Connect to outside sources (article/book/podcast/ted talk/blog/website/etc) This is a Text investigation. Consider your essential question in the context of at least two outside sources you have identified that connect to your essential[…]
Category: Cohorts
Rei Weintraub – Week 3 Documentation (Post #2)
4/29 EMT in person class- Topic: KED Today we learned how to use the KED. KED stands for Kendric Extrication Device and it is used for extricating patients from[…]
Rei Weintraub Week 3 Documentation (Post #1)
4/27 EMT in person class- Topic: Childbirth This week in EMT class we learned about our last two topics: childbirth and the KED. For childbirth, when I got[…]
Critical Reflection #3: Olivia Cueto
Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #4
My Essential Questions: How does treatment differ for different types of animals, wild and domestic, and how do you learn what types of treatment techniques are best? How can shadowing[…]
Stella Propp- Critical Reflection #4
This is a Text investigation. Consider your essential question in the context of at least two outside sources you have identified that connect to your essential question. My first source was[…]
Stella Propp- Journal Week 3
For the beginning half of the week, I devoted my time to brainstorming questions and things that I want to learn and talk about with other entrepreneurs. For part of[…]
Week 3 – interview with Miko Underwood
Why did you decide to start a fashion brand? So, I have been in the industry for about 18 years designing and leading other brands and in a design director[…]
week 2 – meeting
I met with Lisa Metcalf, owner of Ten Yards, a company which helps fashion brands with sourcing, production and logistics. She has worked in the fashion world for over 30[…]
Weekly Reflection for 4/26
For this post, I thought I would share some of the history that I learned onboard Intrepid, particularly relating to its sinister nickname in WWII, the Ghost Ship. Intrepid first[…]
Spencer Rosenblum-Critical Reflection #4
This is a Text investigation. Consider your essential question in the context of at least two outside sources you have identified that connect to your essential question. How do these ideas resonate[…]
Cate Woolsey – 2 Week 3 Reflections
4/27/21 The pointillism painting that I have been working on has continued to be a challenge. I did not paint on it as much as I hoped to this week,[…]
Zander Lu-Critical Reflection #3
“Even if by the utmost effort the goodwill accomplishes nothing it would still shine like a jewel for its own sake as something which has its full value in itself.”-[…]
Overlook Mountain House
In the early 1800s, the Hudson Valley became a popular vacation spot for rich New York City residents. Developers throughout upstate New York capitalized on this demand for a taste[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation: 2 – Week #3
During the second part of this week we had lots of lambs born on the farm. Out of the three mothers that gave birth this week, one had a lot[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation: 1 – Week #3
I was able to capture a lot of great photos and videos this week of the birds in the Ravensbeard Rehabilitation center and these are some of them: Link[…]
Dana Katz- Project Update 2
UPDATE #1 Posts for Earth Day Caption: Happy Earth Day! We love our planet and we always want to make sure that Mother Nature is happy and healthy. One of[…]
Critical Reflection #3 – Rosina
My essential question deals more with the creative aspect of this project of taking my own interpretations of philosophical thinking and applying them to whatever art I feel like creating.[…]
Isabella Marcellino – Critical Reflection #3
I absolutely believe my Senior Project has helped me answer my essential question. Throughout this project, I have mainly attempted to understand what I can learn about a design/architecture education[…]
Kate Startsev CR #3
How do cities balance people’s needs, environmental sustainability, and corporate interests? What part do various stakeholders play when designing public spaces? How can we design around people’s habits and behaviors?[…]
Critical Reflection 3 – Sofia Giglio
I think the most important way I can answer my essential question is through research and conversations with experienced people. Luckily, a close family friend works in the fashion industry[…]
Jack Trowbridge – Week 3 Journal
Monday, April 26 (6:48 hours logged today) This morning, I caught up on some reflections from Week 2, including my third Critical Reflection. I want to start keeping up with documentation[…]
Process Documentation Week 2 #1
Reading “How to Study Public Life” and researching ethnography. I’ve been prepping for interviews as well. Here are some of my interview questions, separated by general and more specific: […]
Isabella Marcellino – Week 3 Documentation #1
Here is my third homework assignment for my Design Communication I course. The assignment was to draft a “maquette,” which is a rough draft of a three-dimensional space. The drawing[…]
Process Documentation Week 1
I spent the week mostly reading Happy City, which I felt was a really good introduction to the topic that I’m working with. I learned a lot of interesting information[…]
Progress week 2 part 2- Luke
I planned out and designed the outline for my board. Then I shaved the blank down to my desired outline, it isn’t exactly as I drew it, but I like[…]
Progress week 2 part 1 – Luke
I sanded one of my unfinished boards to the final smoothened finished as well as adding a leash loop to that board (a step that I had forgotten while making[…]
Progress Week 1 – Luke
The first week of senior project I shaped a small fish style surfboard. This board didn’t take too long and came out very nicely compared to my past boards. I[…]
Week 3 experience 2
On my way back to the station after a long shift with an extremely complex patient, we got a call for an unknown problem. Upon our arrival on scene, there[…]
Critical Reflection #3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Caleb Kohn-Blank – Critical Reflection #3
