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May 25, 2021

 Today was our last day of senior project before Express Fest tomorrow. It's pretty crazy to think about. These last two weeks have gone by incredibly fast, filled with both many highs albeit a few lows. For this final day, Max and I simply sat down and recorded a really light hearted segment for our final episode. We also thought it would be fun to walk around campus interviewing random students, asking them what their favorite songs are currently. Olivia Rodrigo, young and upcoming pop star, dominated many of these such interviews. I finished the night off with some editing, and worked on my final reflection. We also set up a plan for express fest tomorrow, we are pretty excited about it. Hope to see you there!

May 24, 2021

And so we head into our final week. Max and I woke up and decided it was best to get some stuff done before our seminar, as we knew we wouldn't be very productive in the afternoon. We recorded a bit before, and then went off to the JEDI meeting with Lori and Will. Afterwards, we hit lunch, and then returned back to the studio (our room) to get a bit more done before going off to play some tennis with a bunch of friends. It looks like we are in great shape and slated to finish off with a great episode. I can't believe we are so close to graduation. 

Weekly Reflection

Weekly Reflection     The second week of our senior project went smoothly, and I am very happy with what we were able to produce. We stayed on track this week, publishing two episodes as planned. Our work schedule followed pretty similar to the previous week. It is a little surreal to think that we only have three days left of senior project, and six until graduation.  For these last three days, Max and I have one last episode to record. We will likely split the recording between Monday and Tuesday, trying out some different ideas and just getting some mass of content available for when we go to edit it all. Our final editing and episode will then be pushed out by Wednesday night, with editing done over the course of the morning and afternoon. We hope to include repeated segments but also mix in new stuff. The most difficult challenge this week was definitely rallying to get some new ideas down on paper for us to record. We had some really great ideas but tr...

May 22, 2021

 After a beautiful day and vaccine shot, we woke up this morning feeling pretty groggy. I felt mostly fine, simply a little fatigued, by Max was hit pretty hard, and neither of us were in a mood to try and sit down and record. Instead, I went over what we had so far in terms of recordings, and began editing them together. I didn't do too much work today, as it was a saturday and we were still on schedule. It was spent mostly lying around with friends and going swimming. After working hard all week, we thought it would be best not to kill ourselves anymore than the shot had. We both went to the color fight though, and it was a total blast. 

May 21, 2021

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 Vaccine day! Both Max and I got our shots today, around mid morning, leaving our schedule a bit up in the air. We tried to get a little work done in the morning, but it was far too nice out to sit inside our room, so we were pretty unsuccessful. We were able to nail down a plan for the following days, which was nice and relieved some stress. In the afternoon I headed off to Tilton for my final sports competition at Proctor. We swept their team, which was a fun send-off for my last game. Returning to school, it had begun to rain some, and I was beginning to feel a little exhausted so I spent the night doing a little editing on some of the segments. 

May 20, 2021

 Back to business today. While we found ourselves a little lazy as we woke up, by the afternoon we were back in the studio. We tried a bunch of different things out. Some videos, some audio segments, but eventually we were both just about done so we signed off for the day. We decided to push back the third episode out a few days and instead focus on the video segments we had been toying with. We still needed some more ideas though, so we mostly worked on that, as is usual, for the rest of the day. Hopefully we can get our next episode out either Friday or Saturday! 

May 19, 2021

Another mostly chill day. We really needed some new ideas to get started on the next episode. Luckily for us, however, we had lots of responses to our posts and began crafting an outline with these responses for recording tomorrow. Today was such a beautiful day that most of was spent outside, and as such no real recording was accomplished. We were okay with this though, I wouldn’t consider it a lost day in any measure.