The best two words to describe the beginning of my experience with this week’s SketchUp endeavor are probably extreme frustration. My task was to start creating a 3d model of the dorm Nourse, which I expected to be reasonably manageable given… Continue Reading
Group Members: Alice Welna, Pallav Kumar, and Dustin Michels. Project Description: The second fifty years of Carleton’s existence (1916-1966) is a very turbulent period. In 1919, dancing is permitted on campus for the first time and (coincidentally?) enrollment surges. In… Continue Reading
After doing extensive archival research on Carleton’s Women’s League Cabin for an archaeology class last term, I would say I’m pretty familiar with the Carleton archives. Still, the research for today’s assignment gave me somewhat of a different perspective on how the… Continue Reading
“Computers should not be black boxes but rather understood as engines for creating powerful and persuasive models of the world around us. The world around us (and inside us) is something we in the humanities have been interested in for… Continue Reading
When I was in high school, I did some work transcribing unpublished sonnets of Fernando Pessoa, a Portuguese poet who left behind a profusion of notebooks, papers, letters, and other manuscripts covered in his hard-to-read handwriting. Naturally, then, I was drawn… Continue Reading
Even though it’s been several years since I lived in my childhood home, the image of it came back to me easily as I built it on SketchUp. Going from a gray rectangle to this familiar building was very satisfying, and… Continue Reading