So far, exploring my essential question is already different from how I expected it would go. I originally had 3 parts of my project in my proposal: creating a game,[…]
Caleb Kohn-Blank – Documentation
Week 1: Notes on Games Game Design Doc 4/14 Potion Document v.1 4/14 Game Design Doc 4/16 Week 2: Game Design Doc 4/19 Game Design Doc 4/22 Artifact[…]
Solomon Karpati: Critical Reflection #3
How can I present landscape painting as a form of preservation of nature, and how can I use a collection of paintings to spread a message about climate change, and[…]
Caroline Maltz: Documentation
This week I’ve decided to do one-minute paper posts. The first prompt I’d like to do is: In your opinion, what was the most useful idea encountered today? As[…]
Critical Reflection #3 – Cole
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Caroline Maltz: CR #3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Critical reflection #3
1.How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Critical reflection #2
Describe a moment and analyze: “Write about a single experience or moment, and ask: how does this moment, experience, or encounter relate to my essential question?” You can also compare[…]
Jack H – Critical Reflection #3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Gwen Raffo – Critical Reflection #3
Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what[…]
Charlie Thackway Critical Reflection #3
At the beginning of week three, I have reached a vital turning point in my project, after finishing my course in After Effects, I can now begin to tackle the[…]
Annabelle Hatsav – Critical Reflection #3
My essential questions: How can I make food more accessible to people in poverty? How can I work to improve my own baking and food understanding? I have been exploring[…]
Critical Reflection #3 – Pearl Mcaninch
Are you answering your essential question? Essential Question: How can I tell my story through creating music? Sub Questions: How can I grow as a musician by better understanding music[…]
Critical Reflection #3
Now that you’re three weeks (halfway) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you[…]
Critical Reflection #2
One of our essential questions asks what we can predict for the future of new york. Walking around Greenwich Village gave me a profound sense of what can be accomplished[…]
Critical Reflection 3
For this last week, I was unable to record music in my studio due to last minute college touring. However, this did not enable me to continue my research on[…]
Lindsay O’Brien – Critical Reflection #3
Essential Question: How does the environment or structure of a classroom affect a child’s learning and development? What I’ve learned from a combination of in-person experiences and research that[…]
Elias Kassel-Venetis CR #3 (Week 2)
Essential Question: How can I learn about tradition and heritage through cooking? Over the past two weeks I’ve been exploring my project by cooking and doing research. So far, Ive[…]
Critical Reflection #3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Luc Dunlop CR 3
Over the past 3 weeks I have listened to various basketball podcasts and created my own. The more I record these interviews, the more I find my voice. As I[…]
Luc Dunlop CR 2
For the first week of my senior project I interviewed two coaches. Although I did not look at the youth’s perspective on basketball, I investigated what shapes it. Interviewing coaches[…]
Luc Dunlop CR 1
It is important to hear a wide range of perspectives on the game of basketball, yet we do not have access to points of views that differ from mainstream sports[…]
Stella Propp- Critical Reflection #3
For a little while now, I’ve been thinking about my essential question and I feel like maybe it’s too general or more so straightford. I am diving into my business[…]
Week 3 experience 1
The first thing I was taught in EMT school and was drilled into all of our brains throughout was that your safety comes before anything else followed by your partner’s[…]
Jack Trowbridge – Critical Reflection #3 (Week 2)
Now that you’re three weeks (halfway) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you[…]
Cayla Robbins- CR #3
Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what[…]
Isabella Marcellino – Week 2 Documentation #3
Here is a 3D SketchUp model of my second assignment for my Design Communication I course. Using the measurements I recorded on my 2D draft, I was able to easily[…]
Critical Reflection 3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Josh Sapira – Critical Reflection #3
I am exploring my essential question in exactly the way I thought I would be – through diving into the numbers. Every day that I explore numbers to eventually be[…]
Gwen Raffo – Week 2 Journal
4/23/21 Today I sent out my website, Instagram, and Discord server to a bunch of groups of girls that I have contact with. So far 10 people have joined, and[…]
Cate Woolsey – 2 Week 2 Reflections
This week I spend a lot of my time reading. The three books that I have so far include “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger, “The Shape of Content” by[…]
Malia Sardinha – Critical Reflection #3
Essential Question:What are the criteria that makes food authentic? I am exploring my essential question through research and interviewing. The answers I’ve gotten so far has been in the realm[…]
Rei Weintraub – Critical Reflection #3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Rei Weintraub – Week 2 Documentation (Post #2)
April 22nd Today in my in person EMT class, we went over trauma and medical assessments. We are almost done with the 5 month course and have learned all[…]
Spencer Rosenblum-Critical Reflection #3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation 2 – Week 2
During the second part of this week, we had another pregnant sheep give birth to twins and these are the pictures I documented of the lambs: We also had[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation 1 – Week 2
