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Friday, November 14, 2003

Leave Those Kids Alone
Amusingly, my assistantship for spring semester is teaching a class: visual interface design, the undergraduate version of the class I'm in now, interface and interaction design. Should be very interesting.

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Thursday, October 2, 2003

TAed

I've picked up another assistantship, TAing an introductory web design class taught by new faculty member Stacie Rohrbach. I'll basically be helping students with code projects and working through Dreamwaver issues.

Friday, August 22, 2003

Orientation

We had orientation yesterday, where the design faculty welcomed us, the ninth class to have gone through the Interaction Design program and our sister program, Communication Planning and Information Design. There are 14 of us first-year grads: six ID and eight CPID. Ten women, four men.

Orientation was led mainly by Dan Boyarski, head of the Design school, there was a lot of talk about the intensity of CMU and to prepare ourselves for that. He also implored us not to be too hard on ourselves while going through the program: there will be things we're good at and things we'll have to work harder at. And one inspirational message: writing and design together can change the world.

We also got to pick our seat in the graduate design studio and were assigned our assistantships. I got the unusual (for me) assistantship of tech support for the Smillie Lab, the new digital imaging lab. I'm also going to be doing a semi-TAship for Bob Swinehart's Corporate Identity class.

Refreshments were served.

I also managed to crash the HCI program's orientation party last night. Fun fun fun!