final(?) thoughts

oh man...it's been an exhausting few days! finally pulling everything together and setting everything up around campus. but it's been really cool to see how people have interacted with the installations, especially within the last two days, and i'm looking forward to seeing how people continue to add on. It was so different setting up my installations yesterday morning all by myself. i really enjoyed going with amy and jeannie to set up their projects. it was fun because we were all accomplishing something	*
together and we could help each other with placement. but setting up my own alone made the installation in pray-harrold especially difficult (the banner was long and hard to tape to the wavy green wall). i was happy to see that a couple people (so far, although more might have been added since i last checked) had interacted with the installment in the home zone. but i feel there could have been more responses had i not put the poster up in the basement hallway of downing. i can always move it to the main	*
floor where there's much more foot traffic. i consider the “words of wisdom” installment in mckenny a great success! the letters were on the middle table in the sitting area overnight last night, and i was happy to see that they hadn’t been removed. there are some really neat words of wisdom that people left for their fellow students and themselves: “ships in a harbor are safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” “you have to start small to make it BIG!” “a person can only call you what you are...” “get your cake and eat it too.” “don’t eat the yellow snow!” “above all else guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” the haiku book that i set up in the student	*
center was also responded to with enthusiasm! a friend of mine was eager to add some of his poetry (i think he wrote 4 or 5 haikus). it’s interesting to see the mood of the haikus span from silliness to more thought-provoking. here are some entries: in america babies are born all the time that is really neat nothing beats the bliss the infinite perfection	*
of music at night scott came to starbucks asked me to write a haiku so look, here it is in love don’tcha know won’t pick boogers or fart loud gotta be on my swag love was nothing more than a well-dressed dream in blue dancing through the door	*
don’t leave your purse there what if somebody stole it? then you would be sad this is a pit stop the journey so much longer don’t stop, not there yet last night i got to talk to two girls that had written a haiku in the book and were really curious about it. that was so rewarding!	*
i plan on keeping the book and the “W. O. W.” letters visible for people to interact with, probably both in the student center for the rest of the week. this entire project turned out so differently for me (and i’m sure for each one of us) during the actual execution...it was relieving and exciting when everything really fell into	*
place with the installments. i would have liked to spend more time working with everyone else in the group drumming up ideas and research and helping with the construction and placement of installments, but we all did a great job with our own topics, i think. it was definitely a unique experience working with this group on such an engaging project. i liked the collaborative nature of our work and greatly benefited from the contribution of everyone’s ideas to the project. i had a lot of fun doing it!	*