Jaylah Bennett, Test Post/Get-to-Know-You

Ello! My name is Jaylah Bennett, I’m a potential music/business administration double major and am big

into performing arts among other things. As such, I have lots of interest and experience in performance and technical aspects of productions (albeit stage and not movie, but relevant knowledge still transfers). I also love movies, though I’m more of a passive (and occasionally mildly analytical) viewer. I put this colloquium as one of my first choice options because I have always had a fascination with Greek history and especially their mythology. I realize this is mostly Roman, and though I have very limited knowledge about Roman history/mythology, I am excited to learn about it!

The movie genres I typically enjoy are action, comedy (but usually only paired with another genre— most modern lone comedy relies too much on secondhand embarrassment), fantasy, fiction, and good book-to-movie adaptions. I love something engaging, thrilling and/or personal— and I’ve always loved fiction and fantasy books, so the latter three cater to that side of me. Musicals are also a huge portion of my watch repertoire, since I obviously have a great affinity for music and musical theatre. I absolutely cannot stand horror movies and almost every Halloween-related movie, save Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown (because I am the biggest scaredy cat you’ll ever meet), terrible adaptions of books (which seems pretty self-explanatory), and old Westerns (mostly because they’re cheesy, and partially because my dad has made me watch so many because he used to do re-enactments).

Thanks for reading if you made it all the way through! I am looking forward to learning and growing with all of you, and to delving into the ancient world!