Brianna Adu-Kyei                                Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Senior Project Critical Reflection                        Senior Project Experience

Critical Reflection #3: Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question?

Essential Question:  How can I share my excitement about learning with a wider audience (through podcasting)?

To sum up what I learned, I realized that for me to communicate, I need to not be speaking into a vacuum. With my first podcast, I did do an interview section near the end, but I didn’t really hit my stride until the second podcast, where I had a lot more fun with a co-host (topic levity taken into account). My essential question has ended up changing a bit though, since it’s no longer a traditional podcast. The biggest factor is not really the medium change —I’m doing presentations now—but rather that I can’t tell if the spirit of my project is still being fulfilled. The feeling I wanted to focus on was the utter, unadulterated excitement of learning something cool and immediately sharing or the pure joy when someone brings up something you’ve invested a lot of time in and you’re able to teach. I can’t sense that feeling in my project, given the many things that are going on, the topics I’m talking about feel so… pedestrian. How can I feel excited about… whatever when we’re in a crisis that’s being handled horribly because of an unfeeling capitalist society and the party that’s supposed to represent our interests is clearly just using us to stay in power and doesn’t actually care about the values it claims to espouse as long as it upholds the status quo? How? People are dying, and I’m talking about memes???

I’m trying to stay motivated, but it’s really hard to care.