Ahem.

So I met with Donna today regarding my nomination for Distinction in the POE, and we came up with a nice creative project for me to work on. I'm going to be designing materials for the school's Integrated Media Arts program (which is what I'd have majored in had it been available when I started here). The program's still really new and they don't have a logo or anything, and their part of the school website is really kind of blah. That's gonna be my project. I'll be doing a lot of research, talking to professors in the department, probably doing a few focus groups to see what people prefer out of their websites and what draws them in when looking at printed materials. This is going to mean a HUGE thesis paper (I say huge because I've never written more than... 12, 15 pages), creation of a poster, and presenting this all at the Liberal Arts Symposium next year.

And as I said on Facebook, I am both terrified and excited. Terrified because presentation (and to a lesser extent, paper). Excited because creativity. And the completion of a portfolio! It'll be my first really serious art-related endeavor. And while the paper will likely be larger than anything I've ever done, Donna said a good chunk of it will be about the decisions I made and why. I already do those kinds of rationales in Writing Across Media, and I'm sure that'll continue with Video Production Writing and Visual Literacy next year (same professor): There will just have to be more to them. ^^;