Week 9 Reflection

We spent much of our time working on our posters. We gained valuable feedback after presenting our progress so far on Tuesday and even more when we met with Kimberly on Thursday. The whole process of crafting our poster reminded me of our team building activities in June and when we first started building the narrative for our game. That’s because I didn’t shy away from suggesting a whole bunch of small ideas for our poster’s design, and by sharing, Curtis and Kris were able to provide feedback as well, further developing our ideas on how we can best represent our research. Also, I realized I may have become like my mom when working on the poster as she is very much a perfectionist and is analytical about every small thing she does.

For luncheon lectures, we had Elena Cotos and Wesley Lefferts. I found Elena’s presentation to be very insightful as it provided guiding tips when applying for graduate school while also detailing various programs at ISU meant to help during one’s graduate study. I really enjoyed Wesley’s presentation as well since it reminded me of how much fun I had when taking my human anatomy and physiology class in high school. There was a discussion afterwards about social media and content creation, and when asked to raise our hands if we thought Tik Tok is a good thing, well I did think about raising my hand but didn’t do it since I didn’t feel too informed about the topic. In my head, my thought process was simply: I have fun watching videos on Tik Tok, and fun is good, so Tik Tok is good.

Apart from work, we all also went to the movie theater and the water park. I always like going to movie theaters mostly because I like eating popcorn. As we waited for fresh popcorn, I walked over to the small lounge containing a small tv and some chairs. I became completely engrossed by whatever it was that was playing on the tv. Nadya found it funny since I was just standing there staring up close at gruesome scenes of prehistoric creatures eating each other alive. We then watched the Barbie movie which I found to be very entertaining; I didn’t expect the narrative to go that deep. At the water park, we spent some time at the pool. Because I felt a little cold, I was mostly doing short hops in the water as I listened to everyone talk. Rebekah said we all looked like “wet dogs” which I found to be funny. While interesting conversations were occurring under the tent later on, I found myself enthralled by a gyroscope that Kris gave to me to play with. There was also a large army of ants nearby. They seemed to have been carrying some white stuff back to a hole in the pavement. Amongst them was a strange ant that was larger than the rest and continually kept trying to climb my leg so yeah that guy eventually got flicked off somewhere.