Wild Knights
The University of Bridgeport's English & Professional Writing Blog

Have you ever had an idea? If you are like most people, you probably have had an idea before. In fact, you might even have a number of ideas every day.  Maybe even a large number. Things you think.  Things you notice.  Funny ideas, sad ideas, disturbing ideas, and even ideas about your ideas. If you are like most people, the idea comes and goes, and then that is the lifespan of the idea. If you are like the student writers featured in Groundswell 2026 , however, you do someth

Dr. Fisher plays the marimba The sound of a marimba, how to describe it? It’s like the sound a light rain of marshmallows makes when it falls on an angel’s halo. It’s like the first spring notes of a bird made out of silver. If jellyfish sang opera on the moon, it might sound something like this. Trap a dream inside a hollow golden sphere and then listen to the ringing tones it makes as it bounces around inside. If God has a windchime dangling from the rafters of His front po

Doctor Faustus is having a bad day. The stage lights are glowing in diabolical shades of sulfur and lava. The fog machine has kicked into overdrive. Depending on the production, Beethoven, Nine Inch Nails, or Radiohead is blasting on the speakers. Doctor Faustus begs for his life back, for another chance, for a scintilla of heavenly grace. But Mephistopheles’ cackling laughter echoes through the theater, and now it looks like there is some kind of trapdoor or something, becau

By Janine Oliva Have you seen the movie Moana ? It re-imagines the ancient art of Polynesian wayfinding – and depicts how Polynesia was settled thousands of years ago.  Imagine standing on the deck of a double-hulled canoe, the diamond-filled night sky as your foundation of nature’s map. The sound of the waves lap up against the wooden hulls, the direction of swells also aiding as a compass. Which direction to go?  There are no instruments or maps to tell you where you are, o

By Comie Edmund A positive experience since returning to school at the University of Bridgeport as an adult student completing my nursing prerequisites has been learning to navigate Canvas, the online platform where all my course materials and assignments are organized. After several years away from higher education, I felt unsure about how well I would adjust to academic expectations again. What surprised me was how much the structure of the digital learning environment supp

Professor Donna Oropall Close your eyes.  Take a breath. No, really. Do it right now.  Stop looking at the computer screen for a second.  Close your eyes. And take a breath. Are you done?  Did you do it? If so, you are probably feeling slightly better. Slightly refreshed. You may have experienced a decrease in your cortisol level. You may feel that obsessional thoughts and anxieties that had been closing in on you a few seconds ago suddenly seem less ominous, less formidable.

By Janine Oliva Melia flying Do you remember what it feels like to be 9 years old?  What moments helped teach you about perseverance?  I have a little girl who loves to fly - and she has the pleasure of learning about perseverance at a young age in her life.  Her name is Melia, which translates in Hawaiian to the frangipani flower.  She likes to go by "Me-Me" or "Grace." Grace is her middle name.  Melia is younger sister to Dylan, and even with their 10-year difference in age

By Ashley Cartagena   Here I am wondering what do I do next? I picked Psychology as my major, since it has always piqued my interest. But now I want to help my community. Mental health is so important. I see the need for the Human Services field. Do I switch to Human Services? All these questions whip around my brain while I schedule a call with my advisor. Already anxiety ridden, I see I will be scheduling with someone other than my normal advisor. Still, I made an appointme

Hi folks, we’re back with Carl the Carlson Hall kangaroo to talk about the joy of the season.  WK: Carl, you just finished your first semester at UB as an English major .  How’d it go? Carl: It was great.  I learned a lot.  Did you know that there’s a book called Leaves of Grass ? WK: Isn’t it like poems or something? Carl: It’s a long book of poems by a guy named Walt Whitman, and it actually tasted really good. WK: You ate the book? Carl: My final project was a kind of fo

By Sebastiao Dossantos O ne of the most meaningful experiences I have had since I started studying at the University of Bridgeport happened during the summer semester while I was taking a Microbiology class. At the same time, I was working as a CNA and caring for a patient who had an MRSA infection after having brain surgery. I remember feeling nervous because I did not want to make a mistake, and the patient’s wife did not understand much about the medical field because of h