Welcome to my Senior Project Portfolio!
Let me start by saying thank you for being a part of this uniquely ‘New Tech’ experience! I hope that you have as much fun learning about our projects as we had doing them!
For my Senior Project, I chose to (attempt to) learn to cook. I picked cooking for a couple of reasons. One reason, is that I simply really, really enjoy food: eating it, looking at it, smelling it, pretty much anything to do with food is something I want to be a part of. Another driving force that pushed me towards the kitchen, is the daunting fact that, in less than a year, I will be living on my own,with NO ONE to cook for me. Now I know what you may be thinking, “Uhh restaurants and take out joints LITERALLY cook for you? Like they solve the exact problem you are citing!” And you’re right, they will cook for you. The only problem is …show more content…
While I learned a lot about cooking (for example, the fact that it IS a bad idea to eat a full bowl of raw cookie dough), I also learned a lot about myself during this project. I learned that I have a terrible case of ‘butter-fingers’ (in the case of this project, sometimes literally) after dropping my phone 7 or 8 times while trying to photograph my process. I learned that I do not care for working with raw meat, and would much rather bake instead. I learned that food tastes so much better when you had to actually work for it. But arguably the most important thing that I learned is just how beneficial cooking can be for someone who is as stressed and anxious as I am. I found that the act of cooking in itself was extremely efficient for relieving my anxiety and lowering my stress, and the food I got at the end didn’t hurt my mood
Let me start by saying thank you for being a part of this uniquely ‘New Tech’ experience! I hope that you have as much fun learning about our projects as we had doing them!
For my Senior Project, I chose to (attempt to) learn to cook. I picked cooking for a couple of reasons. One reason, is that I simply really, really enjoy food: eating it, looking at it, smelling it, pretty much anything to do with food is something I want to be a part of. Another driving force that pushed me towards the kitchen, is the daunting fact that, in less than a year, I will be living on my own,with NO ONE to cook for me. Now I know what you may be thinking, “Uhh restaurants and take out joints LITERALLY cook for you? Like they solve the exact problem you are citing!” And you’re right, they will cook for you. The only problem is …show more content…
While I learned a lot about cooking (for example, the fact that it IS a bad idea to eat a full bowl of raw cookie dough), I also learned a lot about myself during this project. I learned that I have a terrible case of ‘butter-fingers’ (in the case of this project, sometimes literally) after dropping my phone 7 or 8 times while trying to photograph my process. I learned that I do not care for working with raw meat, and would much rather bake instead. I learned that food tastes so much better when you had to actually work for it. But arguably the most important thing that I learned is just how beneficial cooking can be for someone who is as stressed and anxious as I am. I found that the act of cooking in itself was extremely efficient for relieving my anxiety and lowering my stress, and the food I got at the end didn’t hurt my mood