Junior
Professional writing
and sociology
Daily Lobo: Why did you choose those majors?
Emily Howland-Davis: One, I really like sociology, and the professional writing will help me to write in that professional setting.
DL: Are you going to go for your master's?
EH: Yes.
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DL: What do you plan to use your degree for?
EH: For research - probably at the university level or possibly being a professor and doing research.
DL: What would your dream job be?
EH: My dream job would be able to do religious sociology and religion research at any campus that has a really good comparative religion program.
DL: Do you feel like the professors at UNM are teaching you enough?
EH: Yes, except for the religion part. The University doesn't really offer a really good comparative religion program.
DL: If you decide to become a professor, what would you teach your students?
EH: How to write and how to think and not to necessarily believe everything that you read in textbooks - to think beyond it.
DL: What do you do in your spare time?
EH: I have spare time? I'm not familiar with that topic. I knit a lot.
DL: What do you knit?
EH: Everything. Socks, sweaters, blankets, scarves - whatever.
DL: Tell me about your degree in professional writing.
EH: It's really a degree to help prepare you to write for technical journals, engineering-type subjects, the medical field and the scientific field.
DL: And that's better than
having a degree in creative
writing?
EH: I'm not so good at the creative writing. I'm a much better technical writer and editor - I'm really good at editing.
DL: Since school is almost over, what do you plan to do this summer?
EH: Working and doing research for my sociology honors program.
