My favorite brainstorming activity is either “follow the thread” or free writing because just getting my thoughts down on paper and organized helps me set up a basic template of […]

Science and art should be incorporated together, not as one single concept, but as two parts that work off each other. Steven Pinker, writer of “Science Is Not Your Enemy”, […]

B. Summary Jonah Lehrer’s main argument in “The Future of Science… Is Art?” is that art is a very important tool that can be used to help understand things that […]

I feel that I am achieving my annotation goals with ease. Annotating comes easy to me. Surrounding Context “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” was published originally by the World […]

After reading Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts”, I think that I did a decent job at not following her example for the most part. I kept my thoughts pretty clear […]

From my experience prioritizing global edits over local edits in my reviews of the two essays I read, I found that I was able to find things that did quite […]

Attempt 1 Metaphors are all around us in the world, yet we do not even think about how influential they are on our lives. They greatly impact the way we […]

Dhruv Khullar’s “The Trouble with Medicine’s Metaphors” is about how metaphors relating to diseases and illnesses can be construed in different ways, either positively or negatively.  The words and metaphors […]

I did notice differences in the text as I read it for a second time. When I first read the quote, “At a conceptual level, life is a journey, and […]

I liked the quote, “But it’s when we start testing our metaphors for their social and cognitive usability that design can become really powerful”. I feel like this means that […]