Who am I?

            Being a college student is an experience similar to having multiple-personality disorder; managing the many different versions of “You” can be a cumbersome task. Like any other student I have various “voices” for different settings. These different tones and filters are utilized differently in my writing, discussion, and conversations outside of the classroom. The voice I most commonly used in this course was particularly evident in my written assignments, one of academic professionalism. While this voice is efficient for scholarly purposes, it is an extreme version of my “true voice” that happens to be greatly edited and censored. I feel that my writing allows me to best convey my ideas but also creates a false identity of who I am as a person.

            I feel that among the different voices I utilize in LIS 201, I have not been able to effectively display who I am as a person. By only reading and interacting with my pseudo-personas, the image of myself as a student is probably very distorted from the guy I am outside of school. These voices also come in handy for setting boundaries on what information is shared or kept private. While I believe these are subconscious mechanisms, they are something that I would personally like to work on to bridge my many voices into a single voice of versatility.