The Advice

Having someone else hear how my project is going and giving suggestions was most helpful. What I appreciated most about Wednesday's class was how I was able to both receive and offer practical suggestions regarding areas of difficulty. I feel like the hardest in getting a project started is making the transition from a broad, abstract, loosely defined idea to the actuall empirical implementation of that idea because there are always so many directions you can go in to give substance to the form provided by the project goal. For me, while it is nice to have a general outline of subtopics for how the project will be divided up, it really makes it no easier to decide in what manner those first concrete steps ought to be taken. There seem to be a million different angles from which to look at the cultural, linguistic, historical and personal significance of Fenway, and the in class workshop really helped to ease the confusion. I was able to get some really interesting suggestions.