Hi!
My name is Morgan Alonso and I am a member of the Princeton University class of 2008. I am currently living in a dorm room in the fabulous Butler College in Princeton, New Jersey; however, my true home is in Miami, Florida, where I will be returning in less than two weeks. The weather here has been much too cold and gray, and I am looking forward to get home to warm, blue skies. I absolutely LOVE the sun and can’t wait to go to the beach. I attended Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove, which as students love to boast, though the administration may not, was the site of the movie Wild Things and was also the location for an episode of CSI Miami. Wanting to be in the sun every minute possible, I swam and played water polo for nine years. This year I decided to change things up a bit and halfway through the season joined the crew team.
I have always been interested in art, and in high school took a class on art history. I was fascinated when I visited museums in Europe at how much I was able to recognize, and I impressed my family with interesting facts about the paintings and the artists who created them. My class spent so much time on ancient art, however, that we barely glossed over the works of the 19th and 20th centuries. In hopes of learning more about these artistic periods, I signed up for WRI 152: Impressionism and the Making of Modern Art. The topic for this research paper branched from my own experience with photography, which I took for three years. I expected to see that Degas used photography a great deal in making his paintings and was shocked to discover that he actually did not. However, while Degas rejected photography quickly, I believe photography is a fascinating medium that will continue to develop as a form of art. I hope you all enjoyed the site and learned something new.
Relish the sun, savor good food, and love your life!
