The following is an excerpt is from a paper written by one of TECA Vice President Wendy Eisner's undergraduate students, Stacey McCarthy. Wendy is a professor of Psychology at Nassau Community College.

With great insight and self-awareness, Ms. McCarthy describes the personal experience of so many 2e learners.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for teaching such an interesting class. I always knew that I was different in the way that I thought and saw the world, but you really put it into words for me, and I realized that I was not alone. For me, there is no other way to express myself fully without the use of a creative process. Thank you so much for teaching me how to understand myself better...I am not the only one who lives their lives through creative processes. As difficult as it sometimes is and as isolated as I somtimes feel, I would never change who I am. Creativity is Me. ~Excerpt from Creativity and Me (The Psychology of Art [PSY 129]) Fall 2005