This week we were tasked with reviewing the thesis proposals of two other people in the class.

My “Two for Review” were Fiona’s concept for interactive fiction and Thomas’ Banyan Speak, a system to allow comments to traverse between applications.  At this stage, being in a class with such variety of ideas doesn’t fox me, but it does make me sit up for a second or two and wonder how this will affect our concept development?  ITP is such a truly interdisciplinary environment.  I’ve written a thesis before – using a program that models the dehydration of rocks.  It was such a great experience working in a lab.  Seems years ago. I was in a Chemistry department, with physical chemists.  We were all chemists or programmers though, all doing the same sort of work.

This thesis is different, and I wonder if a large part of this will be due to just how our ideas will be affected by each other?  Fascinates me.