[THESIS] announcements for the week! – proposal guidelines

Hi Low Res Thesis People!

It’s been so wonderful meeting with you so far – I feel lucky to get to interface with such a brilliant group (and look forward to talking to the rest of you soon!)!

To keep us all on the same page, I’m planning on sending a weekly update. This is the first one! Please read these carefully – consider it *part of class* – it’s also on the announcement tab of the blog.

Here we go…

Your starter bibliography is due 2/14 

Detailed info on the assignments will always be included on the syllabus. 

The basic idea: create a document (can be a google doc, arena board, notion… whatever) with the initial references that make up the “world” of your work: books, prior art, articles, films. This starting point is somewhere between a bibliography and a moodboard. For this one, aim for breadth! You will narrow it down with your proposal. 

Yuqian said it well in our 1-1: these are the seeds from which your project will grow.

 

Proposal Guidelines are ready! Proposal is due 2/26 (draft due 2/21)

Big news! The proposal guidelines are ready for you! We will talk about these in our next whole class meeting (on 2/21), but you should have made a basic attempt to answer these questions before class 2/21. If you’re feeling stuck or confused – reach out to me or a resident!

 

Thesis Journal – update after each meeting! Comment on each other!

As you’ll see from the proposal guidelines – you don’t have to know exactly where you’re going… but you DO have to know what you did (by the end of this process). In that spirit, please make sure to make a short post on the thesis journal after each  meeting (1-1, group, mentor, class) with a quick reflection: what were your thoughts, where are you at, what are your next steps? This short action will help you with the part of this course which aims to help you strengthen your process. I promise!

 

Tuesday Night BONUS peer sessions – RSVP

On weeks that we don’t have class, the class zoom room is open to anyone who wants to show up. Each week, at 8pm ET, a different resident will be there. If you plan to go, please RSVP yes on the google cal invite – so if no one plans to come, the host resident can take their time back!

 

First 1-1 Meeting

If we’ve met, you can expect that I’ll be starting an email thread with you with some follow ups sometime within the week. If we haven’t yet met, please review the syllabus notes so you can come prepared. 

 

Personalized Assignments

Almost everyone I’ve met with has gotten slightly different assignments, but I have asked MOST of you to write some version of a Dream Review. This is cheesy and embarrassing but honestly REALLY worth it if you want to set yourself up to dream a big! How to do a dream review: pick a publication (one you hope one day to appear in), and pretend to be a writer for that publication. Write a short article or review about your thesis project (or body of work in general). This works best if you REALLY try to copy the tone and format… so you might want to read some reviews of creators who inspire you first!

I would LOVE for you to post all of your personalized assignments on the thesis journal. BUT – I understand if you’d rather keep some private. Just be sure to share them with me (directly, or indirectly) in our next 1-1. 

PHEW!
Okay, that was a long one. Thanks for your attention, and don’t hesitate to reach out with questions!

 

🐛, 

Sarah