{"id":30772,"date":"2018-08-22T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/?page_id=30772"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:31:26","slug":"hannah-sorila","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/hannah-sorila\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Sorila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.12.2&#8243; title_font=&#8221;|700||on|||||&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; title_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;off|&#8221; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.12.2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Global Studies major, class of 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current Content Marketing Intern with <a href=\"http:\/\/GoAbroad.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoAbroad.com<\/a> in the Philippines (temporary, May 2018-December 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Complete and proud contradiction (permanent), and therefore lover, and sometimes hater, of living in the question of what comes next<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/thomas-morse-349005-unsplash.jpg&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.12&#8243; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|0|0px|false|false&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.12&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.12.2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>It was freshman year, midnight on a weekday.\u00a0 I receive an email&#8230; &#8220;<em>Did you email Malala&#8217;s father?<\/em>&#8220;&#8211; that&#8217;s all it says.\u00a0 Fury builds up in me and I feel tears come to my eyes.\u00a0 One of my teammates, who lived on the same floor in Ray as me, came bursting into my room asking &#8220;<em>Did you see the email?!?<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 She was frustrated too.\u00a0 Beyond that, we were both in awe and couldn&#8217;t believe that was the response we got in asking for help. A little context:\u00a0 we were completing interviews for a group term project&#8211;my team&#8217;s focus was education, hence the reference to emailing Malala&#8217;s father&#8211;one interview needing to be international, and ours kept falling through.\u00a0 Out of desperation and not knowing how to move forward, we asked tom for some guidance.\u00a0 And his only response was about emailing the father of the girl we were reading about.\u00a0 It seemed unfathomable and so incredibly unhelpful.\u00a0 But, as with many of the frustrations that come with taking a class with tom king, there were many lessons learned.<\/p>\n<p>Throw your net far and wide, you&#8217;ve got nothing to lose.\u00a0 That lesson, although challenging to learn in the moment, is one of the reasons I learned how to use my voice, to reach out and ask questions, and to make things happen.\u00a0 Fast forward to sophomore year; I contacted the photographer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/whatibeproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What I Be project<\/a> (check them out!) the day I saw his work for the first time, and stayed in contact with him until we made it work for him to come to campus the following semester.\u00a0 Without learning that lesson, I may have not even thought it was a possibility to bring something I was passionate about to campus, just because I could.<\/p>\n<p>I can list plenty more examples of how that lesson changed my time at PC, but it continues to be part of who I am, even after having graduated.\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently living in the Philippines (who would have guessed?) interning for a company that could lead to my future career.\u00a0 The confidence I&#8217;ve built since learning to reach as far as I can have led me here.\u00a0 Not only that, but I&#8217;ve pitched proposals for the company to my supervisor and the COO without hesitation.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be meeting with them about my ideas soon, so the outcome is TBD, but the point of the matter is that I&#8217;m fearless in trying, in reaching out.\u00a0 Because really, what do we have to lose?\u00a0 So my advice to you . . . Be frustrated, but don&#8217;t let it settle or cloud your perspective.\u00a0 Take a step back and look at the bigger picture.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be afraid to push back, but don&#8217;t be afraid to be wrong.\u00a0 And mostly, don&#8217;t be afraid to learn and grow and challenge and question everything&#8211;even your own thoughts and assumptions.\u00a0 (Also, don&#8217;t be afraid to befriend tom, he is one of the dearest people in my life, who I carry with me everyday.)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|20.5px|0px|false|false&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_comments admin_label=&#8221;Comments \/ Questions&#8221; show_count=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.12.2&#8243; border_width_all=&#8221;2px&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.12.2&#8243; title_font=&#8221;|700||on|||||&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; title_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;off|&#8221; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.12.2&#8243;] Global Studies major, class of 2017 Current Content Marketing Intern with GoAbroad.com in the Philippines (temporary, May 2018-December 2018) Complete and proud contradiction (permanent), and therefore lover, and sometimes hater, of living in the question of what comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30772","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30772"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30996,"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30772\/revisions\/30996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalteacher.com\/playbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}