Hello! I’m Matt Craft, Man Myth Legend (MML), and I’m a
good ol’ Southern boy hailing from the Nashville area. I am a history major and a creative writing
minor here at Belmont University. Amazingly, I have been here for five years,
since the 2008 fall semester. So, yes, I
was a Bruin – a baby bruin, rather a cub that is – when President Barack Obama
came to the presidential debate held here at the Curb Event Center. But no. I
wasn’t there when the Secret Service swarmed everywhere and sealed campus off. It
was during fall break that semester, so I went home.
Anywho, back to my life’s story: I am a weary veteran of upper-level history
courses at Belmont, most notably Dr. Jackson’s HIS 3050 – Writing History, and
I am currently enduring the chaotic chronicles presented in Dr. Bison’s HIS
4670 – The Tudor Monarchy, 1485-1603.
I’ve
always liked history; when I was younger, I was fascinated by the past and
loved to imagine myself in the past. But I wasn’t the history and geography
whiz that I am today until middle school. I distinctly remember receiving a
100% on a European geography quiz in sixth grade. As for creative writing, I’ve always been
told and read stories, and I started writing my own stories when I was nine
years old. I’ve also written poetry since 2008.
Though
not my standard genre, my article “Inequality in Education and Beyond” was
published in the April 2012 issue of Breaking
Ground, a Tennessee-wide disabilities council review. Similarly, I have
submitted a few of my innumerable stories and poetry, such as “Parable on Kings
Street,” “Megan,” and “Mattman Forever,” to the Belmont Literary Journal.
I
have a mild disability, but that has never stopped me and never will.
So,
that’s my story. Its last chapter has yet to be written. And until that time, if
“a single will fills both of us,” I’ll be your Danteish guide, your insider on
this “steep and savage path,”[1] on
this young blog for Belmont’s History Department – I’ll be your Historical
Investigator (HI). Peace, Traveler!
Matt Craft, MML, HI
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