{"id":5505,"date":"2023-03-01T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T03:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2023-03-01T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T03:18:22","slug":"toby-p-the-hidden-magic-of-overloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2023\/03\/01\/toby-p-the-hidden-magic-of-overloading\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby P: The Hidden Magic of Overloading"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you\u2019re signing up for classes. You\u2019ve got all four mapped out, some for your major, maybe a language, a hub class, maybe you even have one for your minor. You\u2019re all set and ready to go, but then you remember that, as a sophomore and above, you\u2019re allowed to take up to 20 credits per semester. A lot of people wouldn\u2019t give it any second thought and would go ahead with the standard four classes, but I\u2019m here to tell you that there\u2019s hidden magic in overloading.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, you can graduate early if you overload, but I\u2019m not here to talk about that. Instead, I\u2019m here to talk about how taking a class outside of the HUB and the required coursework for your degree can actually help you understand the classes you already have to take even better. Let me explain.<\/span><\/p>\n

This semester, I\u2019m taking a slew of classes, one of which being the beloved FT 310, or Storytelling for Film. It\u2019s a great class, and I\u2019m learning a ton about how to tell an effective story and how to translate that into an effective script. At the same time, I\u2019m taking a class in Wheelock, known as DE 351, or Deaf Literature and Visual Arts. As someone who is hard of hearing, I knew I would be interested in a Deaf Studies class, but I didn\u2019t expect Deaf Literature and Storytelling for Film to mix so beautifully. If you\u2019ve ever seen <\/span>Ratatouille<\/span><\/i>, you know the scene where Remy eats a strawberry and a piece of cheese at the same time, savoring how they blend into perfect harmony and complement each other in all the right ways. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on in my brain in FT 310 and DE 351.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Mondays, I\u2019ll walk into the Data Science building (lucky me!) and learn about the beholder\u2019s share, or how an audience has lots of control over what the world of a book is like, but little control over what the world of an ASL poem is. The next evening, I\u2019ll sit down in CAS and learn about how screenwriters can force a film\u2019s audience to suspend their disbelief by providing a reason why some insane solution is the only one that could possibly work. Together, these individual lessons have combined in my mind, showing me how much power I have as a screenwriter to tell the audience what to believe, but also how I can back off and let the audience fill in the gaps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe you aren\u2019t interested in Deaf Studies, and that\u2019s completely fine! My goal in this short blog post is to encourage you to take another look at the course search before you register for classes. You never know, you might find that taking psychology classes could help you develop better advertising strategies, or that learning about anthropology will help you write better profiles for your journalism classes. It just requires believing in the magic of overloading.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, you\u2019re signing up for classes. You\u2019ve got all four mapped out, some for your major, maybe a language, a hub class, maybe you even have one for your minor. You\u2019re all set and ready to go, but then you remember that, as a sophomore and above, you\u2019re allowed to take up to 20 credits … Continue reading Toby P: The Hidden Magic of Overloading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44618,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}