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Friday, November 21, 2003
Hard Choices
People wiser than me (namely 2nd year students Ian Hargraves and Catherine Mulbrandon) have told me that the courses I'm planning on taking in Spring, combined with my teaching Visual Interface, would lead me down the path to ruin. It's too many classes and too much work; everything would suffer.So. Now I'm faced with the hard choice of choosing which class to drop. Every one of those classes fit neatly into my master plan of taking a mixture of studio/project classes, seminar classes, and raw skills classes. In my heart of hearts, I know I need Sketching & Modeling class. Badly. So that has to stay. So it's between the other two. One (Time, Motion, and Communication) is one of the classes in the design department and some of my pals are taking it. It's also reportedly a ton of work and in a subject (kinetic typography) I probably won't use all that often once I leave CMU. The other (Reason, Passion, and Cognition) seems very useful and would help fill an essential gap in my knowledge. It, too, is supposedly a good class. Sigh. Adding to all this is the fact that I need 180 credits to graduate. Dropping one of these classes puts me at either 39 or 42 units--below the recommended 45/semester needed to graduate. I'm pretty sure it won't be hard to make up come next year, but still.
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