–> Critical Reflection #6 Assignment: Final Reflection [CR6] This reflection is an in-depth look back at the past 6 weeks in particular, but can also address aspects of Senior Project[…]
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Blog Post 7
4/28 My visitors/“victims” are a group of college students, led by the impeccable Dani, whose family owns the house. I’m naming Dani after the main character in Ari Aster’s Midsommar,[…]
Blog Post 8
4/30 I’m newly interested in a gender aspect I haven’t considered: the dichotomy of the character’s quiet brutality with how she conducts herself. I wrote Dani to be near-perfect to[…]
Critical Reflection 3
–> Critical Reflection #3 Assignment: Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? (CR3) — Writing on your essential question:[…]
CR #6
My senior project experience has come to end. Although, technically I am still working on my project. In my mind, senior project isn’t over until the night of the presentation. […]
CR #6 – It’s Over – Nate
(Total Streams over Senior Project) Looking back at my essential question, did I answer it? No. But that’s not for lack of trying. It’s just a question that[…]
Jane Olsen CR#6 – Final Reflection
Going into a senior project I had a lot of preconceived notions of wellness. I knew that the word itself meant some state of health beyond physical health, but I[…]
Dakota Week 6 Update 1
Final week! This week I attempted two new recipes. One was an alteration of my mom’s recipe and the other was one I found online. The first one was a[…]
Blog post #8
After many hours of trying to figure out how I wanted to form my song, making each section a separate song or have them all be one, and I have[…]
The Never Ending Story
In an attempt to switch things up from my usual routine of writing and reading, I was invited to talk on Nate and Kamara’s podcast about movies! I had been[…]
TheLastBlogpost – Nate Simon
May 15th: It’s like the end of The Last Picture Show right now (the part when Duane leaves, not the kitchen scene); everything’s packed up and ready to be shipped[…]
Jane Olsen Post #8 Wellness Exploration
Recently I have been thinking more about how to maximize the wellness of those around me, as this is an important part of my essential question. Through the research I[…]
Writing a Screen Play #3
Now that I find myself traveling in a different direction in terms of plot and storyline, I decided to share one of my earliest outlines for my screenplay. This is[…]
Final Proposal
This was originally finalized on the first day of Senior Project: FINAL PROPOSAL Name: River Magee You have already written versions of your responses to many of these[…]
CR #5
My essential question was how can music reflect an emotion and what I’ve discovered is that each piece of music may be centered around one specific emotion but it reflects[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 5
Essential question: What impact does cooking Cantonese food have on me and my family? Through the process called Senior Project, I have realized that my process works well when I[…]
Critical Reflection #5 Assignment: Metacognition
Critical Reflection #5 Assignment: Metacognition I have discovered a lot of things about my own work process throughout the senior project timeline. I work poorly in environments that I am[…]
Jane Olsen CR #5 – Metacognition
A large part of my project has been about exploring myself and my habits and how I can improve them to improve my wellness, so in theory I have been[…]
Ruthie Week 5: Blog #8
As my Senior Project experience is winding down, I’m finding it harder and harder to write. The motivation has been ebbing away, and now there is virtually little to none[…]
AnotherBlogPost! – Nate
May 10th: I have nothing new to say. The project, while very fun and relatively insightful, has been the same cycle of watching and talking every week, which makes it[…]
Arlo – Updates 6
5/10 Today I finished a knife that I have been working on over the past few days. While working on it, I knew that I wanted to give it, so[…]
Blog post #7
We are coming to the final week of working on our senior projects and now the tech portion has become crucial. Of course, because my project is so complicated and[…]
Dakota Week 5 Update 1
This week I attempted to make steamed rice rolls (failed and trying again in a bit) and cooked with tofu for the first time. Cooking with tofu is kinda hard[…]
Jane Olsen Post #7 Wellness Exploration
I just finished watching the Heal documentary on Netflix. I knew nothing about it before beginning, only that it showed up when I searched wellness and seemed interesting. The film[…]
CR #4
This week, I made a lot of progress. Yesterday I spent 4 hours working on my project. I met with a friend of mines’ sibling who works with logic constantly.[…]
