Selfie Love

As you all may or may not know the Penn Graduate School of Education will have a new Dean this upcoming December. To celebrate her arrival to the school, she came to Penn on Thursday to take pictures around campus. One of the awesome parts about being a Graduate Assistant is that you are able to find out wonderful perks so guess who got to take pictures with the Dean? I did. Although there were other Graduate Assistant present in the pictures, I was so grateful to be able to be one of the first students to take a picture.

Prior to taking pictures with Pam, myself and three of the other Graduate Assistants also took pictures in the form of selfies. I have found that selfies allow you the benefit of remembering moments with those you care about and also allows you to participate in the shared memory because you are a part of the photo. Our photo is provided below. Don't we look amazing? Every time I look at that picture I start singing "We are family get up everybody and sing!" by Sister Sledge.

After taking group photos with Pam, I decided to ask a very important question to her. " Do you mind taking a selfie with us?" Ironically Pam agreed and she was very enthusiastic about it. As an amateur selfie photographer I took the same photo about 3 times but in the end we got the perfect shot. Below you will see a picture of Amanda, Felix, Alex, Zakiya, Pam (the new Dean), and I. After, hearing Pam agree to take a selfie with my I am now on a quest to document my time her in Philly and at Penn GSE through the process of taking selfies. I am very excited and I look forward to sharing my selfies with you in the future.