Week 10

To begin Monday off there was a meeting with Leilah, Emily, Brian, Matt, Dean, and Chandan to discuss what had been come up with so far. The pieces of the board were the main topic of discussion. How well they could be seen, how appeasing to the eye they were, could they be read on the board, and so on. There was about a two-hour discussion about this and other aspects of the game. Once the meeting was done I had barely a 10-minute meeting with Leilah showing her what I had come up with. I really wish she was here more often to share what was happening and to discuss what was going on. With Tia gone at this point I felt pretty lost and wasn't sure what to do. I wasn't able to get the switch method done, so I figured there had to be something better I could do with my time. I asked Leilah and she shot an e-mail over to Matt asking when he would have new test pieces I could try out, but until then I figured I'd finish up the gesture transcriptions I had left. So the rest of the day I did gesture transcription. 

On Tuesday I went and picked up the new pieces that Matt had created. Four were just the semi new old ones with black backgrounds, and the others were made of paper with green, black, and a pavement colored background. I thought that he was going to bold the new pieces like I had suggested, but every time he made new pieces they were just the same colors we had before, but lightened or darkened. The red and orange pieces were still pretty difficult to tell which was which and now he added yellow, so this yellow blended with the green. However the blue stood out pretty well. So for the rest of the day I had to re-test all of the new colors again. Spent all day doing that and took a quick crack at the switch case again.

Wednesday was sort of an off day. Wasn't quite into working, so I tried to focus on what all needed to be done as a whole.

Tia returned on Thursday and waited for me to finish the color testing. I couldn't find any way to record gray and I'm pretty sure I went through every combination possible. Once I finished all I had to write was that I couldn't find a combination for that color, then I had to e-mail Matt to see if it was possible that I use the projector. He had not responded and I had finished all of my transcribing tasks, so Tia told me to work on anything I had to DREU. 

Friday was pretty easy going. I finished up a few more gesture transcriptions and then Chandan took me out for lunch and we got to talking about the overall experience and schooling itself. It was nice to talk to someone who has been through the experience of school and what it is all worth. It was a nice easy going day and I was thankful to have been able to finish out so well.

I was also very excited to be going home and seeing my family after missing them for ten weeks. This was a great and trying experience. It was definitely worth it.