2020 has been… rough. I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a difficult year for everyone. Months of quarantining due to COVID-19 has left me with a lot of time I neither expected nor wanted. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the simpler, carefree days of restaurant and concert-going of…
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An I’m-So-Proud-of-Myself Blog Post
Hello there! Welcome to this “I’m so proud of myself” blog post. I have big news! Drum roll please. . . As of December 2019, I am officially done with my Digital Media Master’s program at Northeastern University! Over the course of 32 months, I completed 13 courses and one semester-long thesis project, all while…
A Walk Through 5 of the Web Projects I’m Most Proud Of
Digital Accessibility: This site was included in a response to a civil rights lawsuit filed against Northeastern (as well as 49 other higher education institutions) on the grounds that many of the web properties for the university were not meeting digital accessibility standards. One of the main hopes in building this site was that it…
Learning from Higher Ed Marketers to Parody Higher Ed Marketing
Last month, I attended a higher education multimedia workshop in Philadelphia that I gained a ton of amazing insight from. At the workshop, I learned from leaders in university engagement, video production, podcasting, social media, and photography. I’ve dabbled in all of these subject areas, but it was so fascinating to learn from people that…
Honing Your Design Skills Through Relaxing Post-Work Painting
This will be a quick post, but I wanted to pop in briefly to talk about one of my newest pastimes: pour painting! Pour painting is a technique in which acrylic paint is mixed with some type of pouring medium (such as paint additive and water) and then poured onto a canvas in a variety…
Failures Becoming Successes: The Making of the Northeastern ITS Mascot
I want to tell you a story about how I learned that the biggest career failures can often lead (directly or indirectly) to some of the biggest career successes. In this case, I want to tell you the story about how I once created a drawing in 10 minutes that morphed into the mascot for…
An Amateur Programmer’s [Unfinished] Quest to Creating an Educational Jeopardy Game
I began coding in the spring of 2017; first, I became proficient with the language processing, and then I started learning html and css (which language should I learn next?). After learning some processing basics in my Programming Foundations Master’s course, I thought it would be neat to put my newfound coding skills to the…