Ruthie’s CR #4
My Essential Question is how does an out of practice writer become an active, disciplined writer? I think that my essential question should change to something regarding how negative circumstances[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 4
Essential question: What impact does cooking Cantonese food have on me and my family? The other day, I was looking through photos of the informational walls I had taken at[…]
Critical Reflection #4
Recently I had the opportunity to watch the live version of Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, after having viewed the television series beforehand. It was an interesting experience being able to[…]
CR #4 – Nate
The two sources I had picked out were both film reviews, both by Roger Ebert, a critic I absolutely adore. The first was for the documentary Shoah, and in his[…]
Jane Olsen CR#4
My theme for this week is occupation, finances and how they relate to one’s wellness. The first source that I read about the dimensions of wellness included subjects such as[…]
Critical Reflection #3
Critical Reflection #3 Thus far, I have completely redrafted my original outline. I have entirely removed the murder centric plotline and changed it to something that is far more relevant[…]
CR #2
What is the process of writing a song like for a beginner? Because of quarantine, I’ve been at home speaking french 24/7with my family and speaking absolutely no english has[…]
CR #1
What is the process of writing a song like for a beginner? I know that to write something I am proud of would be to write something meaningful to me.[…]
AnotherBlogPost – Nate
May 3rd: I lost track of which blog post I’m on and I’m too lazy to find out. I think it’s number 8, maybe number 7, but it doesn’t really[…]
Ruthie Week 4: Blog #7
This week has gone a little better. I’ve mainly focused on revisions of my early pieces. I have found that I need to be in an editing mindset rather than[…]
Blog post #6
Finally, my pop filter came for my microphone. It took me forever to set up and get it to work properly but I did it. I messed around with the[…]
Jane Olsen Post #6 Wellness Exploration
Two significant things I experienced this week were watching The Pursuit of Happyness movie with Will Smith, and attending a vedic meditation intro talk. The movie made me feel extremely[…]
Arlo – Update 5
5/1 Today is the start of May. We have gotten a lot of work done in this project so far, though we are coming to the end of Senior Project.[…]
Dakota Week 4 Update 1
This week I made milk bread for the first time! It was quite the experience as I had never made bread before. It ended up being very rewarding; even though[…]
Writing a Screenplay #2
This week I have completely changed the plot of my story. Originally it was something like this: Beginning: Two friends coming back from a party, each of them frustrated about[…]
CR #1
I had a lot of trouble getting the right melody in the beginning of my project. I went through about 3 different ideas before I finally found the right one[…]
CR #2
Throughout this process, it’s been very difficult to gather up enough motivation to work during the quarantine. I’ve tried my best to put all of my frustration into my music.[…]
CR #3
My guitar chord finally arrived so I began recording the guitar portion. I feel that the guitar will really start to pull the whole song together. I think in the[…]
Arlo CR #3 – Sustainability in Design and Blacksmithing
How can we explore and express values of sustainability through the practice of a craft? As Ciro and I have begun to start work blacksmithing, I have begun to reflect[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 3
Essential question: What impact does cooking Cantonese food have on me and my family? My essential question has changed. It was originally “how has immigration impacted the recipes of Cantonese[…]
Ruthie’s CR #3
My essential question is how does an out of practice writer become an active, disciplined writer? Before Senior Project I read a book that a librarian friend from outside of[…]
Jane Olsen CR#3
My theme for the week is how other cultures and countries approach wellness. This is in relation to my essential question: what is wellness and how can I maximize the[…]
Blog post #5
Yesterday I decided to practice my singing tones so I would be prepared when my pop filter arrived and record the official vocals for each section. I adapted the tone[…]
Blog post #4
This original blog post was deleted so I’m rewriting it. As it turns out, I have been doing lots of research on what instruments help to best represent an[…]
CR #3 – Nate
April 28th: Like I said last week, I don’t think my essential question is one I can really know. It’s more of a setup for experiences. “How can we understand[…]