IT'S OVER
It's all over. Three complete months of hard work are over and I am not sure how I'm dealing with it. Without wasting any time, we pass from the magazine to the POL where we are supposed to talk about our learning this semester in ten minutes but how exactly do you condense approximately 131,040 minutes or 91 days of work into a ten minute presentation? I try my best to only pinpoint the most important things, yet I'm not even sure what is the most important. Its hard having so much to talk to, yet having to only focus on one topic.
Things being hard isn't something new in the IA, but I would have expected everything to be much more relaxed after having to work endlessly in order to finish the magazine. This weekend, I decided to forget everything done in the magazine and focus on my POL. That wasn't quite possible.
Even after turning the project in, I keep on opening the files to check that everything is perfect. I find myself wondering why I keep revisiting this project and I find the answer in my POL. I liked what I was doing so much, that a part of me doesn't want it to end. The smart part of me, on the other hand, is relieved, happy and extremely thankful that the project is done, and the only thing left to do is launch the magazine. The moment of excitement after reading the email that said that everything was approved and that Breakthrough would start printing that same day has been unlike any other before. I've experienced moment of extreme happiness, feeling amazing, indestructible, but nothing so far compares to the moment I just sat there, speechless, smiling the biggest grin ever, going in circles in my desk chair.
At the same time, somewhere in my body, I was feeling a little heartbroken that everything was over. That big experience had ended and even though sometimes I was self-convinced that quitting my job as the layout designer was the best solution, I not regret those feelings. This project has been the worst and best thing that has happened to me throughout my whole life.
Now I'm to pour this bitter-sweet feeling into my POL where I am only allowed to talk for ten minutes. How do I do this? Is there a step-by-step guide? How am I supposed to condense so much time, effort and feeling into a presentation that will only last ten minutes? I'm trying my best.
It's all over. Three complete months of hard work are over and I am not sure how I'm dealing with it. Without wasting any time, we pass from the magazine to the POL where we are supposed to talk about our learning this semester in ten minutes but how exactly do you condense approximately 131,040 minutes or 91 days of work into a ten minute presentation? I try my best to only pinpoint the most important things, yet I'm not even sure what is the most important. Its hard having so much to talk to, yet having to only focus on one topic.
Things being hard isn't something new in the IA, but I would have expected everything to be much more relaxed after having to work endlessly in order to finish the magazine. This weekend, I decided to forget everything done in the magazine and focus on my POL. That wasn't quite possible.
Even after turning the project in, I keep on opening the files to check that everything is perfect. I find myself wondering why I keep revisiting this project and I find the answer in my POL. I liked what I was doing so much, that a part of me doesn't want it to end. The smart part of me, on the other hand, is relieved, happy and extremely thankful that the project is done, and the only thing left to do is launch the magazine. The moment of excitement after reading the email that said that everything was approved and that Breakthrough would start printing that same day has been unlike any other before. I've experienced moment of extreme happiness, feeling amazing, indestructible, but nothing so far compares to the moment I just sat there, speechless, smiling the biggest grin ever, going in circles in my desk chair.
At the same time, somewhere in my body, I was feeling a little heartbroken that everything was over. That big experience had ended and even though sometimes I was self-convinced that quitting my job as the layout designer was the best solution, I not regret those feelings. This project has been the worst and best thing that has happened to me throughout my whole life.
Now I'm to pour this bitter-sweet feeling into my POL where I am only allowed to talk for ten minutes. How do I do this? Is there a step-by-step guide? How am I supposed to condense so much time, effort and feeling into a presentation that will only last ten minutes? I'm trying my best.