Time transcripts of Adam_lighter

[00:00:00:00]	Interviewer: Ok. Thanks for meeting with me today. You can start with just giving me

[00:00:06:03]	 your name and just a little brief background about yourself if you want to.

[00:00:10:06]	 -Ok. I'm Adam. I'm 20 years old, and I'm a second year student at Ohio State.

[00:00:15:23]	I'm studying, my major is Industrial Systems Engineering. I entered into 

[00:00:22:18]	 the college of Engineering and I just recently applied to the major.

[00:00:25:23]	 I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio. I went to Sycamore High School, and..yeah.

[00:00:32:09]	Do you have an internship or anything  you're doing this summer?

[00:00:34:28]	Yeah I'm currently a co-op for a company in Columbus and I'm 

[00:00:40:28]	going to continue here this summer. [ Ok, Well- ] It's my first internship. 

[00:00:44:11]	Good luck with that. I am going to ask you a few questions pertaining to way back when

[00:00:51:23]	when you learned to read or write. And if you can start with any stories that stand out

[00:00:57:28]	 in your mind, and before you start I'll ask you, what, are you the oldest, middle, youngest child?

[00:01:03:05]	I'm the youngest of three kids. I got a sister. She's the oldest. And my brother is the middle child.

[00:01:10:07]	And how much older are they than you? 

[00:01:12:10]	I'm 20. My brother is now 23, and my sister's 25. So three years older and five years older.

[00:01:18:18]	Ok, so do you have any particular memories that either involved them or not

[00:01:25:23]	they don't have to involve your brother or sister, but learning to read?

[00:01:29:08]	Well my sister, before I went bed would normally read this one same book.

[00:01:35:02]	It's called "Going Once, Going Twice, Going Chicken Soup With Rice". [ Interviewer Laughs ]

[00:01:42:02]	And that was our favorite, she would always read it to me before I went to bed. 

[00:01:44:10]	Do you remember who the author was of that? -I don't.

[00:01:46:21]	 I've never heard of it before. I was really little so I don't really remember. [ Ok. ]

[00:01:51:20]	 It could have been Dr. Seuss, because we really liked Dr. Seuss.

[00:01:53:29]	We were also, me and my sister were always the first ones up, probably like 8 in the morning

[00:01:58:12]	especially on the weekends [ Wow. ] I didn't sleep much when I was little.

[00:02:01:14]	I was gonna say, what little kid is up at 8am on the weekends?

[00:02:05:12]	She would come get me when I was in the crib and even when I got my big boy bed she

[00:02:10:09]	would come get me out of my bed and you know she would read Dr. Seuss to me a lot of times 

[00:02:13:28]	in the mornings and you know, or let me go sit front of a TV before my parents woke up.

[00:02:17:28]	Ok. Did that encourage you to read at all? Did that make you want to learn to read?

[00:02:24:25]	Probably. I really liked those stories so I mean I definitely wanted to read them for myself 

[00:02:30:08]	and you know, learn for myself rather than just being at the mercy of everyone else teaching me

[00:02:35:04]	Which, you know, I did like bonding with my parents and my sister reading to me but

[00:02:39:16]	I also wanted to sort of explore it for myself. So probably, definitely encouragement.

[00:02:44:05]	Do you remember first learning to read from your parents or was it something

[00:02:50:02]	that you started learning when you were in pre-school? 

[00:02:52:15]	I think my parents sort of accelerated it a little bit, but when I first got into pre-school

[00:02:57:14]	 that's where it really, you know, started pounding. They weren't, parents were necessarily

[00:03:02:03]	were trying to teach me when I was one, or one and a half [ Right ] like I've seen, but you know

[00:03:06:29]	when I got into pre-school they definitely I think helped me definitely with stuff I brought home

[00:03:10:24]	and my colorings and all that you do in pre-school but probably mostly preschool and then

[00:03:16:07]	 when I entered kindergarten was probably my most vivid memories of learning how to read.

