Week 11: Coming to a Capstone End

As the final days of my last semester in school quickly approach, it still hasn't hit me that I will be finished with my Bachelor of Arts degree in just a few short days. I do not think it truly will hit me until January is here and everyone is heading back to school but I won't have to. About a week ago, me and my fellow capstone students had our "poster session", meaning that we publicly presented our finished projects. And the result? Very good! I think that I did a very good job at presenting my project and everyone else did a fabulous job as well. I had to do an online portfolio, and I have already completed that. I had a few issues uploading my site onto the internet; it looked a little funky on the Mac at school but once I got home and looked at it, everything looked correct. I do not know if the site does not pull up correctly on a Mac, but does on a PC, or if it took a while for everything to correct itself and it looks great on any computer. Hopefully it just took a while for everything to straighten up and it looks great on the Mac computers at school too. So, the only thing I have left to do for my Senior Capstone is to finish up my physical portfolio. I turned it in last week but accidentally left out a few important details that I was supposed to put in there. I am about to finish that up now and I will be able to give it to my teacher on Thursday. As the semester quickly comes to an end, I am greatly enjoying putting the last few pieces into my puzzle known as college.

Capstone Cultural Attendance: A Local Movie

As my fifth and final cultural attendance requirement, I decided to go to a local theater and see a movie. I rarely go to the movies anymore, mainly because they have gotten so expensive but also because it is hard to find a free evening to go to the movie theater and get the whole experience. Luckily, during final exam week, which did not turn out to be as busy for me as I was expecting, I found a free night to go to the movie theater and see the movie "Tower Heist". I have been wanting to see this movie since I saw previews for it and greatly enjoyed the movie. It was a comedy that had fun, family humor in it. I think that a lot of comedies these days lean more towards adult humor, so the comedy in this movie was refreshing to see. I rent a lot of movies to watch, it is a little cheaper than going to the theater, and a lot of the comedies that I rent are not as funny as I expect them to be. I have gotten too used to comedies not being as great and humorous as I expect them to be so finding a movie that was truly funny, and one that was appropriate to watch with my whole family, was nice. Going to the theater is a cultural experience in itself; it may depend on what movie you are going to see, but usually just watching the people enter the theater, sit down, and being surprised at how loud or quiet they are is an experience that cannot be found watching a movie at home. I enjoy getting the true theater experience, loudness and all, and will always try to make the time to actually go to a theater and see a good movie.