An exploration and study of Sashiko Stitching, a type of reinforcement embroidery from Japan.

Arwen Sadler's AHS capstone project. An exploration of writer's block through multi-media, consisting of post-its and other partially finished writing projects.

The final finished short form writing pieces for my AHS capstone. There is a sci-fi short story, a fantasy short story, and a poetry zine (in pictures and text only form). My goal was to explore a wide variety of short form writing. There is also a 'story builder' guide that was used for an interactive activity during the exhibit.

More about my initial goals and form: I aimed to write multiple pieces of short form writing (fiction stories & poetry), specifically to explore genre blending and unusual forms of writing. I’m inspired by writers who have transitioned narrators in the middle of paragraphs, have poetic descriptions with cadence in the middle of science fiction, and other unique forms. I want to take time to explore having a personal writing style/trademark while feeling more comfortable in the writing basics.

I produced a portfolio of various stories and poems I wrote during the semester. I also listed the works I was inspired by at the end of each piece. I was successful in my goal to create 8 short form writing pieces for the semester, as I wrote 2 short stories and 9 poems. This was not for my final submission, but I additionally wrote at least something every day in a physical notebook - poetry, thoughts on what I’m reading, or story ideas. This inspired my writing and served as a free brainstorming space. Since I was more comfortable with poems, I wanted to share these in a coherent theme and I compiled them into a zine. This was combined with matching pictures drawn by another student (Dylan Merzenich). The short stories I wanted to be more exploratory and aimed to get more breadth in topic and style. A stretch goal was to make a guide for how to create short stories or generate ideas, which I ended up completing as an interactive activity for exhibit.

Human Interactive Robotics Lab's application for SAG funding in the Spring 2022 Semester

Art + The Internet is the culminating experience of my visual art AHS Capstone. It’s a selection of art works that follow three themes about the experience of living on the Internet: early hopes and Internet Dreams, constructing and performing our Digital Bodies, and contemporary takes on Speculative Futures for our online lives. Together these works explore the Internet’s rapid and pervasive rise as a dominant force in many of our lives and how it inextricably shapes the way we view ourselves and each other. Instead of pulling web-hosted pieces that we would traditionally think of as “Internet art,” I was more interested in curating largely analog art works that address the Internet thematically, rather than interact with it directly. My hope is that this prompts questions about the ways the Internet’s influence bleeds into our physical lives - the World Wide Web is no longer something we can choose to log on or off of, there is no way to fully ‘unplug’ from cyberspace. We are all machine-augmented beings in some form, and the art in this exhibit showcases our cyborg transformation over the last several decades.

In this paper, we consider what we identify as crisis surveillance capitalism in higher education, drawing on the work of Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff. We define crisis surveillance capitalism as the intersection of unregulated and ubiquitous data collection with the continued marginalization of vulnerable racial and social groups. Through this lens, we examine the twinned crisis narratives of student success and academic integrity and consider how the COVID-19 pandemic further enabled so-called solutions that collect massive amounts of student data with impunity. We suggest a framework of refusal to crisis surveillance capitalism coming from the work of Keller Easterling and Baharak Yousefi, identifying ways to resist and build power in a context where the cause of harm is all around and intentionally hidden.

A final report and reflection on the Human Interactive Robotics Lab's research progress during the Fall 2021 term.

Required Personal Reflection for BIll Fan's fall 2021 SAG grant

Required final report on soft robot modelling research for Bill Fan's 2021 Fall SAG grant documentation

A booklet highlighting the Olin Conductorless Orchestra for its December 17, 2021 performance at the Olin EXPO. Features short biographies of student musicians and the day's program, as well as several images.

Transcript of a speech given at an Olin Partners reception (likely occurring in August 2001) by a representative of the town of Needham.

The transcript of Lawrence W. Milas' speech given at the Olin Partner's Reception, which happened on August 27, 2001.

A pamphlet distributed during the "Olin Rising" Olin College opening day ceremony on May 3rd, 2003. The pamphlet covers F.W. Olin's life, the Olin Foundation, and the college founders.

A series of paper handouts given to attendees of the "Olin Rising" opening day ceremony on May 3rd, 2003. Most are geared towards prospective students and their parents.

A lengthy program covering the activity schedule for the May 3rd, 2003 inauguration of the F.W. Olin College of Engineering. The document contains a list of speakers, speaking scripts, and whole schedule for the event.

A booklet containing the score for the F.W. Olin Overture, arranged for brass quintet, and the program notes for its premier at Olin College in May 2003.

Visual description of working at Bikes Not Bombs.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project featuring a book which alternates pages containing abstract shadowy shapes and reflective sheets that mirror said shapes.

Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project consisting of a book whose pages are all bound to each other and folded in such a way that the book opens in a fashion similar to the motion of an accordion instrument when performed.

A scrapbook covering the history of Olin College, starting from 1997 and ending at 2005. The scrapbook contains photographs of student activities, faculty, and other aspects of Olin College life. There second half of the scrapbook contains several pages where Olin members contributed to a discussion about various topics by all writing on the page, similar to a yearbook.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) book filled with photographs of baking cups artfully arranged in unusual environments for comedic effect.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project consisting of a book with photographs of campus life and text written by students describing their life a Olin College.