[00:03:21:20]	Ok. And, let me think, with writing was it a similar situation?

[00:03:30:08]	Like you started learning when you came to school? Or did you start scribbling at home at all?

[00:03:37:05]	Yeah, well I think all little kids do some colorings. I think often times there is a lot

[00:03:42:29]	words involved with that. But I think a lot of it was pre-school, you know,

[00:03:46:14]	I started to learn how to write my name [ Mmhm ] write sentences about what I did

[00:03:52:29]	 with my parents or on the weekends. And my parents definitely encouraged it.

[00:03:56:15]	 But I think a lot of it, same with reading, started in pre-school.

[00:04:00:07]	 -Right. And do you have, like, you said with reading you have like vivid memories of your

[00:04:06:02]	sister reading to you in the mornings. Did she help you out with writing at all or was

[00:04:11:13]	it mostly just reading that you have memories with her? 

[00:04:13:29]	My sister's definitely the writer and the creative mind sorta in my family so when I was little 

[00:04:19:04]	she did. Like when I started learning cursive she definitely helped me with that, when I was

[00:04:23:26]	like in second or third grade, and when I was little and I did my colorings, you know

[00:04:29:12]	 she would help me draw and help me write my name and things like that.

[00:04:34:08]	 Was cursive something that was stressed when you were growing up in school?

[00:04:38:25]	In my elementary school it it was a really big deal. They taught to I think third grade

[00:04:43:24]	and it was either, i think maybe fifth grade too, and you know, they really stressed the 

[00:04:48:29]	importance of you know, when, in high school and junior high you're definitely going to

[00:04:53:02]	 learn how to write in cursive. It didn't really turn out [ Yeah- ] so much that way.

[00:04:56:23]	 I think it's definitely a good skill to have 'cause a lot of people do write in cursive.

[00:05:00:27]	Like my grandma always wrote letters to me in cursive, so I think it was good that I learned it,

[00:05:05:29]	it's good for signing names but I think it's not as prevalant as I think all the kids thought it was 

[00:05:10:16]	going to be, 'cause they stressed really hard to us and I tried really hard to learn it, and I did.

[00:05:14:23]	Yeah I remember that stressed me out a lot in elementary school just 'cause they had certain

[00:05:21:12]	 strokes they want you to do. There's certain ways they can tell that 

[00:05:24:09]	you're not doing it right and mark off. [ It was very instructional. ] And it didn't really seem

[00:05:27:14]	to pay off very much, I mean I know you need to learn how to read cursive

[00:05:32:18]	writing but I think [ You don't necessarily.. ] it's kind of a dying thing.

[00:05:36:26]	Like maybe fifty years it was more important than I think it's now with like

[00:05:40:24]	all our technology and everything else people don't really write. 

[00:05:43:29]	That's true, everything on the computer that we use is definitely in print and I think most 

[00:05:48:06]	people do use print these days. -Ok, and lastly

[00:05:52:19]	do you have, you know, any last little stories or tidbits? You know, it can be

[00:05:56:19]	anything relating to reading or writing just like little memories that you have.

[00:06:00:10]	Well in kindergarten I really remember that there would be like a word of the day, you know

[00:06:04:28]	they would teach us all of its uses. Like I even remember my teacher

[00:06:08:10]	telling us all about the word 'the' and for a couple hours we just learned all about 'the'

[00:06:12:16]	you know, we wrote it a lot. We learned how to use it in sentences. We wrote 

[00:06:16:29]	it in sentences. I really remember that but [ The! ] the words-Right!

[00:06:20:24]	It seems so simple now but, you know, someone has to teach you how to properly use it.

[00:06:24:21]	But I do remember that in kindergarten.

[00:06:27:16]	Alright, well if there's nothing else, I don't think, is there?

[00:06:32:14]	Any last things? Alright well thank you for meeting with me and 

[00:06:36:14]	I really appreciate you taking time out of your schedule, your engineering schedule,

[00:06:41:21]	and good luck with your internship. -Thanks, Michalea,