One thing that’s been on my mind recently is how we spend our time and energy. We only get so much of it in a day, and it’s very quickly expended. It’s a very obvious point, yet I find it resonates anyway. My concept is that I would make a board of sorts that has…

For my contribution to the Museum of Underappreciated Truths, I decided to make my project around a topic I’m involved in and passionate about: The benefits of joining a fraternity. The reason I chose to do this is because joining my fraternity has greatly impacted my life for the better, so much so that I…

After following the Birds Aren’t Real movement on social media and news, despite the movement seeming to gain momentum it is still an uncommon and underappreciated belief amongst people. For my Interactive Touch Project I thought it would be funny and interesting to explore this idea that birds aren’t real and are rather government spies…

For my interactive touch project, I was thinking of creating a somewhat immersive scene that you can interact with. To go along with “the museum of undeniable truths” I decided to go with the idea of “not everyone is always their true self”. In this café setting, the use will be sitting down at a…

For my project I just wanted to bring attention to the wonders of having a place you can call home. I think it’s important that we who have homes appreciate that ability to sleep, eat, and exist in a sheltered, warm place. I want to create a diorama, mostly out of cardboard, that represents the…

With Autumn quickly approaching and the atmosphere around WPI working hard to achieve a crispy cool perfection (you can especially feel it in the early morning!), I felt that it was only appropriate to share the nostalgic feeling that Autumn provokes through this project. I aim to set up several items that remind me of…

For my interactive touch project, I had to choose an unappreciated truth that I wanted to reflect in the art piece. Something that came to my mind was how people take the music they listen to for granted, as some people don’t think about what makes the song. Oftentimes I discuss a piece of music…

I wanted to showcase the usefulness of dandelions, which most consider pesty weeds. Many people value the aesthetic of their gardens to the point of spraying harmful chemicals on these gentle yellow flowers! These little “weeds” actually have so much to offer. Although the flowers themselves are nice to look at, they have other great…

For my project, I thought it would be interesting to explore the sense of touch, especially considering that this is an interactive touch project. The sense of touch in my opinion is the most underappreciated — we all have favorite music, foods, and smells, and appreciate visual art, but we don’t often think about how…

For my interactive touch project, I really wanted to somehow bring in poetry to the audio tools available with Max and what we’ve already tried with the Makey Makey. One of my recent favorite poets is Fahria Roisin. She’s an Australian-Canadian poet who writes about her identity as a queer South Asian Muslim woman. My…

For my interactive touch project I aim to explore the concept of reality, and how other people’s perceptions can act as an extension of our own to ground us in reality. For my piece, I aim to make two sets of eyes and ears from different entities. When the user makes contact with just one…

For my interactive touch concept, I was admittedly really caught up and struggling with an idea. However, after a lot of brainstorming and discussion with friends, I remembered what Professor Chery once told our class in the past: Nothing is Holy. This is an axiom that I follow for most things in my life. At…

In my psychology course, we were discussing how on average, a person will only spend 10% of their time in the present moment. 90% of the time, a person will think back to something in the or plans in the future. In the same class, we also talked about how a majority of cultures around…

For the project I want to dive deep into a topic that I have seen was not widely accepted to me personally and it is growth mindset. Growth mindset is often compared to what is known as a fixated mindset, fixated mindset means that you believe that when you are not good at a task…

This is why I don’t understand why many people try to change their identities to match those around them. You are who you are and you shouldn’t change it (unless it is hurting you or others). The concept applies to both physical and mental changes to a person. The sketch I have is like a…

For my interactive touch piece, I wanted to highlight the beauty of bugs. A lot of people are grossed out or scared of bugs, but many of them are beautiful, gentle, living beings! Moths are always seen as pests, but are harmless and can be just as pretty as butterflies. I wanted to incorporate the…

For my interactive touch project, one of the first personal ‘truths’ which came to my mind was a contradicting idea where from different types of sci-fi/fantasy media there are often messages such as “everyone is the same” and “accepting differences.” I love both of these ideas, but they are contradictory from a definition standpoint. So,…