The stress is starting to hit me. There are four weeks left but it feels like it isn’t enough time to do everything I want. I started the week off by testing the laser cutter on a paper print out of my kōrero cards. Through my test run, I discovered that I needed to add more bleed to my cards to account for any errors the laser cutter might make while cutting...

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As expected, the break flew by and it’s back to classes. I admit that it feels very intimidating knowing that we’ve passed the halfway mark of the semester. Even though I am technically progressing as planned, there is a slight feeling of paranoia that I won’t achieve what I’m hoping to by the end of the project. Honestly I’m not sure how to deal with this feeling but I suppose I will be able to reflect on it with the benefit of hindsight once I’ve finished...

Remember when I said last week that I was expecting curveballs in the next few weeks? Well, little did I know that it would arrive literally the following week. To recap, I had successfully picked an idea to pursue: a co-design toolkit. In my naivety, I thought: “Oh! Easy! The next thing I need to do is just research different kinds of tools and toolkits.” Spoiler alert, it was not easy...