Vendors from the shantytown headed home and came back with folding tables and blankets. These guys were business people. They weren’t going to let the law stand in the way of putting food on the table for their families. (Doctorow, 216)

What will the motivation be that encourages my classmates and I to continue on our projects, even as some of our first iterations fail? In Doctorow’s book he describes the motivation of the street vendors being propelled by their families; businessmen who know that their continuation to sell is correlated with their families eating. The meaning that we have all found in our projects has begun to be the driving force in our class to continue working. My peers and I seem to think less of credits or class hours and more about workplace time and troubleshooting. For example from the first, to the second iteration, my glasses frames have improved but are still not the perfect fit for anyone’s face. I have this need to successfully print a pair of glasses that I made from the beginning to end, and like the vendors, there is nothing that is going to stop me.