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Music and Writing
As I sit on Crosland 7, facing the foggy outside on the due date of my project, some times I just take a pause from the writing and just think about the music I am listening to. Need somebodyWho can make it betterSomebodyWho can open up those gates– “Favorite Song” – Toosii (Feb 17, 2023)…
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Creating the Introductory Video
When I started this class, I had no idea what to expect. Back at registration, I knew I needed an ENGL1102 class, and this one seemed to fit into my schedule where I wanted it to. This first project was a little different from what I expected. I never took ENGL1101 since I had AP…
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Class Notes (Presentations)
Kara: Women’s Mental Health in Sports motivations: deliverable: challenges: next steps: Aditya: Taj Mahal and Red Fort goal: find and highlight more nuanced part of Indian history and links that are often overlooked audience: Indian history enthusiasts, followed by novelists and reading enthusiasts research: findings: challenges: deliverable: a short story (mystery, history, ~800 words) Nisarg:…
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Class Notes (Presentations)
Nikita, Aver, Anshul, Ishan: Debugging Maternity purpose: deliverable: question: How do varying maternity leave policies in tech companies have different impacts on women’s careers and family life around the world? findings: challenges: research areas: Since I am going into the software and programming industry, this project was quite interesting to see. I thought the part…
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Project Presentations
James: Training testing effects of types of training on basketball players deliverable: website w/ detailed training program, tips (such as form), and ways to improve current work: done with research challenges: Evan: TikTok deliverable: 5-7 minute video explaining to parents what makes TikTok popular format: findings: complications: Sebastian: Leitmotif studying music and film and how…
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Project Presentations
Fillipe: Project: Dungeons and Dragons campaign, but more of sci-fi/western, rather than with wizards and other aspects of “regular” DND Starting point: a previous adventure book, that is a bit closer to being more “modern” Why?: Fun to make and play a campaign entirely made yourself, including some past experiences to make up the project,…
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Project Presentations
Sarah project: a podcast about feminism in pop culture goal: “cancel culture” around feminism being too or not feminist enough, as well as language used. questions to be answered: current progress: todo: Ethan crowds in different areas have different humor, for example, Atlanta vs New York most comedians talk about things in their own life…
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Project Presentations
Ben: Chairs There wasn’t enough time to show enough information, and information found was often repetitive The chairs in the classroom are good for some, but also hated by many Nancy: Pokemon Go The game has come to become addicting, looking into the reasons why. the game has a lot of community, and causes people…
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Class Notes (Projects)
Project: Logan (Taylor Swift) Taylor Swift has had a multitude of albums as a part of different areas of her life. Albums take different phases and different sounds, for example, some where country while others were more modern “pop” or now ballad type-songs Deliverable: a podcast on Taylor’s life, with areas of music, lyrics, previous…
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Class Notes
My project is rewriting and designing ScratchDB, a system I created for analytics for a programming website by MIT. This system allows for searching users, projects, and posts, and also provides rankings for everything. I am working on designing a newer, faster version that replaces my currently nearly 2-3 year old design. My theme is…