Bull: The Abyss of Knowledge

Bull: Growth of the Octopus

At the beginning of the school year, one of the IP faculty, Matthew Philipose, brilliantly conceptualized any single project within IP as an octopus.  He emphasized that each student needs to look at her larger topic as the "head" and follow her research along individual "tentacles":  metaphors pointing toward the Literature, Science, and History components as well as other areas of interest.  

The octopus has since become an important guiding concept for this year's program.

Though the faculty have been designing octopuses to track each student's work, one pupil - Bull - has decided to create his own in order to reflect upon his project.  Below are the ongoing results of his work; this post will be regularly updated to reflect Bull's latest contributions.

Update # 2:  A close-up of Bull's work (10/​7/​14).

Update # 2:  A close-up of Bull's work (10/​7/​14).

 

Update # 3:  Bull's work, later in the day (10/​7/​14).

Update # 4:  Bull's expanding octopus (10/​20/​14).

Expanding Thought

Ned's, Misha's, and my own Independent Project (IP) endeavors have led us to a deeper understanding of mechanics, real estate, and Earth (respectively, of course). While we all came into the IP course with a clear view of what we wanted to study, we all quickly learned that our interests had roots in places we never thought of before. This posed many possible paths for our projects to take.  While this rapid expansion in thought and resources was indeed fascinating, it was equally perplexing. This confusion has obscured our once clearly defined paths and has simultaneously brought us to a new level of understanding.

~ Bull, senior at The Kildonan School