Today was a very productive day in Felipe and Eliza's room. The first thing we did was to ATTACK the Learn@UW Quiz. Then we downloaded our portfolios from the web and worked on them for the first hour. Everyone was working on different projects for their portfolio. We all worked on various parts of our portfolios until about 1:45 and then A.J. and Felipe talked about goals for working on the Capstone project at home.
A.J. told us about how he started recording music in high school and how that eventually led him to be working for ITA. He also shared an analogy to help everyone get motivated: ITA is like water in a pot and each student is like an electric burner on the stove. At ITA, the instructors can make sure that the pot is there, that is doesn't have holes in it, and that it is full of water, but only the students can turn on the heat and make the water boil (and then make spaghetti or rice or something else wonderful)-- which means that only the students can take advantage of this opportunity and use it to its full potential. Everyone then blogged about the analogy that A.J. shared.
The very last thing everyone did was to finish their proposal and email it to the course instructors. It seems like everyone is getting interested in their projects and we are all excited to see what everyone does.
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