#ccagd

In the beginning of the semester, I drew a lot of diagrams as I was working on my thesis (excluding the above thing, I made that last week while procrastiworking). They were mainly made to help me figure out what exactly I wanted to do, and I think a part of me wanted to believe that everything could be broken down quite simply into elements and steps. I was interested in the design process, and thought I had hit gold when I was able to break it down into a formula. 

I presented this formula along with several diagrams to my teacher, and she promptly said, "Do you really think the process is so linear?" 

I was dumbfounded. In my mind, I carried this mentality that you start somewhere and then you finish somewhere else. But her question got me thinking more broadly, and I began to explore options that I would have never considered before. This semester has been fun yet really challenging, and it's quickly drawing to an end. Our class will be presenting our final work this upcoming Friday the 13th, and it's difficult to believe that not only am I almost done with my thesis, I'm almost done with college (I'm not planning on failing). I'm sprinting now towards finishing up everything that I'll need for the end of this week, and am excited because I'm really seeing and reaping the benefits of having committed to something over a period of time. There's a greater metaphor here for sure, but for now I'll just leave it at that, and these two quotes (thank you Goodreads). 

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." — C.S. Lewis