Ferris State University Project Library
These projects were directly related to assignments at Ferris State University, and have survived to the present. Many of these tied in to or inspired later Dozerfleet works. Projects not included here were excluded either due to other-party privacy reasons, copyright issues, or lack of interesting content.
The papers are a part of Dozerfleet Literature, and slideshows a part of Dozerfleet Studios. Sound recordings are part of Dozerfleet Records.
Due to various copyright-related issues, as well as file degradation, uploads to YouTube aren't possible for most Ferris video or audio. You can, however, check out their article archives on the Database.
After a rough final spring semester at Lansing Community College, Ferris was seen as the ideal way to get a fresh start. However, not all credits from speech classes and what-not from LCC transferred over to Ferris, leading to certain less-than-desired gen-ed credits needing to be repeated.
While no math credits were needed, English basics needed to be established. WRIT 121 didn't transfer. Two biology classes, one on anatomy and one on sexuality, were needed in order to fulfill science credits. A geography class, some literature courses, etc., were needed in order to flesh out the curriculum.
Since WRIT 121 didn't transfer over, this class was the obvious go-to first gen ed requirement. The founder of Dozerfleet took this class and did exceptionally well, often proofreading papers to a degree that even the teacher couldn't. Other students feared to have him proofread their assignments, due to the shame they'd feel at what was handed back.
Some items from class have been omitted here, due to privacy or copyright issue reasons. The DNA Homology paper discussed how unreliable popular statements were about such matters as describing ape and man DNA similarity, by showing how common the DNA homology is of any two biological entities.
Another paper compared two diners on campus, while a third discusses an act of vandalism in the laundry room of the first floor of McNerney Hall. Finally, a paper talks about the rise in popularity of the phrase "jump the shark."
 DNA Homology
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The Great Broken Glass Laundry Caper
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The Rock vs. Center Ice - The Diner Comparison Chronicles
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Defining Jumping the Shark
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Most items from this class are omitted here, for privacy and some copyright issue reasons. However, this class was about giving speeches. One slideshow has survived: "Man and Dinosaur: Always Were Together." While the Freddy vs. Jason parody Facebook vs. MySpace and the physics debating Santa: A Feasibility Study were somewhat well-received as well, these slideshows had to be omitted for various reasons.
 Man and Dinosaur
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Before TV production was secured as a major, there was a push to consider other fields - including graphic design. Marketing was tough under the instructor in charge. However, it was an essential class to the College of Business.
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Assignment 1 - Strengths, Weaknesses, and Desire
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Assignment 2 - Snakes on a Marketing Strategy
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Assignment 3A - Kia Knows How to Survive - and Thrive
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Assignment 3B - Review of a Kia Sedona Ad
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Assignment 4 - Product Development Stages
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Assignment 5 - Top Product Picks
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Product Report - Introducing the Movlune Lava Clock
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Acting class was not quite as advertised. Still, a few pieces from it have been re-released here. Those not re-released, were kept in Ivan's Vault due to other-individual privacy reasons.
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Character review of Victor from Doctor Death
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Review of Adam in The Diary of Adam and Eve
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Evaluation of the Play Workin'
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This class was required for the Humanities qualifications. An obligatory class, but sometimes fun. Most enjoyable, were film review opportunities. Boethianism was applied to explain the plot to the movie Novocaine. Likewise, the brutal pragmatism in Hollow Man 2 was served up a review.
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Key Points of Interest for 1st Day
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Thoughts on Candide
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Boethius Strikes Back - The Wheel of Fortune Has Its Way With Novocaine
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 A Philosopher's Review of Hollow Man 2
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Thoughts on the Bhagavad-Gita
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Thoughts on the Eutyphro
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Thoughts on Plato's Other 4 of 5 Dialogues
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Thoughts on Boethius
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For various reasons related to individuals' privacy, the videos from the summer of 2007 were taken down. That, and the remainder were not high quality in the first place. The Database discusses this in more detail. However, one written report from one class was able to make this list.
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Reflections on Tom Reugger
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For various reasons related to individuals' privacy, the videos from the summer of 2007 were taken down. That, and the remainder were not high quality in the first place. The Database discusses this in more detail. However, one written report from one class was able to make this list.
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Treatment for Mutt Mackley and Gambino Penguin's Somewhere I Belong
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This was another humanities required class. Not a fun class, and not much worth sharing. One of these papers was an actual assignment. The other was a compilation of jokes.
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Feminism and Divorce: No Answers
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Marriage Theory According to CATS from Zero Wing
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The rise of YouTube was a big deal in 2007. So naturally, discussions gravitated toward it.
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YouTube - The Double-Edged Sword
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The Trapezoid Kids PSA-A-Thon
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This class was abysmal. The equipment seldom worked correctly, and few good recordings ever came of it. Without access to a DAT player, the DAT tape most assignments are on can go nowhere. And without that, most of the class audio is lost to history. What has survived, the files have degraded. However, two projects' scripts have survived to the present.
One was a Zero Wing parody with the Mindoche Trapezoids. The other, an ad for a haunted house tour at the fictional Apple Pecan Lodge. Both are set in the Dromedeverse.
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All Your Shapes Are Belong to Us script
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Apple Pecan Lodge ad script
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Not much about this class worth remembering. However, the evolution of memes was a fun topic. Roffdubbing was the in-thing before DeepFakes became all the rage.
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Roffdubbing and Memetic Mutation
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Timeline for Roffdubbing
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Another dull, obligatory class.
