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So, I survived first year in Interior Design. My grades are intimidating -- twelve A+s out of twenty-one courses, and almost straight As overall. (I cannot bond with my classmates over bitch sessions about art history being too hard after acing all three courses of it.) That probably explains why I haven't written here for ages. ;-) I need to go through the stuff I made and do a lot of scanning and photographing for my portfolio...when I eventually get that done I need to make all of it into a website for myself at which point I can show it all off.
One interesting thing in life is that I got to go visit Brian out in BC for a week just after school finished. After approximately eight months straight of daily deadlines and late penalties, it was really, really nice to not have a schedule for a week, except for catching the planes. Mostly I just relaxed or wandered around with my camera, or followed Brian to places he wanted to show me. Accordingly I have a ton of pictures that I haven't actually done anything with yet except for delete the really fuzzy ones. I have realized that I am not a normal vacation photographer. Other people take pictures of people. I tend to take pictures of scenery -- plants, animals, buildings, things like that. Now that it is too late, I wish I had taken some of people. Oh well. I did not tell the parents that I went, since I didn't feel like going through the inquisition over why and how I could afford it and so on...
Aside from that, Jason's computer died but was resurrected. As far as I can tell, it wanted to be dusted. Mine, however, has died, been resurrected, and died again. I'm not sure what I'll do about it yet, since I can manage with Jason's for now, and if I can find a VGA cable, I do have a spare. Speaking of which, anyone got a spare VGA cable, the kind that connects the screen to the computer, and usually has blue ends? Near summer's end, however, I get to buy a laptop. Finally. I really do need one, partly because it's mandatory year after next, but also because I am forever having trouble getting the time and resources I need in the school computer labs, and it is not efficient to risk 15% off an assignment because you cannot get a computer to print it from that has the software and fonts. On top of that, my poor machine is approximately six years old, and it shows. It shows very badly indeed when I need to run AutoCAD and Photoshop at the same time, which is fairly often. So I think I have more than enough reason to buy a shiny new thing, and I would very much like a Macbook Pro -- I am sick of Microsoft and don't want to deal with Windows more than necessary for AutoCAD. There is a happy education discount, and I would really like, after nearly missing the deadline on my final project in my most important class because of my computer died 3 hours before it was due and the school computers don't have InDesign CS2 and I had to have my prof pull strings to do disaster recovery, to have a computer that just works. This is a very important thing for me now. For the same sorts of reasons, I will also be buying a scanner. I can no longer afford not to own one.
Oh -- and I need to do my taxes and apply for next year's student loans and find a summer job. If anyone can help with the finding a summer job, I'd be very grateful. Gratitude could include homemade cookies, computer help, website help, etc. Not only do I need the money, I need to be somewhere air-conditioned during the day when the weather is 40C sort of horrible.
And finally, I joined two varieties of Borg -- LinkedIn and Facebook. I am a little confused by how to connect to people on LinkedIn. Facebook is considerably better at making sure you find at least some people you already know. I'm not sure how much attention I'm going to pay to them, but I do at least have a (rather empty) profile now.
One interesting thing in life is that I got to go visit Brian out in BC for a week just after school finished. After approximately eight months straight of daily deadlines and late penalties, it was really, really nice to not have a schedule for a week, except for catching the planes. Mostly I just relaxed or wandered around with my camera, or followed Brian to places he wanted to show me. Accordingly I have a ton of pictures that I haven't actually done anything with yet except for delete the really fuzzy ones. I have realized that I am not a normal vacation photographer. Other people take pictures of people. I tend to take pictures of scenery -- plants, animals, buildings, things like that. Now that it is too late, I wish I had taken some of people. Oh well. I did not tell the parents that I went, since I didn't feel like going through the inquisition over why and how I could afford it and so on...
Aside from that, Jason's computer died but was resurrected. As far as I can tell, it wanted to be dusted. Mine, however, has died, been resurrected, and died again. I'm not sure what I'll do about it yet, since I can manage with Jason's for now, and if I can find a VGA cable, I do have a spare. Speaking of which, anyone got a spare VGA cable, the kind that connects the screen to the computer, and usually has blue ends? Near summer's end, however, I get to buy a laptop. Finally. I really do need one, partly because it's mandatory year after next, but also because I am forever having trouble getting the time and resources I need in the school computer labs, and it is not efficient to risk 15% off an assignment because you cannot get a computer to print it from that has the software and fonts. On top of that, my poor machine is approximately six years old, and it shows. It shows very badly indeed when I need to run AutoCAD and Photoshop at the same time, which is fairly often. So I think I have more than enough reason to buy a shiny new thing, and I would very much like a Macbook Pro -- I am sick of Microsoft and don't want to deal with Windows more than necessary for AutoCAD. There is a happy education discount, and I would really like, after nearly missing the deadline on my final project in my most important class because of my computer died 3 hours before it was due and the school computers don't have InDesign CS2 and I had to have my prof pull strings to do disaster recovery, to have a computer that just works. This is a very important thing for me now. For the same sorts of reasons, I will also be buying a scanner. I can no longer afford not to own one.
Oh -- and I need to do my taxes and apply for next year's student loans and find a summer job. If anyone can help with the finding a summer job, I'd be very grateful. Gratitude could include homemade cookies, computer help, website help, etc. Not only do I need the money, I need to be somewhere air-conditioned during the day when the weather is 40C sort of horrible.
And finally, I joined two varieties of Borg -- LinkedIn and Facebook. I am a little confused by how to connect to people on LinkedIn. Facebook is considerably better at making sure you find at least some people you already know. I'm not sure how much attention I'm going to pay to them, but I do at least have a (rather empty) profile now.
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Date: 2008-06-11 04:40 am (UTC)From:Congratulations on the marks -- seems like this is a good program for you.
As for the Macbook, well, you too will be assimilated.
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Date: 2008-06-12 06:10 pm (UTC)From:You know what makes the marks even more intimidating? The two B-level marks are effectively accidents. In first-term CAD I seem to have read the numbers on the exam drawing wrong in the badly-lit classroom, and the teacher refused to help although he knew the mark wasn't representative of my ability. The bad mark in Interior Design II is mostly because I was late with several assignments, including an important one...
I will be strongly predisposed to like whatever new computer I get, since it will probably Not Suck. All the nifty Mac software I hear about has rather drawn me to it too. I do expect that the changes in keyboard muscle-memory stuff will drive me batty until I acclimate or fix them, though! And, if all else fails, I can just reinstall the devil I know.
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Date: 2008-06-11 12:53 pm (UTC)From:Sadly, no luck on the job front from me as yet, I fear.
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Date: 2008-06-12 06:01 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2008-06-11 10:42 pm (UTC)From:Cheers and hugs,
David
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Date: 2008-06-12 06:02 pm (UTC)From: