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This major will help me prepare a career in the future by giving me the skills employers want in advertising and design. I either want to do free-lance design, or be employed full-time. If this major doesn’t work, my default… Continue Reading →

My greatest strengths in American Dilemmas include: My experience with social justice, and my ability to empathize or use the “sociological imagination”. For greater success in this course, I need to: Sign up for more volunteer opportunities to make sure… Continue Reading →

Part 1: Seeing an upperclassmen’s work is daunting. I was scared, thinking about all of the assignments I would have to do, how much better their work is than mine, how complicated those projects look. But seeing their work also… Continue Reading →

Part 1: The goal of the assignment was to take pictures on South Congress and illustrate how those pictures demonstrate the principles of Gestalt. I went about trying to achieve this goal by looking for Gestalt in the minuscule details… Continue Reading →

The Fallout series is a pentalogy of games starting with Fallout 1 in 1997. I chose this particular game as the piece I’d talk about in my blog post because I am currently playing one of the games, Fallout: New… Continue Reading →

Part 1 After analyzing my findings on my time tracker, I’ve seen that I spend a lot of time alone. Most of my free time is spent on homework or working on my own projects. I prioritize my boyfriend and… Continue Reading →

Part 1 The main points of the article are: Artists and entrepreneurs use the same creativity to be successful. Something artists can learn from their entrepreneurial cousins is to create a network of people to support them during the art… Continue Reading →

  Song Exploder Music is something that has consistently been a huge part of black culture for decades. Our biggest inspirations for modern music come from African slave songs, which influenced the Blues, which influenced Jazz and Country, which influenced… Continue Reading →

  Stellar To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this video. The flashing colors and random, split second scenes of what seemed to be random images, were stupefying at first. The quick flashes reminded me of… Continue Reading →

Where does Creativity Hide? I agree with Amy Tan that creativity is ambiguous. Trying to understand and harness creativity is as daunting as scaling a skyscraper. However, I feel that Amy Tan gave informative insight into the creative process. A… Continue Reading →