Study Spirals: intro

Hi.

This is a blog for my CS capstone.

I’ll keep this short. The above image represents from start to end my 1.5 year experience as a post-baccalaureate student in OSU’s Computer Science program. Each word or phrase, a studied subject. Each class delimited by a full stop. But wait… An experience is something personally felt. And if you read through the spiraled string, you won’t find a single emotion or feeling.

Look again. How do you feel?

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Yeah, it’s a wash of words. Each word, a metonymy, a capsule of meaning with the details left out. Can you recreate detail for each one? Difficult to do. My eye latches on to some more than others. The breadth of subject is large and evolves quickly to the next. And I feel that 1.5 years was at once not fast enough and entirely too fast. My study must have only begun, and I hope it will continue.

Joshua Sears – 2023/10/02