As I have worked at Premier Studios more and more, I have realized that I am not working under the usual conditions of a recording studio, or at least for[…]
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Ruby R. Blog Post #3
Throughout my Senior Project, I have known the source material for my project but what I am doing with that material has changed and evolved during the last six weeks.[…]
Blog Post 3 – Grace Burns
I began this project with inquiries about how a magazine is created, start to finish. I wanted to know what went on behind the scenes, from choosing what content to[…]
Blog Post #3-Miles Friedman
My senior project started with the essential question: How does culture affect and create the food landscape in the Tri-State Area? I believe my project definitely was focused around this[…]
Elijah Meltzer and Z Fluger – Blog Post # 3: Reflection
Our Senior Project experience, in many ways, challenged our expectations and our preconceived notions. While our process is still ongoing, we did not end up reaching our goals in terms[…]
Blog Post #3
My original intentions for this project were to find out what working in a corporate office is like, what working in advertising/video production is like, whether I enjoy advertising and[…]
Blog Post 3 — Harvey Van Blerkom
I think this project has been a tremendous success. Looking back, I feel as though I have accomplished, or at least done my best to try and accomplish all of[…]
Zain Erakky- Blog post #3
My Senior Project essential question: How are second-generation Arab Muslims negotiating Islamic interpretation regarding gendered clothing? This question has provided a consistent framework for my project. It also allowed me[…]
Joe Rosenblum Blog Post #3
Joe Rosenblum Blog Post #3 5/19/22 When I first started thinking about what my senior project was going to be, back in early February, I would have never imagined[…]
Blog Post #3 – Olivia Propp
Looking back at my essential question, I think I would change it to: “How can I understand the ways that children learn through observing dance classes?” While I initially had[…]
Zane Walker — Reflection
While my initial project was radically dissimilar from the point where I ended, in many ways I still answered the question I entered with: “how[…]
Blog Post 3
The goal for my senior project was to essentially utilize everything I had disposable to me to arrive at a further point in the music industry. This involved two aspects[…]
Leanne Daley – Blog Post #3
Returning home after a month was bittersweet. I missed the food and the environment of Italy more than anything, but I also missed my family and New York, and the[…]
Unnaturalist Journal- Rue
I started off my Senior Project with a few goals in mind. It would be a combination of science, art, and writing, with a touch of history. I imagined this[…]
Zoe Karp – Blog Post #3
Senior project is over! Looking back, I’m very surprised by the ways my project changed its shape and focus. Starting out, my essential questions were “How does pedagogy differ in[…]
Blog Post # 3: Reflection Sam Saslow
Looking back at my essential question I think I definitely answered it. My question was a great way for me to set up my project. I asked myself how[…]
Blog Post 3
I framed my project as viewing production through the eyes of an actor, and while I think that somewhat guided me, I don’t exactly feel the entire project was encompassed[…]
Blog Post #1
One week into my senior project experience, I found that finally seeing my plan in action felt self-rewarding. Even after several weeks of prep: pitching, planning, digging, it was rather[…]
Blog Post 2#
So far in my project, I have realized that my goals have shifted. I had initially planned on basing my project solely around lithography and painting but as I have[…]
Blog Post 1#
My first week of the senior project has been the experience that I wanted it to be. I am finding that the work that I have put into this painting[…]
Mason Rosse Blog Post 1: The Workings of a Recording Studio.
