Jane Edison - Week 8

 I wish that I was born in a different era. Specifically the romantic era, or victorian. I like to think that I would attend great balls with extravagant dresses and drink champagne until the small hours of the morning still draped with my pearls. I feel like life was so much simpler back then.

Olivia Davies - Week 8

 Fake positivity will always be worse than real sadness. As humans, it is crucial that we feel our emotions the way they are supposed to be felt. We should never dwell, but we should instead allow those negative thoughts to pass. When we suddenly become sad, is it healthy to put on a fake smile and listen to uplifting music? Or should we let ourselves cry and listen to Frank Ocean? I guess it all varies from person to person, but bottling up our emotions will never be beneficial in the long run.

Patrick Zheng - Week 8

I have two lights on my desk. One of them has a yellow-orange tint, and the other has a blue tint, so it always looks like my face looks blue and orange. Orange and blue are opposite colors on the color wheel. Orange is an extroverted color and blue is a more introverted color, so I thought an orange and blue face is sort of symbolic of how everyone has an extroverted side and an introverted side, and these two forces act in different ways in different people, creating different personalities. 

Paige Stephan - Week 8

I am working on creating a new list of names for characters that I like. I feel as if the one that I created last year is outdated, and have decided to sort it in a similar way to the last one, mostly by the character archetype I associate with them and the particular vibe I associate them with. I have definitely noticed my taste in names for characters shifting over the past year. Whereas when I created the first list of names, I tended to prefer more elegant, rare names, now, I tend to steer clear of names I consider to be "more fancy" and mostly stay within the bounds of names that are not very rare but I still consider to be pretty. I am planning to add more categories to this list and hopefully use them in a story sometime this year.

Week 8- Beatriz Ferreira

It always feels great to help others. Just by being kind, we can make people smile. It really gives us a sense of purpose in this life which most of the time is what motivates us to keep going. 

Week 10 - Erin McEwan

I can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year. This whole year has gone by too fast because of the dramatic changes everyone had to deal with. Staying home the majority of the time has literally caused time to fly.

Week 7 Journal- Cam.O

Every year it feels like winter gets pushed back into spring. It snowed the day before Halloween but has barely snowed since and as someone who likes to snowboard it gets frustrating. Hopefully, after time we will get our early winters back.