. “Your work as an English major is so solitary that you feel like you
just coming to class, you leave and you do your work on your own, but if you are
getting involved in the department it enriches your experience. If you
can feel invested in what you are doing with four years of your life it makes a
huge difference. My first two years were so-so, and then I got involved and I
got to know people on a different level and that changed it for
me.”
