River Magee 4/13/20 Critical Reflection #1 We live in a world surrounded by entertainment and storytelling. I come from a family with large roots in[…]
Category: Cohorts
CR #1 – Nate
What Do I Know? Not much. But, as far as my essential question is concerned (and my essential question is: how can we talk about, and understand, film?) I know[…]
Jane Olsen Post #2 Wellness Exploration
This first week I also spent a lot of time planning for the coming weeks of my project. I developed weekly themes focused on different dimensions of wellness and explored[…]
Elisabeth Critical Reflection Week 1
My essential question is pretty vague, and so from the outset my research I feel like I definitely that the answer would be entirely dependent on myself and the direction[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Larger Painting #1 — Wriley Hodge
Towards the end of week 1, I began thinking about constructing a painting that was different than the open-air painting I had been doing. I was excited by the opportunity[…]
Sophie K. Blog Post #2
For the second half of my first week of senior project, I continued to do research and started conducting some interviews. For my research, I continued reading articles from data[…]
Mawena- Learning Twi (Week 1)
For my senior project I’ve been learning how to speak Twi. It’s a language that I’ve been familiar with for a long time. When I returned to America at age[…]
#1: Getting Started
For the first week of my project, I spent most of my time reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and researching artists to inform my art. I found many artists and[…]
Olivia Week One: Blog post #2
This week, I spent the majority of my time conducting research and getting comfortable with my topic. On the first day, I worked on writing interview questions for potential interviewees[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Week 1 — Wriley Hodge
This week I really got into the flow of my project. I began going out every day and making a sort of map of where different birds are when. Prospect[…]
Hanna Provost — Blog Post #1
I spent most of the first few days of Senior Project conducting character development exercises to figure out exactly who my character was. This was difficult for me largely because[…]
Julia Week 1: Blog #2
I feel like the first few days were just me getting everything together. These last couple of days have really picked up the pace. I figure this is gonna be[…]
Bay’s Senior Project 4/11
This week I started my online class on political philosophy and justice. In the first lecture, the professor introduced the difference between consequentialist vs. categorical moral reasoning by presenting multiple[…]
Jonathan – Week One, Part 2 – Zero To One by Peter Thiel, & Blake Masters
This week I started the book Zero To One by Blake Masters, & Peter Thiel. Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital & was a student at Stanford[…]
Sophie R – Week 1 (2)
Even though I’m familiar with a lot of the major themes involved in food sustainability, I’m surprised by how much I learned this week. One of the most interesting things[…]
Update #2: Sophie SF
On Thursday (4/9), I had the chance to observe a webinar focused on how The Hunger Project’s programs in East Africa and India are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. During[…]
Ariella Mendal Blog Post #2
The fist recipe I made is called Ajiaco. It is a traditional Colombian dish that comes from Medellín. It is similar to a chicken or pork stew/soup filled with a[…]
Look One: Porcelina Patchwork
While this is only the beginning of my project, I’m quite happy with how my first design turned out. I[…]
Ari Elgharsi Week 2, Post 2
I began the online course that takes you step by step through documentary film making and completed the first 20 minutes of it. I shot again outside for an hour[…]
Reverse Engineering Day 4
I decided to take a break with electronics today and did a bit of reading and designing. I started to read a book called Reverse Engineering for Beginners which mainly[…]
Julia Week 1: Blog #1
My project has two components, a design piece and a research piece. The first relies heavily on a textbook, which has prompts at the end of every chapter. The first[…]
Nika’s Blog #1
For the first part of my weekly assignment, I worked on onboarding at a company. The onboarding process helps a company develop a happy contributor and coworker who will work[…]
Max Zinman: Update 4/11
While this was a weird week for me, since my senior project largely revolves around the LREI schedule and school was closed on Thursday and Friday, I was still able[…]
My First Week & My Idea – Jonathan Ziebarth
Quick Side Note – As my original plan for documentation has changed, I hope I still fulfill the required structure. Over the course of this week I spend a long […]
