Project description
My luck in great working group members may have run out. In this project I had group members that could work but chose to slack often. I hard to a part of the project completely on my own. I found that when enough time had passed they started on their work. They completed the zine and I edited the parts that needed fixing. The presentation was very hard for me to do because there was so much information that I needed to compress and I needed to make the presentation longer. I hope I get better group members to work with next time but if it comes down to it again I could work with them again.
The Humanities portion of this project was my favorite. We got to read the book Fahrenheit, that I found immensely interesting. I think the thing that drew me to the book was the feeling that anything could happen. I was constantly wondering who was going to coming through the next , metaphorical, door. I also found researching about the Cuban totalitarian regime and creating a presentation about it. I got to do the presentation by myself so I was able to make it in the ways that I wanted. I was comfortable with the way I was making it and it really relaxed me. I found relating thermodynamics to Fahrenheit 451 really strange but it was interesting to relate two things that seem to be unrelated.
I found learning about thermodynamics to be complex, and I think there is much that passed by my brain, however it seems simple enough in my head. Connecting Fahrenheit 451 to thermodynamics threw me off because it was more of a Humanities thing than physics, and I didn't think Mr. Schwartz dabbled in pretend things. Basically I wrote a bunch of notes from slides and thats where I learned the most. This was one of my favorite physics Chapters because I understood it and there wasn't too much math involved.
The creation of our Stirling Engines in Engineering was boring. It took way too long to build them and none of the students in the class could get one to work. we didn't have the skill sets or the proper instruction to make them work, so instead we made something that a Stirling Engine would look like. My group worked surprisingly good with this part of the project but we still weren't able to make a working engine. I learned how the engine should of worked, but only after we created an engine that didn't work. I think if we were able to get better instructing and use better materials than cans we would have been able to do a better job.
On exhibition night I thought that the work was super overhyped. I wasn't that exited, and it didn't feel like a real exhibition. The first exhibition was super professional, interesting, and generally had more information with a better final product. But I guess that since we had only had a couple weeks, it should have a smaller final product. I think my strongest learning outcome is from the humanities portion. I generally enjoyed it and there were many things that I got out from it. A place of growth I saw was my ability to do the reading homework fairly easily. I used to have trouble with it. I think the most important lessons from the project are from the book Fahrenheit 451. I learned that people can change on mater their state of mind. all they need is a little push, Similar to a Stirling Engine.
The Humanities portion of this project was my favorite. We got to read the book Fahrenheit, that I found immensely interesting. I think the thing that drew me to the book was the feeling that anything could happen. I was constantly wondering who was going to coming through the next , metaphorical, door. I also found researching about the Cuban totalitarian regime and creating a presentation about it. I got to do the presentation by myself so I was able to make it in the ways that I wanted. I was comfortable with the way I was making it and it really relaxed me. I found relating thermodynamics to Fahrenheit 451 really strange but it was interesting to relate two things that seem to be unrelated.
I found learning about thermodynamics to be complex, and I think there is much that passed by my brain, however it seems simple enough in my head. Connecting Fahrenheit 451 to thermodynamics threw me off because it was more of a Humanities thing than physics, and I didn't think Mr. Schwartz dabbled in pretend things. Basically I wrote a bunch of notes from slides and thats where I learned the most. This was one of my favorite physics Chapters because I understood it and there wasn't too much math involved.
The creation of our Stirling Engines in Engineering was boring. It took way too long to build them and none of the students in the class could get one to work. we didn't have the skill sets or the proper instruction to make them work, so instead we made something that a Stirling Engine would look like. My group worked surprisingly good with this part of the project but we still weren't able to make a working engine. I learned how the engine should of worked, but only after we created an engine that didn't work. I think if we were able to get better instructing and use better materials than cans we would have been able to do a better job.
On exhibition night I thought that the work was super overhyped. I wasn't that exited, and it didn't feel like a real exhibition. The first exhibition was super professional, interesting, and generally had more information with a better final product. But I guess that since we had only had a couple weeks, it should have a smaller final product. I think my strongest learning outcome is from the humanities portion. I generally enjoyed it and there were many things that I got out from it. A place of growth I saw was my ability to do the reading homework fairly easily. I used to have trouble with it. I think the most important lessons from the project are from the book Fahrenheit 451. I learned that people can change on mater their state of mind. all they need is a little push, Similar to a Stirling Engine.