It's a theatre tradition to present flowers to the people you know in the cast of a show. Well, the show i saw was called Secretaries and my friend played a secretary so i thought it would be appropriate to make some flowers out of office supplies. I made a rose-like bud out of post-it notes for one flower and i used colorful paperclips as petals on another. All the flowers were mounted to pencils and arranged in a mug.
At home point during this first year of grad school my focus shifted from hoping to to well on an assignment to hoping that everyone else does worse. Now i'm just shooting to stay above the median.