Group Ideas on Projects

I think that my project is shaping up to be something that could be good, if I put in the time. My idea is to find either someone in the dining hall or someone on campus that has struggled to make it to where they are. Maybe its someone who has survived the holocaust and is filling the salad bar at Holloway (she actually does work there) or maybe someone who is working three jobs just to be able to make tuition. There is someone like that, and there is someone with a good story, I just need to put in the time, be delicate and get it. I think people liked my idea, of course contingent on the basis that I find a good story. They, being students who interact daily with the staff or their peers around them, would like to know more about someone who maybe got there a little differently or what their backstory is. I think at first I was just looking to find someone with an interesting story of how they got to UNH, but as I talked to people in class about it, I started to realize there was more. What about staff? What about these people would make it interesting to the person watching my final project? My thinking has definitely changed, in that I’ve expanded where I need to come from and where these opportunites may lay. I think that people definitely had some good ideas too. Cameron had a great idea about doing a self-story following he and his father running a marathon and I thought there were good opportunites there. Also, Amanda had a very intriguing idea about a bus system in the UNH area (Dover, Portsmouth, etc.) that helped homeless people and even provided healthcare for them; great opportunites could be found in that story as well. I think I’m excited about my project- I think it will be fun to put everything together and to make a final product that I can be proud of and it be something that I find to be truly interesting.