Last CHC class ever in 10, 9, 8...

I'm excited to announce that in a few short minutes, I will enter my very last CHC class ever. It's not that CHC's are inherently bad, in fact I have generally liked mine. It's just the significance - now I too, like generation (well ok, a few classes) of Macaualy students before me, will have officially spent two full years learning about a city that I grew up in any way. Hoorah!

This being our very last one, the classmate I'm working with and myself decided to really try to make something of our final project, and I think we did a pretty good job - it was definitely the most enjoyable class project I've done in a while. This last CHC is supposed to be about the future of New York City, which in our class meant urban planning and sustainability, so my partner and I decided to examine composting in Central Park. The really nice thing about this project was that we got to go off the beaten path; our work has included lots of photography, editing and creating digital images, designing a composting unit, making neat powerpoint cartoons with Pacman look-alikes, and making lots of maps, such as this one:

'm excited to announce that in a few short minutes, I will enter my very last CHC class ever. It's not that CHC's are inherently bad, in fact I have generally liked mine. It's just the significance - now I too, like generation (well ok, a few classes) of Macaualy students before me, will have officially spent two full years learning about a city that I grew up in any way. Hoorah!

This being our very last one, the classmate I'm working with and myself decided to really try to make something of our final project, and I think we did a pretty good job - it was definitely the most enjoyable class project I've done in a while. This last CHC is supposed to be about the future of New York City, which in our class meant urban planning and sustainability, so my partner and I decided to examine composting in Central Park. The really nice thing about this project was that we got to go off the beaten path; our work has included lots of photography, editing and creating digital images, designing a composting unit, making neat powerpoint cartoons with Pacman look-alikes (standing in for aerobic microorganisms decomposing material), and making lots of maps, such as this one:

And now, very soon, we'll be presenting our research to our class, then on Sunday there's a big cross campus event at the Macaulay building for all of us sophomores to show our work. Just wait till they see my Pacman cartoon - er I mean diagram...