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Goucher is a second home to many students and alumnae\/i; currently, more than 75 Goucher graduates have returned to work and teach. In this Q&A, Brandon Arvesen \u201904<\/span><\/strong>, visiting instructor in writing studies, reflects on how Goucher has influenced his life, both as a student and as a teacher.<\/p>\n

What made you return to Goucher?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I went here, majored in English and education, and was teaching in Baltimore City for 12 to 13 years. I had always toyed with the idea of teaching college. I thought it would be a cool second act in my professional career. The opportunity to teach one class fell into my lap, and when I came back, I thought, \u201cOh, this would be cool, I\u2019ll get it on my r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and then I can go get a job anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

[When I returned], the campus was so different. Many buildings didn\u2019t exist when I was here. Three dorms have been physically moved across campus. But the students just reminded me of all the friends I had made. It just felt the same. And I thought, \u201cI remember being these kids.\u201d I thought, \u201cIf I\u2019m going to teach college, I\u2019m going to teach here.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite spot on campus?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Honestly, I love Alice\u2019s. What\u2019s interesting about the physical space is that since we\u2019re such a small school, and now that I\u2019ve been here a couple of years, there isn\u2019t a space where I won\u2019t run into students. I\u2019ll walk down those steps and hear \u201cBrandon!\u201d and I love that, because it\u2019s really easy to forget to leave your office if you\u2019re not teaching. Just walking to Alice\u2019s for a coffee, I\u2019ll have seven conversations down Van Meter Highway, and 10 in line for coffee, and another while I\u2019m leaving. It just feels great to be a part of all of that.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s something that most people don\u2019t realize about you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I was a terrible student. A really bad high school student, so much that my parents took me out of public school and put me in a small private school. Then, I was a mediocre private school student, but I had a lot of support from teachers and a lot of pressure from my family. When I came to Goucher in 2000, my mom had always been the threat; she was like, \u201cYou better do your work or…\u201d She wasn\u2019t here, they were three hours away in New Jersey, and I was awful. I didn\u2019t go to class. I forgot assignments were due. I was very concerned about meeting girls, and we\u2019re not a party school, but finding the equivalent of that.<\/p>\n

I graduated and became a teacher, but it took me a while to recover from basically a semester and a half of not knowing how to be a student on my own and not feeling motivated to be one. My students don\u2019t usually know that until I see one of them doing the same things, and I\u2019m like, \u201cListen, I know your tricks, all right? I see what you\u2019re going through,\u201d and I try to share that with them.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the first thing you do when you have free time?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On campus, I have a couch in my office, and if I have finished teaching, I sit on that couch for a minute and just let it settle. Let things be quiet in my day. Then usually, my colleague, Hannah Fenster \u201915<\/span><\/strong>, who\u2019s also an alum, will probably come by, and we\u2019ll collaborate. Might go for a walk and might end up talking and hanging out.<\/p>\n

At home, I write a lot. And it may not sound like free time, but it\u2019s my writing. I could watch Netflix or I could get pages of my book done. It\u2019s a sacrifice. And I have a motorcycle, so I ride that when I can, to have a quiet space that\u2019s only my space. I also have a dog, so I\u2019ll wrestle with him.<\/p>\n

Who at Goucher left the most significant impact on your life?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. La Jerne Cornish \u201983, M.Ed. \u201994, P \u201918<\/span><\/strong>, she\u2019s no longer here, but she was for a long time. She was an education professor. I only took her adolescent development class because there was a girl in there I wanted to talk to and it fulfilled some other requirement. I was like, \u201cOK, I\u2019ll take this class,\u201d and [Cornish] opened my eyes to education. I never saw myself as a teacher and she showed me that I was.<\/p>\n

She was there for me through those four years, she was there for me as a Baltimore City teacher, as a young 20-something White man who came from a farm in New Jersey and was not ready for the experiences of Students of Color in West Baltimore, in East Baltimore, what they\u2019re going through, thinking I can save them. She took me aside and shaped me as an educator even after I graduated, saying, \u201cThe best thing you can do is teach. That\u2019s helping people the most, educate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I was an adjunct here, she vouched for me to be full time and she was one of the people who said, \u201cI taught him how to teach, I know he can do it.\u201d So she\u2019s shaped almost my entire professional life.<\/p>\n

If you could relive one Goucher experience, what would it be?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll do one that\u2019s not going to get me in trouble: I was in a rockabilly band, \u201950s rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, at Goucher with a couple of other students. It was [a genre of ] music that I had no experience with and I was the drummer in the band. It was wild. It was such a strange thing. We played in the Gopher Hole, which was the coffee shop here, and people would come out and none of us thought, \u201cOh, maybe we\u2019ll be famous.\u201d It was so great, so wholesome. We thought we were rebellious and cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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