Final

This is it. Grades are due to the registrar this afternoon, and with that, this semester, my first at UMW, will be officially concluded. I thought I'd use this occasion to post a blog entry here summing up what I think I've learned so I can put some perspective on what has been a truly momentous few months -- both personally, and professionally.

They say that having a baby changes everything. I don't know if that's true, but for me anyway, having a baby is a lot cooler than knowing you're going to have a baby soon but having to wait for her. It is pretty amazing to see her grow and start (already) turning into a little person. Cool little girl.  read more »

I really enjoyed creating this final project. I think it was a great end to a pretty cool semester. I was debating between doing an ARG and a short story. However, I ended up choosing a short story because I felt that my ideas could be expressed more clearly in a short story than an ARG. Once I began to think about all the movies and short stories we've read, I began to find connections within each one. I found that each one focused on a reality that was unlike our own and that each of these realities were undefinable. I especially focused on Level Real of Avalon where that reality was static and posed the question if it was real or not. In my story, I tried to pose that same question, how do we define reality? and is our definition of reality the right one? My story deals with the idea of dementia and schizophrenia and how those realities connect to our own. I guess you just have to read the story for yourself because it has a twist ending that I'd rather not give away. This semester has definitely taught me to look at what I consider reality very differently. Like someone previously said, for all we know, we could be sitting in a comatose in a nursing home.  read more »

For my final project, I documented, in essay form, a game that I wanted to create for my final project. Though I didn't have the time I wanted to finish the project, I believe the essay more than makes up for it. It is funny and an interesting read. I don't think that it is something anyone else would really want to write about though I'm sure there are some that felt the same way as I did at times during the course. It's been a pleasure...

For my final project, I chose to write a short story.  read more »

I decided to go with the traditional essay for my final essay in explaining what ARG's have in common and the possibilities of what individuals could do with ARG's.