For my capstone, I worked on and created a “Freshman’s Guide to SLA”. To do this, I collected input from other seniors about information they wanted to share with the freshman. After that, I started drafting the written part of the book. I had to figure out how to make the information as helpful as possible without making it too overwhelming and content heavy. Then I finalized my writing and transferred it over to the Procreate app to format it as a book. In Procreate, I illustrated the cover page and added drawings throughout the guide to make it more fun and engaging. I learned a lot throughout the creation process of this capstone. I had to really put myself back into the shoes of a freshman, and consider what would have been helpful for me to know as a freshman. My overall goal of this project was to help new SLA students make the most of their freshman year, and I believe I was able to achieve that.

Bibliography

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F0JIoe3bZG6RIZHkUVVdrFTOhXLTIn66hJ9lqYz5VrE/edit?usp=sharing

Over the course of the year I started, maintained, and developed a small school library for SLA with a grant from the Laura Bush Foundation. Our small library aims to give our students a space for leisure and serendipitous discovery. Pursuing that goal led me to numerous strategies with varied sub-goals, which slowly built together into an unachievable ideal of what I wanted to leave behind after my time in SLA. However, the continued achievement of that goal isn’t all up to me, it’s a task for all future members of the SLA community to uphold, maintaining cleanliness and organization is crucial, and encouraging that without being in the building has been one of my biggest goals. Read all about the simultaneously slow and panicked rapid struggle that established SLA’s library, and when you’re done, stop in, look at the books, and enjoy the bean bag chairs— and remember to throw away your trash and put your books back where they belong. :)

Bibliography

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15C1srdgnyDYzfr7hlJ5QTlWx-3DW0-gpfhL1skcIOWs/edit?usp=sharing

If anyone decides to continue working on the library in the future, here are my basic thoughts and plans. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pbZ2xOVqKuJXPFMHZDHuOQC0Q8LsYQyElESTZl3tuIU/edit?usp=sharing