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One Thing Prejudices Study
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Dream Analysis Paper
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Note: This class has since been renamed to FILM 253. Mostly, this class was about "What is the American Dream, really? And how has Hollywood twisted and perverted it?" After the Dream was perverted by materialists, Hollywood set to work to deconstruct the dream; by way of using the strawman it had set up and showing how the strawman was inneffectual. Essentially, anyone trying to better their lives was portrayed as an awful human being. However, only materialistic losers were allowed to be featured. Uplifting examples, like Joni Erickson-Tada were ignored. Spiritual liberty as part of the dream was ignored, in favor of sex, money, and fancy sofas.
Films featured included The Great Gadsby, American Beauty, and There Will Be Blood. To rebel against the class having such an excessively materialist-only view of the American Dream, the Dozerfleet founder chose to go another route to deconstruct the deconstructionist class: reviewing idealist dreamers, and how to do it right versus how to do it wrong.
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Paper on the Fitzgeralds
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Regarding films that are examples of how to do the American Dream all wrong, Ghost Rider was chosen as an extreme example. Faustian bartering was shown to be a terrible way to secure one's loved ones. However, the review of this film from 2007, submitted for a different class than the literature one above, quickly devolved into a film review about the movie's illogical script. A story so badly-written, acted, and directed; one would be forgiven for thinking the Devil himself wrote the movie.
TVPR 277 became the class in which 3-13 and Penguin on Drugs were introduced to the world. These both would later be re-made in 2021.
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A Review of Ghost Rider
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The fall of 2008 was a time to really crack down hard on leaning into the chosen major. However, not all the general education requirements were out of the way. A geography class was chosen, merely for the sake of getting through it and being done with it. The amount of time having to be spent on these, instead of major-focused classes, had started to become rather irritating.
This class was a chance to truly shine. "Self-Control: It's Priceless" was hailed as "over-the-top" by the teacher, but drove home its point that abstinence isn't as bad as made out to be. Part 1 of "What Condoms Don't Protect You From" drives home the consequences of assuming that pregnancy and STDs are the only dangers of sex. Much of this message would later be carried over into the message of Ciem: Inferno.
However, Ciem: Inferno and Cataclysmic Gerosha wouldn't even be a thing until 2012. In 2008, Classic Gerosha was still the primary continuity in operation. Candi was getting an adventure in The Sims 2. However, it was being adapted to a script for this class - partially.
Along with Ciem getting made and promoted, the DSHW format its webcomic was being made in was also in need of being promoted. So a piece was written toward its promotion. Revisions were being considered for 90 Has No Secant, to integrate it into Classic Gerosha continuity, along with its sequels, so a proper Meshalutian Trilogy could get made. As such, the first chapter was reworked as a script for this class.
Finally surviving this list, was an ad script for some Trapezoid Kids coffee mugs.
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Self-Control: It's Priceless
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DSHW and the Modern Storyteller
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Ciem - What Secrets Lie
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90 Has No Secant Pitch
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The Trapezoid Kids Collectible Coffee Mugs ad
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Promotion of 90 Has No Secant was not limited to only one calss. In fact, one of the most important projects of this streaming media class, was development of a website to promote the book. Other than the main video in it, a Sims 2-generated tour of the Rintel family's house, everything else was tiny enough to fit on a single floppy disk - drawing ire from classmates who didn't understand how to maximize the potential of optimizing an HTML page.
That ire grew even more, when they learned that the 90 Has No Secant website was mostly constructed from raw source code - using Notepad!
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90 Has No Secant Website Flowchart
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This class proved to be by far the most difficult class of this particular semester. Most assignments were tiny, and contained little of anything interesting. Only one paper from this class has survived to the present day.
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ATSC Summary
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The spring of 2009 was a time to be alive a little; a time to explore the town with some new friends. A time to get in some remote production experience. A time to prove those writing merits. A time for dating. A time for developing what would become the Dromedeverse, by bringing light to the craziest retailers in Dromedary Heights. A time to show off the potential in Stationery Voyagers via class assignment.
More to that, "Living Hell" picks up where "Self-Control: It's Priceless" leaves off. The Viron Counselors Network ad provided a further glimpse into the world of Classic Gerosha, going beyond the basics of the world of classic Ciem saga material.
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Wilson's Pig Market ad
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Izzy's Intimates ad
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Dynamic Stain Stoppers Carpet ad
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Diablo Juan's Puerco ad
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The Big Event
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Viron Counselors Network ad
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Cheap Charlie's Checkout ad
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Viron Counselors Network ad script
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Viron Counselors Network shot-by-shot analysis
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Living Hell
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Anime Club Interview
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Sci-Fi Journal 3, Part 5
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Sci-Fi Journal 4, Part 1
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Sci-Fi Journal 5, Part 5
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The fall would focus mostly on getting ready for senior sequence in the following spring; but also on TV practicum class. Blood Over Water production made up the lion's share of focus, therefore, for that semester.
However, there was still time for two other classes in-between its production. Tech Theater and Film History Analysis, while not much classwork survived from either, were essential in the pursuit of a film studies minor.
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Ideas for Adapting Inherit the Wind
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What's So Great About Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock
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Senior Sequence finally arrived. This was the final step before an internship - which the final step toward graduation. It was time to say goodbye to the familiar, and venture into an unknown new world of toiling away. There were three classes this semester, as only three would fit. TVPR 499 was the major one, requiring students to be busy nearly every single day. In-between sessions of its brutality, however, there were two other classes: Seminar for Video, and Instructional Design.
Classwork from 499 is too invasive for public sharing. One project from Instructional Design proved worth carrying over. Seminar class didn't produce much paperwork, and the highlight of it was making a demo reel.
 DSHW for Dummies Project Proposal
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