Tag Archives: citizenship

                In my Humanities class Policy, we worked on our final action project that was about getting our feet in the streets.  We had to align our self with an organization that was preserving a common. We were allowed to work in groups so I worked with 5 Read More…

                  In Unit of our Math & Baseball course, 162 we learned a lot about segregation in sports. Before I took this class I knew a lot about the baseball because of learning about Jackie Robinson in history classes. I never knew how much he impacted baseball Read More…

In my light and sound class, we are studying time telling devices in the past, present, and future. We studied the sun dial among other time telling devices.Then my class had to come up with ideas for our own time telling device. We went on a mental journey to the past/future and come back with Read More…

For our Who Am I course, we had to create our own philosophical question. We started with a guiding question, that we thought was worth answering. Mine was: What is worth pursuing in life? I chose this question because I thought it would be interesting to see different people’s opinions of life.  Our final project Read More…

For the second season of Hurricane Season course, we created artistic piece that illustrates a sharp connections between systems of oppression; in other words environmental problems. We had choice of how our artistic piece was going to look like; the three were conceptual, visual and poetic map or web. I chose to do a poem Read More…

For the Hurricane Season course, we collected testimonies and turned them into an organized narrative by compiling different voices.  First I had to find three to four people who experienced or were familiar with displacement of some sort. I interviewed three sources that lived as refugees in Tanzania and moved a lot because of civil wars in Burundi, Read More…

In our Math and Science course we are studying the language of the universe through light and sound. Our first unit we studied the fundamentals of electromagnetic physics and mathematics of a rainbow by making a spectrograph. We learned about how rainbows were made and studied the process of graphing it’s intensity and color. I Read More…

For my civic engagement unit we painted a mural. We had to do a 2 to 3 minute micromentary. In our micromentary we did a time lapse of us working, we did outside interviews with people who work with place-making, and lastly we shared our experiences through testimonies. We are going to have a workshop for parents and visitors Read More…

In my art class we built a kinetic sculpture. The sculpture was built our sculptures based out of an animal’s movement we chose. We did a blue print that had our sketches of our sculptures we built up. To learn more about my animal and my blue print please check out my artist statement with the blue Read More…

In the Art of Rhetoric course, I wrote my first college essay based on the question: why would Olin College be a good fit for me?  The purpose of this piece was to learn how to write a college essay, so that the admissions office may deeply understand who I am. I wrote my essay and shared with Read More…