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Hi there, I’m Annie!

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Hello everyone! My name is Annie, and it is so nice to meet you all! I am in my last year of college (sobs) and I’ll be graduating in the upcoming spring semester. I am majoring in both English and Journalism, with an emphasis in Public Relations, with an Honors minor in Interdisciplinary Studies. I am also, as Professor Pressman knows quite well by now, the president of SDSU’s Color Guard & Aztec Winter Guard! It is my third season spinning with them, and my seventh year partaking in this wonderful, crazy sport that I love so much.

2024 program, “Becoming You”
2025 program, “Unholy Unchained”
My first year on the Fall Guard! Leading the first Warrior Walk with our Fall Guard manager, AJ.

In my last class with Professor Pressman, I was able to combine my passion for color guard with the foundational knowledge we gained in the Digital Humanities class she taught last spring. Never did I think I would combine color guard and academia, but I had so much fun with it! Color guard, as a performing art, is a storytelling method in its own right. The performers can tell the story of going through life and coming into your own person to covered piano music of One Direction’s “Story of My Life” (like our 2024 program, Becoming You), or tell the story of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world devoid of society escaping from captors to music from Sam Smith’s “Unholy” and 2WEI’S “Survivor” (from our 2025 program, Unholy Unchained).

Though our competitive winter season has yet to start, I am so excited to see what our coaches have in store for us, yet saddened for my last season of winter guard as I will age out this year. I can only hope that my last season with the AWG will bring us to the finals round at the University of Dayton Arena (my biggest dream ever!!).

I’m not really sure how to end this post, so I guess I’ll end it off with my favorite English/Literature interests—I love fantasy (yes, especially mermaid fantasy), and I also love dystopian or apocalyptic fiction. My favorite mermaid novel I’ve read is Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly, and, taking a cue from Gale’s post, my mermaid tail would be a silvery-blue color! I look forward to further meeting and interacting with you all, and I’m excited to see what we’ll learn in this class!