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Shayla Whipple

Hometown: Snohomish, WA
Major: English
Minor: Humanities
Year in School: Junior

Writing Strengths: Crippling insecurities
Favorite English 150 Paper: Rhetorical Analysis
Tutoring Specialties: Listening to the student, brainstorming, engaging in meaningful discussion with the student
Languages Spoken: A little Spanish. But just a little.

Favorite Book: East of Eden, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Mary Oliver poetry, My Name is Asher Lev, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Four Quartets
Favorite Quote: "The tree was a tree / with happy leaves, / and I was myself, / and there were stars in the sky / that were also themselves / at the moment / at which moment / my right hand / was holding my left hand / which was holding the tree / which was filled with stars / and the soft rain – / imagine! imagine! / the long and wondrous journeys / still to be ours." - Mary Oliver

Dream Job: Newspaper advice columnist

There are lots of things that I like. I like: self-narration, my USB drive, scarves, leggings, fake glasses, British accents, bagpipes, naps, dresses, bikes, long big necklaces, Oreos with peanut butter, the LRC, rapper feuds, tights, pumpkin & chocolate chip cookies, my iTunes, Wikipedia, new book smells, eyes, glass mugs, black Bic pens, blonde streaks, manual transmissions, early 90s hip-hop, black & white movies, apple rainboots, beautiful sentences, & funny things.