vanessasun I am working through The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, a book to help people rediscover their inner creativity and address what prevents them from achieving their artistic goals. One of her core recommendations is to do “artist dates” every week. However, I feel like she does not adequately define what an artist date is. … Read moreArtist Dates List
Some thoughts from my stream-of-consciousness writings, while I’m being held hostage by The Artist’s Way morning pages: I am thinking heavily about my new art piece that I am working through, my metronome piece, imagining what could be. I find so often that we are so judged on what we’ve done thus far, not on … Read moreWhen You Sit Around And Think About Art For A While, You Start To Come Up With Genius or Bullshit
One of my friends recently referred to me working on my art as a hobby. However, my art practice is never just a hobby. I have invested time into my craft and taken professional, traditional art classes. That’s not to say that people don’t invest serious effort in their hobbies- they do. But I have … Read moreMy art is not just a hobby
This story is dedicated to the two men who gave me the courage to give math a try.
My father is a man who loves history, classical literature, opera, and art. I grew up exposed to the arts and culture at home and in museum trips to New York City. Unfortunately, I feel that my dad is a bit elitist, in that he thinks that everyone else should like these things too. And … Read more“Appreciating” Art
Today, I am celebrating the act of quitting. I decided yesterday that I was going to quit the MIT Rocket Team, where I was learning about how rockets work and how to build one. I had been excited about this for months and even completed the first problem set from the liquid propulsion subteam. Unfortunately, … Read moreCelebrating Quitting
As many math people know, I’ve been working for over a year on the Online Undergraduate Resource Fair for the Advancement and Alliance of Marginalized Mathematicians (OURFA2M2). Fewer people might know that OURFA2M2 started because after my REU, I wanted to start having panels and talks about research opportunities for math undergraduate students. In the … Read moreWriting My Math Stories
In Science Communication class on Wednesday, we did an activity in conveying tone. We read a blog post, The Monotillation of Traxoline, and had to narrate the first exercise expressing one of the following emotions: Bored, Excited, Secretive, Confused, Authoritative, Compassionate, Friendly, Serious, Humorous, Angry.
This blog post is a summary and reflection of some things I’m working on this week.
What started as an idea to run a student panel to introduce early undergraduate students to research opportunities somehow turned into a full fledged conference with over 350 registrants.