The first half of this week I spent all of my time checking on the lambs, (if they’re eating, drinking, acting normal, etc.) The photo below is of the first[…]
Henry Boone – Critical Reflection #3
Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what[…]
Navah Goldblum – Critical Reflection #3
My essential questions are: What are subtle ways economists can influence people to make smarter financial decisions? How can economists prove that behavioral economics is real? And How can economists[…]
Navah Goldblum – Critical Reflection #2
Two of my essential questions are: What are subtle ways economists can influence people to make smarter financial decisions? and How can economists prove that behavioral economics is real? Obviously,[…]
Cate Woolsey – Critical Reflection #3
How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different[…]
Ruthanne Staskowski Documentation Post (Updated Twice Weekly)
Week 1: This week I did pre-work for my project by watching many documentaries and then analyzing the techniques that they used to tell a story. Took notes on this[…]
CR #3 – Ruthanne
Now that you’re three weeks (halfway) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what[…]
CR #2 – Ruthanne
Describe a moment and analyze: “Write about a single experience or moment, and ask: how does this moment, experience, or encounter relate to my essential question?” You can also compare[…]
Stella Propp- Journal Week 2
Aside from my regular baking, decorating, packaging, and shipping out duties, this week was dedicated to The Hunter Circuit Foundation whose goal is to help support talented and underfunded young[…]
Acadia and Lily Senior Project Blog
For further blog posts, please visit our personal senior project blog at https://nycwithacadiaandlily.blogspot.com !! Thanks
Meeting With Yukie
Last week we met with Yukie Ohta, an archivist and founder of the Soho Memory Project, in order to discuss our findings after photographing Williamsburg, Greenwich Village, and the Financial[…]
Lily P and Acadia S Critical Reflection 2- Senior Project
Critical Reflections #2: “Write about a single experience or moment, and ask: how does this moment, experience, or encounter relate to my essential question?” An experience that relates to[…]
Week 2 experience 2
Something that I had anticipated but not yet felt about my time in EMS so far was the effect of the long hours and the changing shifts. In the past[…]
Cate Woolsey – 2 Week 0 Reflections
4/7/21 After studying and researching Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” I learned about the pointillism technique. Seurat and Paul Signac developed pointillism, which[…]
Cate Woolsey – 2 Week 1 Reflections
4/12/21 A moment from this week that was fun and engaging was my field trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I intended to only go there to look at[…]
Nina Gerzema – Critical Reflectoin #3
Now that you’re three weeks (halfway) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? 1. How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #3
My Essential Questions: How does treatment differ for different types of animals, wild and domestic, and how do you learn what types of treatment techniques are best? How can shadowing[…]
Isabella Marcellino – Week 2 Documentation #2
Here is my second homework assignment for my Design Communication I course. The assignment was to draft a simple chair in multiple views: front view, side view (both elevations), plan[…]
Midweek reflection – Paper Airplanes
This week, I finished up a series of lectures on Aeronautical engineering. This particular series was on the structures and actual design of a plane. At the end of the[…]
Critical Reflection #2- Luke
CR 2 \Describe a moment and analyze: “Write about a single experience or moment, and ask: how does this moment, experience, or encounter relate to my essential question?” You can[…]
Kate Startsev – Critical Reflection #2
An experience that relates to my essential question is one that happened in the ‘sustainable cities’ course I took last summer. The last project of the program was to find[…]
Emmett Critical Reflection #2
This weekend I was hunting for old clothing that I could practice reworking for my project. I stumbled on a pair of heavily worn vintage Levis at the flea market[…]
Zander Lu- Critical Reflection #2
“It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge.” Oscar Wilde Morality is more complicated than I thought. There are principles defining how to act. The[…]
Zander Lu- Week 2.2
Libertarianism, on the other hand, respects the right to choose. It values the individual. The fundamental right is to live as we please, as long as it doesn’t inhibit others[…]
Zander Lu- Week 2.1
Utilitarianism believes that the moral thing to do is to maximize pleasure over pain. This means that while some may suffer, as long as most prosper, it is worth it.[…]
Isabella Marcellino – Critical Reflection #2
One of the most important lessons I have learned from my Senior Project thus far has been how to manage my time when I have no structured schedule guiding my[…]
Rei Weintraub – Week 2 Documentation (Post #1)
April 19th Today I did a shift on a private ambulance. As a part of my class, all students need to complete a 10 hour shift on an ambulance[…]
Isabella Marcellino – Week 2 Documentation #1
Here is a time lapse of me beginning my second homework assignment for my Design Communication I course: The assignment was to draft a simple chair in multiple[…]
Rei Weintraub – Critical Reflection #2
I recently listened to a podcast by Dr. Asha Shajahan, MD. from Beaumont hospital discussing the idea of zip codes dictating how long you live. Within one zip codes you[…]
Critical Reflection 2- Sofia Giglio
While walking around with my friend a while ago, we were going to stop in the fast fashion store Urban Outfitters. While we were inside she had asked me why[…]
Jack Trowbridge – Week 2 Journal
* Please note the change in format between last week’s journal and this week’s. I’m going to try to make more frequent entries, and instead of logging my total number[…]