#senior thesis
Got a little present for you guys! Here’s the magazine cover from my recent GGA!
Oh? You haven’t seen my animation yet? Well here it is!
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Here it is everyone! My second Game Grumps animation AND my senior thesis!
Man, what an incredible journey! Originally I was going to do a Truffle Troopers animation for my thesis, but after what happened at the Game Grumps Live show in Philly (full story here), I changed my thesis to another Game Grumps animation! It was the best decision of my life!
Gotta thank my friends, family, peers, Vernon Shaw, and you guys for all of the support! In times of doubt and frustration, you guys helped me get through it! Thank you so much! It means a lot to me!
Man, I had such a great time with this…I might do another one~
Though don’t expect it in the next few months, I need a break haha!
Alright! Here’s the rough animation of my GGA! Fully completed, but needs some improvement. I’m gonna go back to a few scenes and fix them up a bit.
So yeah, this is it for this semester! Next semester I’m going to cleanup and color everything!
Stay tuned everyone!
Thesis Show 1- March, 14-18
Reception date: Wednesday, March 16, 5pm-8pm
Faux magic card designs for my senior seminar/thesis: The creation of fantasy illustrations designed for faux magic: the gathering cards and based on the aesthetics of african/haitian/tribal cultures.
All faux cards were created at http://mtgcardsmith.com/
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Thethesis orals board of Sam Williams-Baron ’21 was a hand-raising experience! Prof. Noelwah Netusil reports that Sam was in a Vollum classroom, and the lights kept going off, so he had to wave his hands every 15 minutes to turn them back on. The assembled faculty members decided to celebrate the end of his oral defense by waving their hands too!
Pictured (clockwise from top left): Jeff Parker[economics],Kelly Chacón[chemistry],Yalçın Özkan[sociology],Sam Williams-Baron ’21, and Noelwah Netusil[economics].
Sam’s thesis is titled “Investigating the Effects of Wildfires on Local Labor Markets and Economic Activity.” See his card and others on the digital laurels board: https://www.reed.edu/thesis-board/
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Thestudio art department invites the Reed community to an exhibition of senior-thesis projects!
Open from May 7 through 17; see access details.
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Autumn Studying Challenge
7th November - What do you prefer: winter or autumn?
Autumn. Winter is too cold for me!
Some old pictures–honestly I’ve been very unproductive, though I did half watch Antony and Cleopatra for class (instead of reading it lol but I wasn’t paying attention very well). Also bc I moved my flight I realized I only have like less than 20 days left in the UK??? Absolutely wild. I feel like there’s so much left that I want to do here, but also I’m excited to go home, see my girlfriend (who actually doesn’t know I’m coming back early it’s a surprise), and buckle down on my thesis (I’ve been so unproductive on it while I’ve been here lol)
Autumn Studying Challenge
3rd November - Splash in mud puddles or walk on crunchy leaves?
Crunchy leaves
I’ve had a massive headache all day but I had a meeting with my advisor and overall it’s not been too bad
☕ Wednesday Coffee Shop Adventures
I was going to go somewhere else but they were like super busy so I ended up at this very nice cafe that also sells vinyls. Good vibes. My mocha and veggie grilled cheese were amazing too. 10/10
Autumn Studying Challenge
2nd November - Vanilla or cinnamon?
Vanilla for sure
Not super productive today honestly but that’s okay. I did do a little bit of reading for my senior honors thesis (which I really need to work on yikes)
Autumn Studying Challenge
28th October - Haunted house or Halloween party?
Neither, but if I had to pick probably party bc I’m really jumpy and hate scary things
Spent most of the day planning my weekend. Emailed a couple people. Realized I’m like super behind on my senior thesis and have loads to do
Trying to force myself to eat even though I’m already anxious about today because my senior thesis defense is this afternoon!!! I’m sure it’ll be fine… But I’m still nervous!
This week is more hopeful than last week; my senior thesis is just about done (my defense is next week, yikes), and 83 pages long right now. I have to get caught up on my other classes (I’m desperately behind right now) but I’m feeling like I can do it after a week of being so stressed I nearly cried that ended up okay. Happy spring y'all.
Hey it’s March and every day closer to graduation leaves me with more existential dread. Every time someone mentions how quick the semester is going I have to try not to panic
I have… So much going on and I don’t want to do any of it??? I have to email my advisor about my defense committee but I want to be able to send her the revisions I told her were done but they’re not and it needs to happen today but I don’t know how to piece all of this together. And also literally all I want to do is hang out with my girlfriend and I can’t which should definitely be illegal
Some pictures from being back on campus–this semester is going by so quickly
I’m faced with existential dread about the idea of graduating at the end of it–though I have to figure out my credits and make sure I’m cleared to graduate first, and get though all my classes and senior thesis (my advisor gave me a books worth of articles at our meeting this week). But I’m 0 for 3 on my grad school applications which means I have to figure out what to do next year and the anxiety of it is not helping me focus on anything.
It’s February! I’m busy (back on campus regularly for the first time in a while which feels weird) and digging into revising my thesis a lot.