So far my senior project has not surprised me very much but has definitely passed my expectations. From the stories I have heard from other music studios I expected a[…]
Grace Burns – Blog Post 2
I find it hard to believe all the time that has passed as I now enter the second half of my project. I feel acclimated to the work schedule at[…]
Blog Post #2
For me, what hasn’t gone to plan has been my progress afterward. Coming back to New York, if anything I have taken in and learned so much from Quebec. I’ve[…]
Blog Post #1
My project has met my expectations. I came into this project originally preparing to gain some facts about the musical culture in Gaspe, Quebec, however, my first night in Canada[…]
Sam Saslow Blog Post #2
Recently in my senior project experience, I had covid which was good and bad for multiple reasons regarding my project. I was able to have all the resources I[…]
Blog Post #2 – Ricky Castillo
My plan for week two was to read the Bitcoin White Paper. The white paper is essentially a document that lays out the design, features, or motivations for an idea,[…]
Unnaturalist Journal- Rue
So far my project has gone pretty well. Everything accords to plan in the sense that any one thing can go to plan. I have never once in my life[…]
Blog post #2
I have LOVED my project so much so far, even though there have been a couple of bumps on the road. I feel like I have gotten to do one[…]
Blog Post #2 – Olivia Propp
This week I have learned a lot of important teaching tips from Deborah during our classes together. Since we are teaching students who are at a very young age, maintaining[…]
Jemma Fox – Blog Post #2
I think my project has gone well so far. There is nothing that has really gone off track or anything like that. I have struggled a bit with self motivation,[…]
Blog Post #2 – Marlowe Glass
Over the course of the last two weeks, I’ve begun thinking about my future and where I could work after college. Everything in my project has gone to plan: I’ve[…]
ZE blog post 2
Overall, the project has gone to plan. I have kept up with the reading. The reading has been the backbone of everything else happening in the project. It has allowed[…]
Joe Rosenblum Blog Post #2
As I have approached the midpoint of my senior project experience one question remains lingering in my mind while I do my work. So what? In case the reader doesn’t[…]
Blog Post #2
I have really enjoyed the past week of my work, and am incredibly excited about the second half of my archives work. On Monday, I completed the survey section of[…]
Blog Post #2
In the past couple of weeks, we have run into a problem with scheduling, we have faced issues with college revisits interfering with rehearsal time. While we were still able[…]
Blog post 2 Emma h
This project has been very up and down. My project was inspired by my very passions, fashion and photography. I wanted to find a way to Incorporate both of these[…]
Ava Blog Post #2
This week marked the halfway point of senior project. Although I’m happy with what I’ve created so far, I also feel that my progress has been slow. I didn’t anticipate[…]
Blog Post #2 Miles Friedman
So far I feel like my project has gone relatively similar to what I planned it to be. What I wanted from my project was to be able to go[…]
Blog Post #2
Overall, since my last update I have really enjoyed what I have done with my senior project. My biking finished up last week and I started the running portion of[…]
Freddie Blog Post 2
My first two weeks have been operating a bit differently than my last two weeks. The beginning part of my project was emphasizing my work with Illusion Hills, especially since[…]
Blog Post #2 – Stella Kekalos
At the midpoint of this project, I am really proud of and happy with the course and progress of my project. So far most of my project has gone to[…]
Blog Post #1 – Stella Kekalos
After the first week of Senior Project, I am really enjoying my project and the experience of it. For the most part, the plan I have set out to complete[…]
Emma B: Blog Post 1
Senior project has allowed me a lot of time to work on my music. Before project, music was always something that I had to squeeze in when I came home[…]
Zoe Karp – Blog Post #2
My project has really been flying by! For the last three weeks, I’ve been working at Stephen Gaynor School, and in the next three weeks, I’ll be moving to the[…]
Leanne Daley – Blog Post #2
What has/hasn’t gone to plan? What new questions have you discovered? Have your goals or aspirations for the project changed. Are you happy with your project thus far, both[…]
Blog Post 2
Since starting my project my biggest takeaway has been that I need to be flexible and have the ability to adapt quickly. The nature of the industry is that everything[…]
Blog Post #2
This blog post marks the half way point of my senior project, and here I will reflect upon my experience so far and elaborate on what that means for[…]
Leanne Daley – Blog Post #1
You are one week into the Senior Project Experience. How is your project matching up to your expectations or dreams? What did you expect coming into the project? What[…]
MasonR Bibliography
Byrne, David. How Music Works. Three Rivers Press (CA), 2017. This book taps both the creative and experiential parts of my senior project, with the author talking both about his[…]
MasonR Senior Project Proposal 1
Your Name: Mason Rosse Your Project Title: Exploring the Music Industry Overview: Describe your topic and project and how you will measure success (300 words minimum: make your project come[…]
Leilani blog post 1
