Jon Gorman Year: 2nd year in Psy.D. program. Class of 2012.
Major: Clinical Psychology
Area of special interest: nonfiction
Where you’re from: Randolph, NJ Favorite author/book/poem: I really like Dave Eggers, J.D. Salinger, Malcolm Gladwell, and Anthony Bourdain, just to name a few. Music you like: A wide range, from Norwegian Indie Pop (e.g. Kings of Convenience) to 1930s Mississippi Delta Blues (Robert Johnson) to female vocal jazz (Sarah Vaughan) to groovy-jazzy-soul instrumental jams (e.g. Soulive) to the cool jazz from the west coast down to Brazilian bossa nova (Stan Getz). And some Zeppelin now and then. Favorite TV show: mostly the food network: Tyler’s Ultimate, Boy Meets Grill, Barefoot Contessa, and Michael Chiarello. But also 24, Lost, and Seinfeld. Best advice on writing you’ve ever received: After you write a draft, take out a new piece of paper (or a new MS Word file) and write out your thoughts in the order that they make sense to you. You can do this in sentences or bullets. Essentially, you are making an outline of what you’ve already written, but the key is to not look at your draft. Write the outline as if your audience is someone you meet in an elevator and you only have two minutes to explain your paper to this person before you get off at your floor. This will help you to realize what you consider the most essential points of your paper and the points that are not so important. Keeping your audience in mind (your elevator friend), you will realize which parts may need more careful explanation, and which sections may not need as much explaining. When you finish your outline, compare it to the draft that you’ve already written and see if you have things in the same order, and if the draft you’ve written reflects what you think are the most important points. The most interesting place I’ve seen: The summer before my senior year in high school, I travelled through Tibet for six weeks. I talked to Tibetan monks in monasteries, drank yak butter tea, and hiked through the Himalayas. It’s a totally different world, nothing like anything I’ve ever seen anywhere else. |
