Ms. Lindsey Newman is Determined to Inspire

Ms. Lindsey Newman is Determined to Inspire

By Wesley Miller, ENGL 336

                Ms. Lindsey Newman is an typical college student with a noble dream. Attending Frostburg as a  junior English Major with a literature concentration, Ms. Newman hails from Maryland. Close to her family, she maintains the hallmarks of a college student of her era – a questionably unhealthy love for Netflix, a love for playing guitar, and a deep appreciation of Brad Paisley.
                “I’m not very interesting,” she confesses with a subtle bashfulness. Yet it becomes clear while her hobbies are not unusual or striking, she is in fact quite interesting.
                Appearing somewhat reserved and quiet, one cannot help but acknowledge the quiet confidence present in her speech and demeanor when it comes to her future. Her passion for English and writing is not entirely coincidental. Ms. Newman recalls a certain “Mrs. Watters” – an English teacher she had for three of the four years she attended high school.  She claims Mrs. Watters instilled in her a love for some of the classics of the not-so-distant past, such as S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and various poems by Walt Whitman. Ms. Newman also discovered her talent and gift for writing in Mrs. Watter’s class. Before Mrs. Watters enlightened her to the soul warming experiences of literature and compisition, Ms. Newman had very different plans.
               “I wanted to be a lawyer when I was younger,” she says surprisingly with a half smile. Her family has always supported her writing, reminding her of her natural talent for it and pushing her. Her father even went so far as to recruit her to assist in a business venture, not as much requesting her help as insisting on it. As such, she finds that she tends to excel at professional writing.

                                                   (pictured above, Ms. Lindsey Newman)

                Currently, Ms. Newman’s goal is to be a teacher, a decision very largely influenced by Mrs. Watters.
               “I want to inspire my students, like [Mrs. Watters] did for me,” she says. She confesses this is perhaps the only reason she’s taking the literature focus of her English major. “It’s sometimes a bit boring, and nobody really loves it [all of the time],” but it is a largely helpful element to becoming a teacher in that realm. Ms. Newman’s drive and motivation for her goal is inspiring to observe, and it’s hard not to appreciate her sincerity. For her sake and her future students', one cannot help but hope she finds success in all that she does.