The main focus of the week has been working on our Pecha Kucha presentations. I spent the beginning of my week finishing my second book as I didn’t finish it as early as I thought I would. The rest of the time was spent finding my outside sources and trying to organize all of my thoughts. For the base of my project, I knew that I wanted to talk about race and identity, but other than that I really didn’t know what I was going to do. After reading both of my books, some ideas came to mind, but I was still struggling with how to put everything together. I’ve realized that all of the past projects we’ve done have been group based. Though we wrote individual papers for the Tragedy unit, we spent weeks collaborating and sharing our thoughts with each other. The I Believe video was very personal, but required less literary thought than usual. It has been difficult for me to do such an individualized project this time as I am so used to bouncing my thoughts and ideas off of other people. It wasn’t until around Thursday or Friday that I started feeling a little bit better about my project. I was beginning to find some sources, and was starting to put things together. I was able to talk a little bit with the people at my table which helped me a ton. I think simply saying things out loud helps me process ideas a lot better. I found an amazing Ted Talk that talks about Imposter Syndrome, which is something I have felt and seen, but never knew had a name. I didn’t learn about this until the end of my project but it has really shifted my perspective and it fits well with both of my books. I am excited to see how everything turns out as I’m really invested in my topic, I just hope I can do it justice. http://www.ted.com/talks/dena_simmons_how_students_of_color_confront_impostor_syndrome/transcript?language=en
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