I believe an introduction is in order...

            Welcome, welcome, welcome! I see you’ve stumbled upon my blog. Come on in! Grab a seat and put your feet up while I tell you a little bit about myself:

My name is Ariana Rahman, and I’m a freshman here at the beautiful Wellesley College. Outside of class, you can find me playing the piano, singing, or acting in a theatrical production. I love watching Downton Abbey and—as you probably already guessed—The Big Bang Theory. I am a huge fan of the humanities, and enjoy immersing myself in different languages and cultures both in and out of the classroom, as well as discussing and debating over literature in my English courses.

In fact, you’re probably wondering what this blog is all about. “The Big Bang!” is where I post comments and thoughts about my first year writing course Alternative Worlds (WRIT 134) here at Swelles. For class, we’ll be reading works of science fiction and studying how they relate to the real world.

Why Alternative Worlds, you ask? One of my favorite classes that I have ever taken was a creative writing course called Found Voices at Dana Hall School with my wonderful teacher Ms. Holstein. There, we learned to create and write stories about ourselves, and about topics that mattered to us. For the most part, the stories I wrote were mostly along the genre of non-fiction (or just barely scratching the surface of fiction). I hadn’t had much experience with science fiction in high school, and I was really curious to try writing about science fiction—maybe even try sketching out a few ideas for a short story one day. So, when I came upon Alternative Worlds, I was ecstatic at the idea of being able to learn from the works of authors who could pen out parallel worlds and realities with ease.

So, here I am, embarking on my quest to learn about the realms of science fiction, and how they relate to everyday life. I hope you will accompany me on my journey.