This Week’s Vibes: Normalize Emotions
It’s okay to feel nervous, homesick, or overwhelmed – it’s part of adjusting.
Emotions are part of the human experience. Allow yourself to feel your feelings.
Challenges are a part of life. The best way forward is through.
Journal Prompt:
Name one emotion you’ve felt today. What triggered it? How did you respond to it?
This Week’s Theme: Find Your People
You are enough – courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Finding your people matters. Connection is about belonging, support, and being real with others.
Journal Prompt:
Describe a moment when you felt truly connected to someone. What made that moment meaningful?
DI Fellow Profile – Hadi RahmatiWhen School of Visual Communication Design professor Hadi Rahmati met Computer Science assistant professor Raiful Hasan at Â鶹¹û¶³'s new faculty orientation in 2023, their conversation about their respective research interests led to an important project. They're working together to solve a big problem: how can self-driving cars communicate better with pedestrians?Based on suggestions from Hasan, Rahmati read about 20 research articles on human-machine interaction and noticed something important was missing. None of the articles applied communicati...
In the Architectural Exploration program, high school students study and build for two weeks at a summer camp at Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design. The program's design thinking curriculum is designed to inspire and prepare the next generation of emerging designers for the endless possibilities presented in the architectural field. A compilation representing their efforts during their time in this year's program is a collection of work titled "Transformations of the Primitive Hut." The students' designs are on display in...