My project so far has been a little more challenging and overwhelming than I expected. The internship has been very time consuming, leaving me less time to work on my[…]
Becoming Financially Literate – Ricky Castillo
My goal is to become financially literate. That means understanding my own finances, what it means to open up a bank account, own a credit card, and pay my taxes.[…]
Bella Otero Blog Post 1
The senior project itself feels like a free fall; years of going into school from 8:30 to 3:00 are now replaced with 6 weeks of freedom. Since the Tiny Desk[…]
Grace Burns – Blog Post 1
After the first day of my internship, I came home more enthusiastic and exhausted than I could have explained with words. The day went by exceptionally fast; it wasn’t until[…]
Blog Post 1 – Ruby Rosenblatt
Thus far in my senior project, I am very happy with how it’s going. I am making good progress with my re-reading and annotation of the Earthsea series; I am[…]
Blog Post #1
This week has felt like a lot of preparation. I thought I would be able to get straight into things and that it would all run super smoothly, but this[…]
Blog Post #1 – Tilda Sutter
I have thoroughly enjoyed the first two weeks of my senior project. Even though the project has proved more challenging than expected – I definitely underestimated the content I would[…]
Joe Rosenblum: Blog Post 1
My senior project is off to an unexpected but positive start. Since my project involves a lot of traveling around the city, a rainy schedule was not exactly to[…]
Project Update 1
I started this project with what I thought was a clear and do-able goal: to create a book breaking down urban spaces across the city. I thought this would[…]
Ava Blog Post #1
My project has allotted me a good amount of time to work on my writing, which is something I’ve never had before. During the school year, I was preoccupied with[…]
Blog Post #1 – Olivia Propp
So far I am really enjoying teaching the 4’s, 4’s K, and Kindergarten class. Since these children are still at a young and developing age, they still have a lot[…]
Blog Post 1: Ben Connolly
In the first week of the project, I got off to a slow start. I was nervous that I wouldn’t be able to actually get any work done. I began[…]
Blog Post #1
Being one week into the senior project my experience thus far has been very on point. My projecting is matching up to my expectations well and even going beyond[…]
Harvey Van Blerkom Blog Post 1
The senior project experience so far has been nothing short of the best I could have hoped for. I have learned so much about football, been given remarkable amounts of[…]
Unnaturalist Journal- Rue
One week into Senior Project feels like so much time and no time at all. I have spent hours on art where it felt like only 15 minutes, and I[…]
Miles Friedman Blog Post 1
While it has only been one week of going around to different restaurants and writing about them I feel like I have gained a lot of knowledge and information about[…]
Freddie Blog Post 1
So far my senior project has been amazing. I have been able to thrive with so much time on my hand, and without the presence of school, I am way[…]
Eli Harris Blog Post #1
After a week and a half of my senior project, I have learned many things. All in all I have really enjoyed the first part of this project. I have[…]
Z Fluger – Blog Post #1
How is your project matching up to your expectations or dreams?: Now that we are actively chasing our project the trails that we will face have come much more clearly[…]
Zain Erakky – Blog Post #1
This project is beginning to meet my expectations and dreams for discovering how your faith affects how one dresses and/or acts. This week a question that came up was, how[…]
Week one reflection
Week one of senior project: Emma Hirsch Starting off this project has been motivating, exciting, but stressful too. The first week consisted of gathering information, inspiration, fabrics, materials, watching many[…]
Blog Post #1 – Ely Silverman
My project has been proving to be a little bit more difficult than I thought. I expected more of my initial contacts to respond to my emails and then lead[…]
Marlowe Glass – Blog Post #1
Entering the fourth week of my internship, I couldn’t have imagined this project being as formative, impactful, and interesting as it has turned out to be. From the very first[…]
Zoe Karp – Blog Post #1
So far, this project has been almost exactly what I expected in terms of structure and day-to-day, but I’m learning more about myself and the way I work in classrooms[…]
Shutting Down Pipeline 5 at the Bad River Band Reservation
During my senior project, I want to explore and immerse myself in the field of environmental justice in all possible ways. I have always been passionate about the environment and[…]
Konrad Morgan Lehmann Annotated Bibliography: Sports Education in Schools
Konrad Morgan Lehmann Senior Project 2022 Annotated Bibliography 3/25/22 Knight, Bob. Knight on Sports and Education. OAH Magazine of History, 1985. Bob Knight writes about the issues that he views[…]
Sakari Sylvester: Annotated Bibliography
Chaudhry, Sabena. “Jamaica Rising.” Destabilizing Queens, 12 Dec. 2018, https://projects.newsdoc.org/destabilizingqueens/jamaica-rising/. This article focuses on the rapid change that Jamaica, Queens is going through. It talks about “Jamaica Avenue ”[…]
Sakari Sylvester: Incentivizing A Community
For my project, I wanted to focus on something that I felt was relevant and fascinating. I have always had an unexplored interest in real estate, particularly development. In the[…]
Annotated Bibliography
