My fears

I was not sure about how ambitious should I be while conceiving my ideas in the sense that usually when people think of “thesis” their first thoughts aim to “change the world” and this almost never happen. But I have been told that at the begging you should be as much ambitious as you can and then someone will make you “ground” your ideas in order to make them reasonable and feasible.

My second concern and maybe the one that I feel more scared about is that I don’t feel technically strong. I am just scratching the surface of technologies used for screen based projects and I do not know how to jump outside of the screen to do what I really want to do: work in a physical space.

Recently I had a conversation with friend, an architect who goes to MIT and he told me that screen-based technologies are not a trampoline where you have to jump for starting to design in physical spaces. He told me that one thing is different from the other and he encouraged me to explore RFID and physical computing technologies. Although I do not think that my thesis is going to be a physical computing based project I think that I am going to need to work with sensors some way. That’s why I plan to stat my RFID workshop with Alexis soon.