4/11 Reflection Elisabeth
Since Tuesday I’ve been focusing on preparing the final product for the pickle recipe. This was hard as it was sort of a prototype for what I would be doing[…]
Project Proposal
FINAL PROPOSAL Name: Lucian Figliulo You have already written versions of your responses to many of these questions in previous assignments for Senior Project; you may reuse prior writing[…]
Dakota – Week 1 Update 2
In the past couple of days, I have done a lot of research about hot pot (called da bien lou in Cantonese). I initially thought that there was just one[…]
Cameron’s Journalism: Storytelling and Media Week 1: Update 2
Here is my second video update of Week 1! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jv3EeTr5M300MfopOQWSJKTEr5Fqwp5k
Michelle- Week One, Post #2: Online Course and Puzzles
April 10th, 2020 EQ: How does the infant brain structure work? Understanding the fundamentals of the brain and its properties has definitely prepared me for the fundamentals of neuroscience course[…]
Michelle- Week One, Post #1: Fundamentals of the Brain
April 8th, 2020 EQ: How does the infant brain structure work? On the first days of my project, I thought I’d spend some time understanding the significance of neuroscience in[…]
Molly- Week 1, Post 2
Community in the Time of Covid-19 Since this week was Passover, I’ve spent most of the past two days with my family celebrating. However, some of what I’ve been doing[…]
Peter Mamaev graphic novel update 4/9
4/9/2020 In my gradual descent into madness, I am beginning to once more appreciate the necessity of weekends. Or, at least, momentous breaks. While I would most certainly call the[…]
Anna Mueller – Blog Post 2: Character Journal
After Hanna and I drafted the plot of our story and completed a few character development exercises, we both began working on our characters’ journal. One of the biggest challenges[…]
Sophie R – Week 1 (1)
This week I started working on my first online class, watched a documentary, and listened to some podcasts. My original senior project involved working with different farms, both rural and[…]
Jaquie’s -Post #2
After I finished my COVID-19 course, I decided I was going to take COVID-19 Diagnostics and Testing course which focuses on getting “the latest recommendations on COVID-19 diagnostics and testing,[…]
Pierre’s CR #1
Firstly, I learned about operators and how the computer reads mathematical terms. Secondly, I learned the autofill button which is a very useful control. I showed my dad, who uses[…]
Senior Project – Friday, April 10th by Kamara
We recorded our third podcast episode and the last episode of our first week. This week was dedicated to animation, sow e ended strong with A Silent Voice and Akira. Thankfully, as this[…]
Work Days 1 and 2
On the first day of my project started researching luthiery and the process of bass building. In my research, I got an idea of what needed to be done first[…]
Oscar Chun – Focused Writing Week 1 (Apr.6-Apr.10) Part 2
I have currently finished the first chapter of my novel. Ever since then, the second chapter has been going a lot more smoothly than the first. I believe this is[…]
Reverse Engineering Day 3
I woke up this morning and thought to myself, “what if I tried to take apart my PS4 one more time,” and that’s exactly what I did today. After two[…]
Rigorous Basketball Training Week 1
Jacob: Off Balance and Moving Shots On Monday I worked on making off balance and moving shots. From watching old videos of myself playing, I realize that I often find[…]
#2 – Nate (April 9th)
It’s April 9th, and we’re recording our third podcast (the last of the Animation podcasts) at some point tomorrow. We’ve watched a movie every day of the week, and I[…]
Layne – Week 1 Post 2
Linked above are scans from my first few days of work. So far I have focused most of my time on research. I have read two plays so far: The[…]
Jaquie Adler- Blog post #1
My project and essential question are as followed: “I will be studying how COVID-19 affects different healthcare systems around the world and by studying that, help me come up with[…]
Anna Mueller – Blog Post 1: Character Development
I spent a large portion of my time during the first three days of Senior Project conducting character development exercises. Before writing either the letters or the journal (both from[…]
Update #1: Sophie SF
This week, I started my remote internship with The Hunger Project (THP), a strategic, non-profit organization that works to end chronic hunger and extreme poverty by launching sustainable, grassroots, women-centered[…]
Ari Elgharsi Week 1 , Post 1
For the first steps in creating my documentary, I began as always with a script. I initially spent two hours getting out all my ideas on paper after being inspired.[…]