The purpose of this paperis to examine what being “connected” with others, or not, means. The theme for this course has been about connection, and this project is meant to serve as the capstone to this theme. By writing, speaking, and reflectively considering what it means to be connected with others, we might imagine more helpful ways of actually being more closely connected with others. This project might open a window into your, and your fellow classmates’, experiences. The style of this project will be written in an autoethnographic manner (based on 1stperson experiences, which, then, might be extrapolated out more broadly) as to elicit the writer as an expert of her/his own lived experiences.