My girlfriend came to visit this past weekend which was really really nice because I miss her. Hopefully I’ll be able to go visit her soon, because I want to see her concert next weekend but idk if it’ll happen yet :(
Also I got an email yesterday from one of the grad school programs I applied to that I haven’t opened yet bc I’m scared. I don’t think I’ll get in? But I don’t know if I want to know right now. I can’t decide if getting emailed so early (it feels early idk) means they didn’t get many applications or they didn’t accept me. And I don’t think I’ll get in anywhere but I don’t know what to do next year if it isn’t grad school.
Roughly an hour until my meeting with my advisor to talk about my senior/honors thesis (draft of)
In other news I’ve had all of my classes now and I think it’ll be difficult coursework but I’m looking forward to it. I suspect a significant portion of my psych class are there for the general education credit and idk if our prof knows (he’s new I’m pretty sure) but he seems cool lol
First day of spring semester and my first time back on campus for more than like an hour and a half since we went home in 2020–tbh not loving it. I’m going to need a routine bc I have almost 4 hours to kill twice a week between my classes. And I need to email my advisor about a meeting we scheduled for Friday that I want to move (whoops).
Anyway, I hope everyone’s semester is off to a less shaky start than mine! (I am, literally and unstoppably, shaking)
Working on my last chapter for my honors thesis–and I need to email my advisor back. Not exactly looking forward to spring semester starting on Wednesday but it’s my last one!
Also I’ve been worrying about getting sick, esp with how much I’ve been working bc I can feel my immune system taking a hit with all the late nights and less than stellar eating/drinking/exercising (which I’m honestly not super good about anyway lol). So I’ve been drinking lots of orange juice and I’m sharing what’s in my cup (and what it’s inspired by lol)!
So I used to work at a coffee shop and we had a (admittedly unpopular but it was on the menu) drink called a creamsicle, which you made like this:
- Fill a 20oz cup with ice
- Add a shot of vanilla (probably about 2oz? We didn’t measure we just counted to three)
- Fill with orange juice
- Top off with half and half
And it’s good! But that shop closed at the beginning of covid and I’m at home without regular access/need for some of these things, so I’ve been using a smaller cup with no ice, and just adding whipped cream to my orange juice for a little bit of the vibes. And it’s really getting me through some of these mornings (plus my coffee lol I have at least 2 mugs a day these days)
New book! Bc individual copies of books are easier to cite lol
Wrapped up my third chapter earlier this afternoon and now it’s time to start on chapter 4 (technically I didn’t finish 2 so I’ll have to go back and write another section of that if I have time but I can turn in the draft without it I think so we’ll see. This is the last full chapter to write though!)
Also got an email today that my university is requiring either double masking or kn95s on campus and they’re going to provide us with one (1) kn95. I’m not loving it bc disposable masks are not very sustainable but safety first I guess? I’ll have to be on campus every day of the week this semester which will be a big change from my life since March 2020 and I can’t say I’m looking forward to it
Hi yes just me trying to remember the plot and details of a book I haven’t read in like years to write about it for my honors thesis and it’s not going well y'all. Had to ask my family for a word for “being aggressive to scare someone into doing what you want” yesterday (spoiler alert I was looking for intimidate) and I think my brain is melting. One week left until my draft is due and I’m freaking out slightly.
So I got exactly nothing done yesterday, which was really bad for me mentally but probably good like physically/in terms of my project because it let things stew and develop a little bit. Still made me kind of frustrated and upset with myself though, because my project is due in just over a week and I still have more than half of it to write.
(Calling myself entirely unproductive yesterday isn’t strictly true, because I folded my laundry and finished a book and went grocery shopping with my mom, but I didn’t work on my essay because I was just so tired and couldn’t focus on it and it made me feel awful.)
So today’s all about getting stuff done–at least something, though realistically I need to write two sections/long paragraphs a day in order to finish my draft on time so that’s the minimum goal–and I’m still struggling but at least I’m getting somewhere today. Still feel a bit like I’ve bitten off more than I can chew though (and that’s my fault bc I basically didn’t work on the project all summer/autumn and have left it to the last minute like an idiot).
So I hope everyone else’s day is going better than mine!
So I’m calling the rough draft of my first chapter finished, as of about four hours ago today. And I’ve been staring at this sheet of paper since then trying to figure out where to go next and how to start it.
My plant is blooming! (Came unidentified but my mom says it’s a spider plant and like she’s probably right. Pictures are two of the three flowers that have bloomed so far–the first is done–but there’s more buds so more to come! Also it probably needs to be repotted lol)
Also hard at work on my honors thesis, due in less than two weeks (the first draft) and which is almost entirely unwritten because apparently I have no self control and also hate myself. So I’m writing it by hand because somehow it seems to help me work on it? Idk y'all. I’m trying to not be too hard on myself–my advisor is phenomenal and it’s only a first draft so if it’s not fully finished or like spectacular that should be okay, but I do need to have something of like revisable quality to hand in so I’m working on making myself do it.
Also considering scheming a way to go visit my girlfriend this weekend (unlikely but like I miss her so…), which is maybe not the best choice for productivity but I can’t find it in me to care. (Also it’s unlikely so not too worried but a girl can dream)
(finally) working on my 2022 bullet journal set up–I had a whirlwind winter break, including getting to spend loads of time with my girlfriend and celebrating another of my little brothers becoming an adult (!!!!)
After I’ve got this set up, I need to spend my January cracking down on my senior honors thesis, the first draft of which is due at the end of the month and which is as of yet almost entirely unwritten (whoops). Wish me luck!
