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Introduction<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Our Reflections project sought out to answer an impossible question\u2014 “Who am I?” If you’ll take the short answer, I’m Spencer Cook. If you’ll take a slightly longer answer, feel free to read my “What About Me?” page. But if you’re looking to take a more abstract answer, then carry on this way.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

The goal of this project was to sort of get us back into the swing of things at Freestyle after the summer, reflecting upon ourselves and who we’ve become. It serves as sort of a halfway mark in the process of being a student at Freestyle\u2014 something we can look back on at the end and see who we were halfway through. So we can laugh at ourselves and how dumb and pretentious we used to be. Or maybe that’s just me. Is that just me?<\/span><\/p>\n

As usual, each class had its own major project that tied into the overarching theme of the unit. In Digital Media<\/a><\/span>, our main focus was to make a mandala in Adobe Illustrator and a perspective piece in Adobe After Effects. In English<\/a><\/span>, we focused on our personal essay for college applications. In Film<\/a><\/span>, we created a film reflecting on who we are and reflecting on our strengths.<\/span><\/p>\n

This unit has been especially weird for me because my world has been shaken up quite a bit in the few months we spent working on it. Who I am when I created all these pieces is not entirely who I am now\u2014 let alone the fact that the moment I cap this sentence with a period, my perspective on the world could change dramatically in the blink of an eye.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"But it did cause me to look into myself a considerable amount. And while I often joke about how I consider myself to be somewhat of a narcissist, looking into myself is a terrifying thing to do. Not because I don’t like the answers I get\u2014 but more because those answers are coded in some language I don’t understand. And I don’t think my subconscious brain does either. But what I’ve put a very heavy focus on is the fact that nothing inside of me is written in ink. Sometimes I think I know everything. And sometimes I feel like I know nothing. Sometimes I think everything I know is nothing. And sometimes I think the nothing I know is everything. You dig?<\/span><\/p>\n

So what I’ve centered a lot of this around is my acceptance of the uncertain wave that is each day of my life\u2014 and how when I come to accept it and understand it, it gives me all the more motivation to work hard when I know I can.<\/span><\/p>\n

Projects are contained under the drop down menu at the top under “Senior Projects” and “Reflections”, sorted by class. Enjoy your journey. Try not to lose your mind too much, because it’s going to get a little bit abstract…<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to Film<\/span> section…<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
Go to Digital Media section…<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
Go to English section…<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction Our Reflections project sought out to answer an impossible question\u2014 “Who am I?” If you’ll take the short answer, I’m Spencer Cook. If you’ll take a slightly longer answer, feel free to read my “What About Me?” page. But if you’re looking to take a more abstract answer, then carry on this way. The READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~SpencerC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}