Capstone Visit

I went to the capstones and interviewed Jake Richardson with a few questions.

What has this week been like for you?


This week has not really been stressful because I have been working on my capstone for so long that I had plenty of time to get the project ready for presentation.


If you could change anything in how you did your capstone, what would it be?


I wanted to have more buildings you could go in and explore, but with the time constraint and limited number of people helping me I wasn't able to do so.


How close is the final outcome to what you originally thought it would be?


The final outcome is almost exactly what I was hoping to have finished by the time I had to present.


If you had one more month to work on the project what would you do?


I would have liked to add in a couple more buildings that you would normally find in a western town like a jail or bank.


What advice do you have for me about working on my capstone?


Start on your project as early as you possibly can and don't linger because you think you have plenty of time to finish it. It will be here before you know it.








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I'm sort of going to address the first three questions of my thoughts of the class together. 


I do think this is a good class, however I already had my capstone planned out so the idea building and such didn't really pertain to me. The guests were nice to listen to because they can help give tips of what to do and what not to do from their experience. The structure is interesting but it was nice to cover most everything fairly fast rather then having it drawn out. This class I think can be a good help to lots of students but I think it needs to be taken in the sophomore or junior year not first semester senior. I think by the senior year the students should already know what they want to do for their capstone and should already be working on it.


The assignments were good to an extent, I already had a lot of it done but it did make me look into secondary mentors for my project a lot more then I thought of doing previously also think it is good to get people communicating with fellow students to help build their ideas and fix problems that one person may not notice but others can see. 


I will say a lot were not too useful to me because I already knew what I was going to do, I already knew who my mentor would be, I already had pretty much every assignment done so they weren't really useful to me.