link to my portfolio slideshow on the shared drive
FRESHMAN YEAR
Fall 2017
MAJOR: English Secondary Education
4-year plan spreadsheet (I still use today; template linked)
Linguistics 202 cheatsheet for the final (I subscribed to Adobe cloud specifically to make this)
Spring 2018
MAJOR: English Secondary Education, planning 5 year Master’s track
SOPHOMORE YEAR
Fall 2018
MAJOR: English Secondary Education, probably not a Master’s anymore
Ink’s Slam Down the Walls slampoet Fall 2018
Spring 2019
MAJOR: English (dropped the Sec. Ed) CWR minor, taking 120 to internally
Had the legendary discussion with Dr. Hustis titled: “Do you really wanna get licensed as a teacher if you’re not gonna teach right outta college?: Maybe try IMM and Creative Writing.“
Participated in Campus Movie Fest, worked as a co-director and the post-producer in editing and motion graphics for the movie “Cereal” (can’t find a link)
Started working for the TCNJ Magazine (alumni magazine), interviewing and finding storyleads, editing stories, etc.
IMM 120, p5.js Unusual Clock project
IMM 120 final, p5.js Keep Chatting
LIT 499 capstone #1, Thinking with Portals: The Portal Franchise as a Critical Dystopia
JUNIOR YEAR
Fall 2019
MAJOR: English and IMM double major, CWR minor
CWR 306, Narrative of the White Man and the Brown Boy p5.js sketch
Mr. Rogers mini course, Mr Rogers quote generator
CWR 301, Designed fliers for the Visiting Writers Series:
Spring 2020
MAJOR: Eng, IMM, CWR
IMM 342 Interactive Storytelling final, Twine story about Augustin LePrince
IMM 280, Design Perspectives, Worked on Trenton Makes youtube channel (with the Trentoniana), mainly project management
IMM 271 IMM hits the Road, Adobe Spark project about a field trip to Utah to see National Parks
IMM 270 Game Studies & Design, final slideshow about my game Canal Towpaths
Link to my ‘sophomore review’ conducted… spring of my junior year lol, including projects from Game Design and IMM 110 (also taken Spring 2020)
The Takeaway
Major Themes: Writing, web design, “living on the web”, board game design, experience design, interactive storytelling / stories told interactively
Questions: Are there open questions or unexplored hunches? Is there a particular skill or medium you’d like to highlight, but aren’t able to with your existing projects?
Seems like I like to work with things online; there isn’t a single physical fabrication project (though I have made my own Halloween costume almost every single year)… But I like things that I can send to people online because often my family wants to see what I’m working on, or I’ll send it to my friend overseas. Also, I appear to like p5.js a lot (it’s a very easy interface and it writes similarly to Java, my first coding language). I think my three ideas outlined here each address my interests in different ways; the UI lesson plan relates to my interest in education, the ARG relates to interactive storytelling and puzzlesolving and design, and the Minecraft mod relates to my interest in video games and will hopefully open the door to many more mods to come.