Week One... Done...

One down, fifteen more to go and so far... awesome!!!

In Major Studio 1 our first weekend assignment is to redesign Facebook and mock-up a prototype. Our teacher is so cool. He's totally using social networks as our subject matter. Which is so super cool! That's one of my biggest interest. I want to study and learn more about these social networks. Yay!

What's so great about this class is that we will be working on small projects that lead to a major project. They build on each other and in the end we're encourage to take our project to conferences, to exhibit it or publish it. I'm so excited for all the wicked things I'm about to learn.

In Design for this Century, I'm not to sure yet. The first class was a little odd. D+T student were mixed up with other Parsons AMT students. That 's cool and all because we are all "design" students in one way or another. We just think of design different which is nice to have another angle to look at things. I'm excited to explore "design" with a group of people who see design another way.

For Dynamic Sound & Performance I'm very excited about this and I'm sure the first class would have been epic if the teacher had showed up. The first night of classes myself and about 16 other students showed up and we waited for about an hour for the teacher. We called people, emailed the teacher, talked about taking turn and teaching the class ourselves. After a hour we gave up on the teacher and left. That really sucked! Because all the other elective class I want to take/or that fit into my schedule are full. I need this class and I need it to rock. After a few days I got an email saying they department was sorry for the lack of teacher and that that teacher will not be teaching after all. They have another guy that will step up and teach it. He taught it last semester and I'm told he was very cool. So it's looking like it'll work out. I'll keep you posted.

Creative Computing Lab aka CCLab. I think I'm falling in love. Not to sure yet, haven't really started the coding thing yet, but I'm really happy with the teacher. The first thing out of her mouth was "you need to find your happy code place." You can't force a happy code upon yourself. You have to find the right code for you. Rather that's web, processing, ardiuno or open frameworks. You must be happy. I love that because code is not my second nature. I'm not sure if I'll ever really get it enough that I can just  seat down at my computer and start coding and writing my own code. But I'm going to try, I'm going to learn.

This is going to be an amazing semester!

Revamping All the Things!

So 2012 is distant to be a years of "new starts." For one thing, I'm re-starting this blog, revamping it to more of documentary of my adventure in grad school. My new school highly encourages recording your process, and being aware of where you start with an idea and end with it. But also, getting ideas out. So I decided that this silly blog, I started so many years ago but never really used, would be my catalyst for my adventures into grad school.

Just a little post of what my day was like or what I hope to do during the day. Also, I hope to us this fun blog to keep me focus and accountable. You may not know this about me but I get troubly side-tracked. It's like when a cat sees something shiny or a squirrel can't remember if he turned off the gas stove.

With that being said here's a fun list of what I hope for my time in grad school.

• I'm not sure what the world has in store for me or my family but I do know it will be great. I really loved working in and around museums. I've worked with them for about 6 years. During and after I finished college, and it would be awesome to continue on a pass with museums. So working with museums will be a goal, what's on the other side of the finish line, something to aim for.
• I heart stop motion animation! And my advisor said I have skills that if fine tuned I'd be a good animator. She wanted me to take classes that will sharpen those skills.
• I have a very healthy addiction to the "Distributed/Social Networks." I do believe I'm on every social network you can be on. I'm sure I'm missing one or two but for the most part if I'm on the web I'm on a social network. I want to know more about this "social network" I want to learn how it is used, why it seems so important, how I can use it.
• I'm just so super excited to learn more and use it to make a positive impact in the world. 
• But most important, this is for me. This is important to me to accomplish. To see it though to the end and then go off and do something great with it.  

Not only do these fun fact apply to just me, they also go toward my family. I'm sure most of you know my husband is pursuing his doctorate at Columbia. How freakin' cool is that!? So we have big PLANS, but we've learned that PLANS don't always happen how you've PLANNED them. So we're taking our time and enjoying the experiences we've had so far with this journey, one day at a time.