My responses to the two essay-response prompt questions on the application, which got me accepted into the program.

A short story with a unique metaphor about feelings of abandonment and exclusion.

A short story about a young embroideress picturing herself in her old age reflecting on her life, with underlying themes of love, sacrifice, and mental illness.

A remade version of the classic arcade game, Breakout!, using the python graphics library. To play the game, run breakout.py (please ignore extension.py).

A data analysis program that takes in data from a text file containing reviews on male and female teachers (from ratemyprofessors.com) and displays a bar graph showing information on how many times a user-input word appears in low, medium, and high-rated reviews for each gender. To try the program, run biasbars.py.

A key-based encryption program that can encrypt and decrypt text files as well as print out the output. Arguments (in order):

• Encrypt or decrypt (input as -encrypt or -decrypt)

• Key

• File name

Ex:  >>> Python crypto.py -decrypt akey afile.txt

A program that takes in two images as arguments (one should have a blue background for best results) and replaces all blue pixels of one image with pixels from the other image, resulting in a blue-screen effect.