Creative Process Part II 

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("Hello world.");
}

Remember how I said I was writing an essay last Thursday? Ha, well, just finished it last night. For those of you who learn about details of my life solely through this blog (I don’t know whether any of you exist, but if you do, please feel free to contact me IRL or through facebook or something, I promise I won’t think you’re creepy!) , here’s a quick update:

  • After my three-hour sleep thing, I wasn’t able to work on my essay anymore, so I didn’t drink that red bull.
  • In section, I got an extension until Tuesday night.
  • Astronomy lab! And CS50 final project! Ouch, double all-nighters, not doing that again.
  • On Tuesday, I got way busy accidentally because of CS50fair and other stuff and failed to do the essay.
  • So I spent ALL DAY yesterday working on that darn essay.

Now, I don’t intend for this blog to become “oh my god my life is so busy, let me tell you all the details of how busy I am”. That would be uninteresting and unoriginal. But there’s some unresolved things from my last blog post, which is why I’m posting.

So, this creative process. It is, I suspect, important in the humanities. As a young scientist I’ve spent some time questioning whether the humanities are worth anything; my answer is pending but leaning towards “hell, I’m not sure anything’s really worth anything, so why not?”.

Lately I’ve been experimenting with my own creativity, however I can manage it. To be creative, let’s try to define that: “Creativity is a mental and social process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.” (Thanks Wikipedia.) I like being creative in different ways. Creative with language; creative with code; creative with images; creative with problem-solving. Maybe I’m getting better at these. If I am, it’s exciting.

Well, I don’t have much else I feel like writing about at the moment, but I found this video online and Charles thinks it’s extremely cute:



2 Responses to “ “Creative Process Part II”

  1. rachel says:
    December 10, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    The creative process, I think, is just as important to the sciences. I don’t remember which of my three bio classes it was (why/how did I do that to myself?), but we were talking about how so much of science moves forward from leaps of the imagination and from creativity, even if it’s not “orthodox” or goes against what is generally accepted by the scientific community. Our knowledge about the world doesn’t just keep steadily growing without some creativity. I think it’s somewhat unappreciated in science.

    Perhaps I’m just restating what you’re saying. If I am, oh well.

  2. World says:
    December 11, 2009 at 2:05 am

    Hello, Tom.

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