Hey, how's it going?
Hi Richelle, I'm pretty good, how about yourself?
Doing pretty well. Just at play rehearsal right now and thought it was a good time to chat with people
Nice, it's always a great time to chat! What kind of play are you rehearsing for? Is it for school or a community theatre?
It's community theatre. I'm not acting in it, but I'm the dramaturg, so I sit in a couple times a week just in case they need me
Oh wow, that's fancy. I had to look up dramaturg, I guess I don't know as much about theatre as I thought! Do you enjoy watching Broadway performances?
no, you're fine. Most theatre people don't even know what dramaturgy is. I absolutely love broadway shows, but I don't have money to go T-T I did go to London on a theatre study abroad last spring though, and I saw lots of shows there
Ooh that sounds like a ton of fun! My sister did a study abroad in London, and my mom loves broadway shows. I have seen Wicked twice, both times I thought it was just absolutely incredible. It stinks that it is so far away, and movies just don't quite do it justice, there is something magical about the theatre
Oh, I saw in off-broadway production. Really, it's amazing what they can do in theatre these days. It just excites me! And I agree. I love movies so much, but there is a magic to love theatre Live *
Absolutely. Do you see theatre as a career path or just something that you feel passionate about?
im Doing it as a career. I want to be a dramaturg for a regional theatre after I graduate Maybe freelance as well. But it's definitely my greatest passion. I absolutely adore it, and if I can make a career out of it, I would be living my dream What about you? What are you passionate about?
How neat! That's pretty amazing that you are already working towards that goal, I hope it works out! I am a pretty big nerd, I love Math and Computer Science, so I can geek out about either of those pretty hard.
That's really amazing! I wish I was better at those things -_-
That's one of my big draws towards this project, I think the idea of building a social bot is such a challenging project but yet also so impactful
What do you want to do as a career?
I think our education does a poor job at teaching everyone how Math really works, we make people memorize tons of equations and it feels very rote. I'm still trying to figure that out actually... I graduate in April and I do have a job lined up in Salt Lake, but I'm not sure if it's the dream job or not
It's good that you have something lined up at least. I'm one of those people that like security and preparation. Probably slightly in the wrong career path for that, but it's nice to have at least a start somewhere, and once you know what you want you can easily make a plan from where you are
Absolutely, it's daunting not knowing what the future holds, so at least I have some of it figured out. Plus security is great for my family, I have a wife and a 1 month old daughter
So I'm interested now, because I could agree with the math education. How would you like to see it taught?
Haha that is a great question, and a really tough one. I think from early on students in Math should be allowed a little more exploration. Other sciences often have fun or cool experiments where students can just play around and observe neat things, and then they come back to talk about theories and principles that apply to those experiments You never see something like that in a Math class, which I admit can be tough because it can be very theoretical, but you can still design ways for students to try and figure things out on their own.
Interesting. How would you do that with math? (This is coming from someone who stinks at math and has only ever been taught in memorization and such, I'm curious how that could be done)
But it makes sense that lots of people do not like math, and/or feel they are not very good at math, because all they've done all their lives is just memorize equations
I definitely agree with that I mean, it's the biggest reason I hate math is memorizing the equations
I think the easiest applications of it is in Geometry, playing with shapes. Instead of asking students to memorize equations to calculate areas, volumes, perimeters, angles, etc. You could enable students the opportunity to play with different shapes And try and have the students discover these formulas, after playing with different types of triangles, see if students can come up with the fact that the area of a triangle is one-half multiplied by the base, and multiplied by the height. Sorry I know that's probably a huge information overload, but it's such a huge topic that I think is essential for our education system to figure out
I think I could see something like that No, I like it, I think it makes sense People learn best by discovering the answers themselves, right?
And it may be harder to find ways to do that for other types of Math, but it would give students ownership over their learning.
So having more opportunities like that, especially in grade school settings, could produce some amazing results
Absolutely! Imagine how a theatre class would be if nobody ever got to act, you just memorized scripts and memorized theatre terms and had to recite them for tests, no action. What a dull place I imagine that would be!
=_= ugh, I had a little bit of that in middle school. It was a big reason why I never wanted to do theatre classes until I got to college I learned everything from experiencing it in community theatre, so then to be drilled on the same technical terms over and over was grating and useless
Yeah that sounds like no fun. So you've been doing theatre for quite a while it sounds like, do you have a favorite play? Maybe a favorite that you like to watch, and a favorite that you have been in?
Oh man, I stink at favorites. My favorite all time musical,though, is always Into the Woods. Although, I really really like Hamilton too. I don't know that I could really pick one favorite thing I've been in or watched. There are so many incredible plays, and the genres differ so widely
Fair enough, it is hard to pin down favorites.  I saw the movie for Into the Woods, had not heard of it before then.
One of the newer plays I've seen though is called "The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Nighttime" it's based off of a book, actually, and it's abuout an autistic boy
Oh really? I bet that would be great. Speaking of autism, have you ever seen Temple Grandin or Wonder?
The movie for Into the Woods is pretty good, but they take out a lot of the meaty discussion points I've seen Wonder, the one with the boy with the facial impairments, right?
Yep, I see it as a related topic, but it was an amazing movie. It was very inspiring. Anyways Richelee, sorry to cut you off, but I have been procrastinating my homework for long enough, I really ought to be going now.
Fair enough. Hope it goes well
This chat system is highly addictive. It was an absolute pleasure getting to chat with you, I hope things go well for you!
Good luck with the homework!
Thank you! Goodbye