A short story about catching fish at my grandparent’s summer home #creativenonfiction

The forests vibrates with the screech of crickets and cicadas. My grandpa can identify every kind of tree out here, just by their bark. There’s cherry, spruce, birch, some oak, and tons of those invasive Russian olives. …

This is the starts of my 3rd studio project. Though Carnegie Mellon has successfully fostered a rigorous work environment, it has also fostered an extremely stressful environment. All three members of my group have experienced trouble with the environment at CMU and empathize with stressed people. I empathize greatly with…

For the biographical project, Stacie thought it would be cool if we researched CMU design school alumni. I chose Michael Lemme, class of 1997, who works in the advertising field.

Here is the information, from a survey Stacie sent out to alumni, that I was initially supplied with:

Why did you decide to study design? (Feel free to write as much as you like throughout. More text will give the students more to work with.)

“Always loved to draw. Loved…

Michael Lemme is the Chief Creative Officer at Duncan Channon, a small advertising agency located in San Francisco and has been named a best Ad Agency by Adweek in 2016 and 2017. Michael Lemme started at Duncan Channon in 2004 as a Creative Director, in 2011 he was promoted to…

For my class, research methods, I have been assigned to observe people’s behaviors, document the traces they leave, and consider the effects and reasons for such behaviors.

The idea came to me; record the noise of people getting up and exiting class. Last year there must have been at least 200 students in my required psych lecture. Regardless of whether or not Kotovsky was still lecturing, when the clock hit 1:50, people would pick up their bags…

For the biographical project, Stacie thought it would be cool if we researched CMU design school alumni. I chose Michael Lemme, class of 1997, who works in the advertising field.

Here is the information, from a survey Stacie sent out to alumni, that I was initially supplied with:

Why did you decide to study design? (Feel free to write as much as you like throughout. More text will give the students more to work with.)

“Always loved to draw. Loved…

On the first day of class my professor, Stacie, set up a group of wind-up sized toys on a table in front of the room. My classmates and I rolled our chairs up close, and were asked to describe what was on display in front of us. The first student…

I don’t really know what to put here.

As I noted in class, my working process on this project was trash, straight buscará. I spent most of the assigned two weeks trying to mold my sporadic thinking into something more linear and methodical, and ended up getting very little done…

Jacob Paul

Studying graphic design @ Carnegie Mellon.

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