All About Me . . .

     My name is Trista Altstadt. I have wanted to be a teacher for about as long as I can remember, but one thing about my dream has changed. Originally, I wanted to teach fourth grade, but somewhere along the line, I realized that I would miss the interaction with the older students who I could have more in depth conversations with about literature and life in general. At this point, I made the decision to switch to Secondary Education and focus on English Education.

Campus Involvement at TCNJ

Member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society

Member of Golden Key Honor Society

Member of Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society

Master Tutor at The College of New Jersey Tutoring Center

S.W.A.T. (Students Writing and Talking in classrooms) Team Coordinator for the Freshman Writing Program at The College of New Jersey

W.I.L.L. (Women in Learning and Leadership)

Other Interests

Hiking

Kayaking

Traveling

Creative Writing

My Favorite Books

Ovid's Metamorphoses

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Series by Ann Brashares

Paradise Lost by John Milton

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

What’s Next

     Graduation with a Bachelor’s Degree in English Secondary Education with a concentration in Classics and Early Modern European Literature with a Women’s and Gender Studies Minor.

Travel

     I traveled to England and Scotland in the Summer 2006 and visited many of the great places described in literature including Shakespeare’s birthplace, the home of the Bronte Sisters, Whitby where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, and the great cities of London, England and Edinburgh, Scotland.

      I have traveled out to the Western United States and up and down the East Coast several times. One of my life’s goals is to visit all fifty states. As of now, sixteen down, thirty four to go.