Where were you when we began this process?

            My mind was a bit less broad and I think I had a better sense of the world.

Where are you now?

            I’m not terribly sure. The mind, like the universe, is ever expanding? That’s if there is a universe. That’s if I have a mind.

What’s been happening in between?

Kgould, Oak, J.Yoo, and I decided to do a version of Apples to Apples that we dubbed "GIST to GIST." We picked a game because we wanted something that would be interactive and fun that the whole class could participate in. Apples to Apples is composed of nouns and adjectives. Each round, a judge puts down an adjective. The other players anonymously submit nouns, and the judge picks the one that has the best association, whatever that means for them.

So naturally, we picked words that we've been using all semester long.

The most helpful thing to do when compiling them was for me to go through my class notes (all on the computer) and pick out words that either our professors used or that I used in commenting about something. A quick run of some nouns we used:

As our group sat down to think about our final presentation, we decided that we wanted to look at some of the big themes and ideas that we had discussed throughout the semester.  We decided that we thought it would be interesting to place these terms into a venn diagram.  When we first started to sort out the words we figured that there would be some that would go in the middle, but that there would also be some that very clearly applied only to literature or science.  As we started to talk more, however, it became more and more clear that every term was going to go in the middle.  I think that this really summed up our class for me because it traced my own journey through the class.  I came into the semester thinking that there would be some overlap, but a

For our final performance, my group created an online chat room about sex robots in which each of us took on anonymous personas. We participated in the chat from separate locations, and only one member (the one who created the chat room) knew who each of us were. This was both a fun and frustrating process. First of all, it made me realize the inefficiency of technology. I thought that creating my screen name and logging in to the chat would take but a few minutes. I was wrong. I had to have at least three people help me create an account, download the correct program, and figure out how to connect to the chat. Technology was not working for me. Because I have a Mac, I had to download a specific type of AIM, which then didn't seem to work with other members.