Friday, June 3, 2011

A Snapshot of Six Years of Education

Over a year ago I began the project of pasting all of my school documents from each school year, or semester, into single, large, Word files, and then pasting all of that text into a word cloud. Soon after starting this project I got tired of cutting and pasting, but I've finally gotten back to it and finished it up. I split up my undergrad studies into years, and my grad work into semesters. The documents I pasted into the world clouds were papers that I wrote and notes that I took.

My undergraduate major was Biblical studies (more specifically, New Testament studies) and the concentration for my Master of Theological studies was in philosophy, theology, and ethics.

Undergrad:
Freshman: 1st semester--206 pages; 2nd semester--112 pages.
(Clicking on the picture will allow you to zoom in.)

Sophomore: 1st semester--157 pages; 2nd semester--206 pages.

Junior: 1st semester--265 pages; 2nd semester--191 pages.

Senior: 1st semester--256 pages; 2nd semester--215 pages.

Grad school:
1st semester:425 pages

2nd semester: 320 pages

3rd semester: 325 pages

4th semester: 288 pages


And the culmination of six years of education is...