Sources Book: Food Chemistry Fennema, Owen R. Food Chemistry. Third ed., e-book ed., CRC Press, 1996. Google Books. In Owen Fennema’s book, he offers step-by-step explanations of the overall field[…]
Part 1 Proposal
Over quarantine, like many, at home cooking and baking became a huge part of my life. It not only became a pastime but a way of connecting with my culture[…]
Marlowe Glass Annotated Bibliography: Congressional Internship
Dennis C. Rasumussen. Fears Of A Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders. Princeton University Press, 2021. Dennis Rasumussen, a distinguished professor of political science at Syracuse University, offers[…]
Annotated Bibliography – Ely Silverman
Davis, Angela Yvonne. Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press, 2003. In this text, Angela Davis takes on the complicated and historical issue of prison abolition. She discusses how many[…]
Annotated Bibliography – Rhyus Goldman
Parker, Phillip. The Art and Science of Screenwriting. Intellect Ltd. 1999. pg. (3) https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0DVQ2XopcxMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=screenwriting&ots=9ptQ4P9vDX&sig=7Yw2-VL4OhJ2mvkuvn8Yo-0vDdQ#v=onepage&q=screenwriting&f=false Phillip Parker wrote this piece on how to properly write a successful screenplay. Parker says[…]
Creating & Producing A Tiny Desk Concert
Bella Otero Creating & Producing A Tiny Desk Concert Over the next six weeks, I will be creating and producing a Tiny Desk Concert to explore creative performance and the[…]
Proposal Part 2: Joe Rosenblum
Annotated Bibliography Senior Project 2022 Due 3/31 (final version will also be posted to the SP Blog, details to follow) 1. This Is Marketing by Seth Godin Godin, Seth. This[…]
Learning How to Draw by Henry Toll
Four years ago, I got into guitar solos. I would listen to a song and skip to the point where the solo happens and then do it repeatedly. I found[…]
Ava Yang: Annotated Bibliography
Ava’s Annotated Bibliography Senior Project 2022 The Writer Files podcast: Reid, Kelton, host. The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience. New Media Dojo, 2015– , https://writerfiles.libsyn.com/ In The[…]
Annotated Bibliography – Olivia Propp
Citation: Dunning, Jennifer. “DANCE VIEW; The Simple Secret of Teaching Dance.” The New York Times, 15 Sept. 1991, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/arts/dance-view-the-simple-secret-of-teaching-dance.html?searchResultPosition=1. Katherine Dunham, creator of the Dunham technique, explains how dance is[…]
Those Impacted – Ely Silverman
My project will be a photojournalist narrative project documenting the individuals whose lives have been affected by the criminal legal system including prisoners’ families, corrections and police officers, judges, lawyers,[…]
Ronaldo Tineo – Annotated Bibliography
Rodriguez, Clara. Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood. 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 2008. Clara Rodriguez, a professor of sociology at Fordham University, uses this[…]
Bibliography
Protect Our Winters: https://protectourwinters.org/about-pow/ “About POW.” Protect Our Winters, https://protectourwinters.org/about-pow/. Accessed 29 March 2022. Protect our winters is an organization that strives to bring change in regards to[…]
Tilda Sutter – Annotated Bibliography
Schwartz, J.M., Cook, T. Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory. Archival Science 2, 1–19 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435628 In Archives, Records, and Power: The Making of Modern Memory, authors[…]
Theater’s Role in Anti-Racism, Social Justice, and Liberation.
The focus of my project will be to explore the role that theatre has played and continues to play in anti-racism, social justice, and liberation for groups of color. Throughout[…]
Margaret MacGillivray – Annotated Bibliography
Kenny, Paul J. “Mechanisms of Nicotine Addiction.” Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2020. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/content/11/5/a039610.full In this article, Paul J Kenny, a neuroscientist[…]
Margaret MacGillivray – Immersion In Neuroscience Research
Ever since I took Daniel Li’s Neuroscience class, I’ve been fascinated by the field. There was a specific quote that stuck out to me: “Everything Psychological is Simultaneously Biological.” Essentially[…]
Grace Burns- Annotated Bibliography
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel. Performance by Diana Vreeland, directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Frédéric Tcheng, and Bent Jorgen Perlmutt, 2012. For decades, Diana Vreeland was one of[…]
Piper Jassem – Annotated Bibliography
Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Directed by Bert Stern, performances by Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry, Chico Hamilton, Dinah Washington, and Anita O’Day, New Yorker Films / Raven Films[…]
ZE Annotated Bibliography
Meaning of the Holy Quran by Ahmad Hamid and Mohamed Hamed, Dar El Shorouk, 2011. The first text I will explore is the Qur’an. Specifically, I will read Hamid, Ahmad,[…]
Earthsea Proposal Part 2
Bibliography: Earthsea Annotated Bibliography Schedule: Monday Reading/writing for essay, painting Tuesday At school: meeting with James, painting, & advisory Wednesday Reading/writing for essay, volunteering at Ansche Chesed Hebrew School[…]
Stella Kekalos- Annotated Bibliography
Casey, Don. Inspecting the Aging Sailboat. International Marine, 2005. Don Casey has written many books on boat maintenance and repair and is a highly respected voice in the boating world.[…]