Where Will My Mind Take Me?
That is the question. The big question. The truth is, my future is ahead of me, whether I like it or not and I have to be prepared. But where to start? The mention of college and career, to most people, is very foreboding and causes lots of stress and apprehension. The goal of this project, The College Knowledge, is to help us figure out where to put our foot down and take the first step.
Career, Lifestyle, and Pursuit
We began this project with three things in mind - career, lifestyle, and pursuit or CLP. These were our main focuses as we researched our minds and colleges. For a while, I had a lot of trouble figuring out exactly what my CLP was. I didn't want to think about the future, I wanted to stay in the now. This made my project very difficult because, in order to research your college or even majors, you had to know what you wanted to do. Finally, though, I settled on two majors that have been on my mind for while: fine art and creative writing. For a long time, I have really enjoyed drawing, painting, creating, and writing. I was hesitant to chooses these, though, because everyone tells me that you can't create a career out of those. I didn't care, though. These are things I like to do and I will do them in my future even if it means being starving on the streets for a while before making my big break. Perhaps, also, I could be an illustrator for books and them write them myself. Anyways, for this creed, I chose University of California Berkeley for my school. Many may think this is an odd choice as UC Berkeley is not necessarily known for the arts but the location where it is in, is. San Francisco, where I imagine dreams come true. I know several writers and artists from that area who are inspirations to me and I intend to follow slightly in their footsteps.
The Paper
The Prezi
In addition to the paper I wrote, I created an 18 slide presentation incorporating the knowledge from my paper plus some new information on colleges and careers. This gave me an artistic outlet for displaying my CLP and accompanied me in my presentation that you will hear about later. Below is an aerial picture of my presentation. For the full presentation, please click on the photo or go to the link below it.
link: http://prezi.com/_d1xl-ys6zke/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
The Presentation
In order to feel confidence in and share our career, lifestyle, and pursuit decisions, each of us presented about it in front of our advisers and peers. Since I had two products to show - my paper and Prezi - this came easily and freely to me. I simply handed out my paper for my peers to observe as I presented my Prezi. Below is the link to a video of my full presentation and feedback:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AI2nbispijbndlR2ZPME1TdWM/view?usp=sharing