Last week, I finished carving my linoleum block, and worked feverishly toward my goal of having proof prints ready for assessment on Friday. I didn’t quite make this goal, having just printed them tonight, but they are finally done! Continue reading
Brandon and I started off this week with meeting with T. Deb. She was able to give us insight of where the two of us might want to go from here. We all agreed that our research so far has been successful, and hope that the next steps would be to continue research on treatments. We hope to find a survey about bipolar disorder and give that out to the upper school. Continue reading
For the past two weeks I’ve been gearing up to start writing my next story! Since the Mesopotamians are going to be my focus for this one, I decided to begin with some basic research on their culture and beliefs. So I’ve been reading Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, an excellent overview (as the title would suggest) about Mesopotamian daily life and culture. My focus was, of course, on the religion section. But one subsection caught my eye: Sorcerers, Exorcists, and Diviners. This span of 20 or so pages was full of wonderful information about the Mesopotamian belief in magic.
I did some remixing this week and a lot of collaborating. Continue reading
This week, I finally had a phone call with Robert Blake Whitehall, author of the Ben Blackshaw books, Westtown alum, and my mentor for this project. The whole conversation took roughly an hour, ranging from my interest in writing to a general critique of the story so far. Continue reading
“What are they doing under your mattress?”
“They work like cushions, you know. Support my back.”
“Jeez, you aren’t too smart, are you?”
In recent weeks my blogging has fallen into a rut. while representing my week’s learnings in these retrospectives has provided critical insight in to my work so far; I fear that it does not get to the true heart of what this is all about. This experience is not about going through the motions of taking a class, nor is it about memorizing syntax and reciting it to you all. This experience is about gaining real life skills. In this week’s blog I will not be teaching you how to make a spell checker, or teaching you syntax; I will be telling you about how the story of a project of mine.
This week I tested out what I made, as I’ve started to accept that what seems like it should work in the computer doesn’t always work out in real life. However, the results I got back confirmed what the computer said should happen, so that was a pleasant surprise.
In my last blog post published two weeks ago, I wrapped up my research on the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship with a detailed examination of companies such as Tom’s and Warby Parker. Over last week I switched the focus of my research onto identifying the significance of a mission (statement) for a startup company. And just like innovation, a correct mission, often introduced in a concise but wise mission statement, can help a company in multiple ways, including raising its market value by attracting additional customers, and solving practical problems present in our society nowadays.
I spent my time this week looking though SoundCloud and researching more about reviews. I found both tasks rewarding this week since I found a song that I really liked and was able to write a review for it and what I found in my research was very interesting. Continue reading
