Bruno Sica End of Semester Reflection Spring 2025

 

The most important thing I learned this semester, I believe, was staying on top of work and working ahead even with a busy schedule. I learned much about juggling many balls this semester with my project’s data collection while staying on top of my other work and homework. After a couple weeks in the semester I found myself getting into a good groove of sectioning off a block of time to work on my project work and even if I did not finished what I hoped to or I ran into a roadblock with I experienced many times while working and reading up on arcGIS Online and arcGIS Experience Builder. I could still work on it later; fresher minds are best, and a little work is better than procrastination. When things started to get much busier, especially after finals, this method worked and helped keep me on top. I gave myself more time to work during my blocks, but I realized I already gave myself a good foundation of work that I had done in the months prior, which allowed me not to be very stressed about my work, and also no stress about finals, papers, and more. The part of my work I’m most proud of is pulling up the tree map anywhere on campus sometime in the future and realizing that the map I created and am still working on this last part of the semester will be used by hundreds or thousands of people. They will be able to experience a part of the campus that many overlook or walk on by. Instead, they will find a new topic to fascinate them and might spark someone’s interest enough to take a class or attend an event hosted by the Prairie Center or by Professor Queathem, or just read a book about trees. I think the biggest challenge I faced this semester was creating creative and different ways to make a good-looking website for the trees. I’m no artist, so this took a lot of thinking and trying to find inspiration. I created documentation on how to edit and maintain the tree map on ArcGIS Online and Experience Builder, as well as tips and tricks I found while working on the project this year. My documentation is not finished yet, but I hope it will be complete very soon, next week, when my very hectic week is done.