{"id":11350,"date":"2022-02-17T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:40:40","slug":"podcastwinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/17\/podcastwinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab a Mic and MAKEYOURSTORY: Purdue Undergrad Wins Podcast Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bridget Arnold, winner of the MakeYourStory narrative podcast contest sponsored by Libraries. Photo courtesy of Bridget Arnold, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Meet Bridget Arnold, the winner of Libraries\u2019 MakeYourStory<\/i><\/strong> narrative podcast contest.<\/strong> She\u2019s blazing her own trail at Purdue University, with majors in Anthropology and Organizational Leadership and minors in Spanish and Design & Innovation. The journey to this unique program of study was not without its stumbles, surprises, or sidetracks (into camper living on a Lake Erie island!), but it led Bridget to channel her many passions and regain her sense of purpose after the COVID-19 pandemic upended her first-year college plans. Listen to the story in Bridget\u2019s own words in her award-winning podcast episode, \u201c<\/span>How Tiny Homes Help Me Explain My Majors<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of her podcasting future, Bridget says, \u201cI do hope to make some more podcasts since it encompasses two things that I love and that I am good at: writing and speaking.\u201d Besides exploring her podcaster potential, Bridget plans to live a life full of travel, adventure, and good stories. \u201cI have lived in Central Indiana my entire life,\u201d she says. \u201cI need to branch out and do some traveling and gain some life experience. Hopefully, my work with the National Parks Service will take me to parks out west, or to areas where I can put my Spanish skills to the test.\u201d After listening to her episode, curious listeners will undoubtedly wonder if her future plans include living in a tiny house. \u201c I would absolutely live in a tiny home again someday,\u201d Bridget says, \u201cbut that is contingent on three criteria: not during the winter, not with another person, and not without a full-time job.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The student podcast contest is part of the <\/span>MakeYourStory<\/span><\/i><\/a> podcast series created by Libraries and the Brian Lamb School of Communication. Following the success of 2020-2021\u2019s <\/span>Diversity and Making<\/span><\/i><\/a> podcast and video series, a collaboration between Libraries and the Asian American and Asian Resource and Cultural Center, the <\/span>MakeYourStory<\/span><\/i> series aims to introduce Purdue students to the beauty of oral storytelling, the craft of writing a compelling narrative, and the tools needed to effectively deliver that narrative through the popular medium of podcasting. The next episode of <\/span>MakeYourStory<\/span><\/i> will be released in late February 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonus Fact:<\/strong> With eight libraries on Purdue\u2019s campus, we asked Bridget if she has any favorite Libraries spaces. \u201cI\u2019m a third or fourth floor of HSSE kind of gal,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s something particularly comforting about being surrounded by books while I\u2019m trying to work. Sometimes, when I need a break, I go up and check out Archives, too.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Meet Bridget Arnold, the winner of Libraries\u2019 MakeYourStory narrative podcast contest. She\u2019s blazing her own trail at Purdue University, with majors in Anthropology and Organizational Leadership and minors in Spanish and Design & Innovation. The journey to this unique program of study was not without its stumbles, surprises, or sidetracks (into camper living on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6988,131,4828,13,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-digital-humanities","category-faculty_staff","category-general","category-services"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-2X4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}