This week in painting we started a new painting with a model that I really like! We’ll have her for 8 sessions, which I’m really excited about. I’m already feeling good about where this painting is going! In math, we’re chuggin’ along through this chapter and we have a test the week after next. In science, we’ve started presenting our research presentations, which are actually very interesting. They’re all based on current topics of science, so this week, some of the topics were: Global Warming and its effect on New England, Schizophrenia, Government Surveillance, and Current American Diet. My research project on Birth Control in the 21st Century is due next week, eek! This week, we also all presented on a different element of the periodic table- mine was Phosphorus! (which is the red stuff on the end of a match, did you know?)
Also on Tuesday, we talked about our new Seminar project: Wish Fulfillment. I’m still working on a few ideas so I will have to get back to you 🙂 In the afternoon, we watched a couple of movies about time, which were really interesting. One of them, called Run Lola Run, centered around a specific hectic 20 minutes in a woman’s day, which could have gone a bunch of different ways. The way it was organized was really neat!
The most interesting part of my week was working on my Contemporary Trends project! The assignment was to design QR Codes (those things you scan with your phone!) that lead to a website, image, or text, and stick them places that are significant to where the code leads. I chose to design a couple simple websites that show how I feel about the lack of representation of women and people of color in politics and in the media. I posted codes that led to both of these sites around the State House and a few different news channels around Boston! The third code I did led to this infographic, which centers around consent and how people should be thinking about it. I think consent is a rising issue surrounding rape culture, especially situations surrounding college students. I thought colleges around Boston would be the perfect place for these little info bits! I also posted a couple consent codes in Victoria’s Secret, since they had their own little publicity thing with consent not too long ago (more about that here).
 