Project Description:

      In this project, we studied adolescence. We also did this in Humanities, but we were studying the socio-psychological side of adolescence there. In Biology, we brainstormed the physical pieces of adolescence, whether it be brain development, puberty, or other biological happenings in the body of a 10-24 year old.

Personal Reflection:

       If I were to do this project again, I'd want to go more in-depth as to the biology of this subject of adolescence and how that can be represented. I think I was more subconsciously gravitating to the mental side of adolescence (which can also be biological, but I wasn't representing it like that), because I think it's really important, which is how my first infographic (describing the physical impact of mental health) came into being. I kind of wish I would have done something similar for my final. I learned that there isn't really much statistics on teen bullying, at least not since 2007 style "bullying isn't cool!" posters. I don't know this for fact, but I feel like little kids are behaving more like adolescents nowadays. I see toddlers and seven year olds walking around with rap music on their phones, and swearing in a little clique of buddies. And I just realized, I'm so not like that. I'm really, as I described when I was sick one day, a friendly simplistic 2007 personality archetype.

        My biggest challenge in this project was coming up with a final idea on the spot. For my final at least, it was hard to make a decision for what I wanted to make because it felt so hurried. It was like I couldn't get deep enough to think critically as to what I want to raise awareness about in such a short amount of time. Next time, I would have made time to think deeper, and likely make a great project that I feel reflects what I want the world to know.

        My greatest success during this project was expressing my creativity in the form of what matters to me. I immediately felt like mental health stats needed to be more widely represented, so I did it for my first infographic, and I did it in color. I was very proud of my first infographic, since I'm a big writer, it was hard to visually represent things without much text. But being also an artist, this was a stupendous time of growth for my visual communication skills. With my final, I worked really hard on those stats! It was hard to find them, and hard figure out how I want to order them in my representation. But I persevered as much as possible, and ended up with a not too shabby infographic! I tried to be as colorful as possible, which isn't hard for me, as such a colorful human, but it was still difficult. But yeah! Perseverance!