DEFINITION:

Capstones- The culmination of our college education. They are supposed to represent everything that we have worked for during college. All of our experience and knowledge in our field should be utilized to make the best project we are capable of making.

MY INTERPRETATION: I want to make a project that I am enthusiastic about making. I have seen a lot of projects that have been done “half assed”, and I don’t want to be like that. I don’t care if people remember my project, but I do care that it meets my standard of excellence. I am the biggest self critic, and I want to make something that I am proud of having my name attached to it. In my humble opinion it is a “right of passage”. I  believe that if you don’t work hard and produce a project that is crap, then you should not receive a diploma. If that was the standard that was imposed on students it would increase the credibility of the university. The reason that so many students don’t get jobs is that they are allowed to skimp through a degree program, and are not held to a high standard. If students are allowed to produce crap, and are then hired by a company, but then are fired because of their poor performance… who does that hurt? It hurts future graduates. The reason so many college graduated don’t get degrees is that companies often don’t see the benefit in hiring another employee when so many are not worth their weight.

Make it hard.

Make it perfect.

I wish that a final project, our capstone, was something that we worked on our entire college career instead of the last two semesters. The title is self explaining, “CAPTSONE”. The stone used to cover something, oftentimes a wall. The wall needs to be built, but while the wall is being built, a capstone should be formed and crafted to fit the wall. So I think a holistic approach should be used to find a capstone and it should encompass the entire college experience.