Student Scholar Spotlight – Sophia Milen
Student Scholar Spotlight – Sophia Milen
Featured student work during their time as a college scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Sophia Milen
My program of study is “Social Media and Political Science.” When I was graduating high school, one of the questionnaires that my school asked me to fill out was titled “Your Future.” The final question asked me: What is your dream job? I remember sitting in my English class staring at this question. After some time, I wrote down “Social Media Specialist in the White House Office.”
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the intersection of social media and politics has fascinated me. I was destined for a Model UN conference in high school, only for it to be delayed for a week due to a sickness, then for it to be postponed until further notice due to an epidemic, and finally canceled, due to a pandemic. Guess how I found out that it was canceled? Through an Instagram post, published by the host organization.
Then, for the following eight months, I was pushed to learn online, communicate online, and watch politics online. In becoming intimate with the political landscape on social media, I saw that these two were inextricably connected and were begging to be understood. Thus, with the ever-increasing number of people online combined with the rising percentage of politically active citizens, I knew I had to studythis combination of subjects.