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[…]
CR #3
I have seen significant improvement in my life drawing which does answer my essential question of time in resulting in learned skills. I have dedicated my practice to solely drawing[…]
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[…]
Natalie Peña – Critical Reflection #3
Most of my exploration of my Senior Project is through the books that I’m reading and subsequent author interviews, blogposts, and reviews. It’s a bit different than I imagined because[…]
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
My essential question is more directed at private EMS, whereas my project is more directing to questions that I didn’t really know I had about about what it is like[…]
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[…]
Critical reflection 3 – Max A.
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[…]
Mika’s Critical Reflection #3
I feel the most comfortable dancing when I am doing hip-hop styles. However, one of my contemporary classes allowed me to start to answer the second part of my essential[…]
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,[…]
CR #3 Ethan Oliver
My essential question has held true to what I am doing at the office. I have been doing a lot of computer drop offs and pickups with donors and nonprofits[…]
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[…]
Cosima Dovan – 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[…]
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[…]
Documentation Week#2- Ana Ziebarth
Week #2 4/21/21 So far this week I’ve been doing research on profiling methods and a lot of background work on serial murders to prepare to start studying one of[…]
Critical Reflection #2 – Rosina Kling
Write about a single experience or moment, and ask: how does this moment, experience, or encounter relate to my essential question?” In week two of exploring Hank Green’s Crash[…]
Caleb Kohn-Blank – Critical Reflection #2
One moment that relates to my essential question was after I had finished my Game Design Doc and began building my initial prototype. I started by working on some of[…]
Rei Weintraub – Week 1 Documentation (Post #2)
This week in my EMT class I learned about medical assessment and administering medications. This is about my 10th week in the course. I was very surprised about how much[…]
Rei Weintraub – Week 1 Documentation (Post #1)
Today we had our cohort meeting and Daniel suggested that I narrowed my focus on what I wanted to research. I had the general idea that I wanted to learn[…]
Natalie Peña – Critical Reflection #2
A moment I’m thinking about is when I finished reading my first book for my senior project, and I had to sit down and write a lil “review” type thing[…]
April 21- documentation
While sewing my dress, I have been reading a book called Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas. I tried to keep the materials of the dress to be as sustainable as possible;[…]
Natalie Peña – Critical Reflection #1
My essential question is “how does a book go from an idea to what we see on a shelf?” Something I already know about that is what the book-making process[…]
Critical Reflection #1 Luke
What do you know? Explain what you already know about your essential question. Explain why the topic is important to you, and what is motivating your inquiry. I want to[…]
Sarah Katz 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[…]
Stella Propp- Journal Week 1
The first official week of Senior Project could not have been better for me. Having all of this time to devote to one project truly makes all the difference. I[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation 2 – Week #1
This week, we had 5 lambs born on the farm so helping the sheep give birth as well as caring for/ making sure the newborn lambs were healthy took lots[…]
Josh Sapira – Critical Reflection #2
To be completely honest, there is no single moment I can point to and say, “this is when I knew sports analytics was something I wanted to explore.” Rather, I[…]
Williamsburg Photos
We are going to use individual presentations to showcase the photos from our different trips. This is the link to our presentation on Williamsburg.
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 it[…]
Caroline Maltz: 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?” One of my essential[…]
Charlie Thackway Critical Reflection #2
Through just my first week of working on my project, I have uncovered a lot about the work I am doing, but also myself. In taking the class in After[…]
CR 1
I am interested in maximizing this short amount of time I have been given to study my passion and be able to teach myself by practicing my least evolved skills[…]
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?” One moment that really stood[…]
Sara- Final Project Proposal
Final Project Proposal Sara Brodsky Project Title: An Artistic Adaptation of Walking Through an Ecofeminist Lens Essential Question: Living in the bustling urban atmosphere of NYC, is it possible to[…]
Gwen Raffo – Week 1 Journal
4/15/21 I actually got quite a lot done today. I reached out to some people about help with badge guides and possibilities for live sessions and guest presentations. After that,[…]