Echoing the sentiment in others posts–how is tomorrow May? Part of me still feels like it’s February and we’re still in the early planning days. But when I try to list everything we’ve accomplished, wow, we’ve really come so far as a team. Mapping Cemeteries: After Life We’ve now all […]
Brianna Caszatt (she/her/hers)
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I found myself feeling overwhelmed again this week, between unpacking and leading two projects between my classes. But I sat with that feeling for a while, and then I started a plan to make these next two weeks more manageable. In our group meeting tonight I had the idea for […]
It is still feeling like we have a lot of work to do before the end of the semester, but it’s also feeling like we’re getting very close to “done.” Asma is working to code our first audio episode this weekend. We will be sure and post as soon as […]
This month has been particularly hectic in my personal life as we’ve been moving to a new apartment. We’re saying goodbye to our studio of 13 years (our first–and until very recently only–home in New York City). So this past week I’ve been feeling extra concerned I’m not delivering enough […]
This week was a big milestone for us. We agreed that April 15 was our deadline to finish our research. When we set this deadline it felt like we had all the time in the world to leisurely research our locations. Now that we’ve reached it, it doesn’t feel like […]
I finally found time this past weekend to visit my cemetery location in person. Even before the pandemic I never spent that much time downtown, but I have visited City Hall Park numerous times since moving here (13 years ago). What struck me most was how little I had paid […]
We’ve all made the most of our time this week since spring break. Nadia has made extensive updates to our site on GitHub (check us out!) and has been working hard to put our dreams into code. Our horizontal timeline is meant to place users within New York City history […]
Last week was spring break, and as much as possible, I gave myself permission to step away from the Mapping Cemeteries project. I’m not sure how much I was able to enjoy my break from the project as I spent a lot of that time overthinking all of the work […]
We’ve really gotten a lot done this week, and (as many others have commented in their blogs already) it’s really feeling real now. It was especially wonderful having so much of our class time devoted to group work this week. Site Updates We have a lot of great data already […]
