Week 5: I’ve been looking a few weeks ago at how data exists in society, At the beginning, my understanding of data was not so strong, and it was still superficial. This week, my understanding of data has been overturned, and I know how it affects our daily life and study. In our specialized courses, […]

In a previous blog I mentioned sharing some reflections on an article from the “Built Infrastructure” list about toilets in Tema, Ghana. A dog walk on day two of our Exclusion and Inequality intensive had me thinking of what happened to the community around public toilets in this article: Public things, excremental politics, and the […]

  I feel very warm for the many helpful suggestions I received from the last two blogs, and I gradually feel more relaxed to write a blog to record my thoughts and share with them even if I think some of them are very indecisive and unclear. But it is so moving to find many […]

Workshopping a project This morning’s DIS session got me buzzing…such great ideas and such rich conversation. I felt like we were about to change the world with what we had brewing. The diversity of thought within our group was key to developing each of our projects. That we perceive situations in different ways made all […]

I’ve been caught up in a lot of my assignments lately. I am really struggling with the Python coding assignments. It has been hard for me to know what’s going on past the assessments themselves. This has made my decision to dial back the quantitative data portion of my project much easier and seem much […]

  Pros and Cons List Last week (more like three days ago), I looked into the literature there currently was surrounding my topic.  While this was not a comprehensive literature review/search, I wanted to get a good idea of what information I was working with.  As I am currently deciding between two topics at the […]

Hi everyone! This week I finish my last intensive course! But I don’t have too much time to have a rest. I have several prpjects to fininsh. Since I came here, I was deeply touched by my teachers and classmates. I got a lot of inspirations from them! Last week I still have a lot […]

With more intensive days, I have been taking more courses. This week I took a course on writing speculative fiction, and as a non-native speaker, writing a pure English novel is incredibly difficult for me. At the same time, it’s been a long time since I graduated from high school since I’ve been exposed to […]

This past week I’ve spent ample time contemplating where I would like to go with my topic, and I have narrowed my scope down to looking at homelessness among the senior women who are widows. I’m sure there is a much more elegant way to describe my topic, but at this stage I am just […]

As I said last week, my first step was to analyze the current literature in each of my possible chosen topics so that I can see what information I have to work with and where there is a gap in the literature.  I have also developed what I believe to be two of my questions […]