I arrived safely in Atlanta last Friday and have been building Ikea furniture ever since. I have a somewhat habitable room right now and after a hectic day of trying to piece together my course schedule at the last minute I seem to have found a nice variety of classes. Things might change but right now I’m signed up for LCC3705 - Principles of Information Design, LCC3710 – Principles of Interaction Design, ECON2106 – Microeconomics, CS3451 – Computer Graphics and some other class.
I’ve slowly come to the point where I’ve gotten rid of most of the annoying core requirements and can really start getting into my Computational Media major, which is a blessing. Those two LCC classes are pretty damn cool. They are both project-oriented studio classes and are rather small at under 20 students each. The interaction design course deals with lots of usability, HCI and uses tools like Flash and Photoshop while the information design course is heavy on information architecture and site organization while utilizing PHP, MySQL, XML and some AJAX – both much more interesting than something like Calculus III. I also applied to be a mentor for the new Computational Media freshmen, so we’ll see how that goes.
My schedule is a little odd with my first class on MWF starting at 1pm and TR pretty much booked from 9am to 5pm. On the upshot, I get to come home to my own room after classes! However, we did have a little problem with bugs and had the house fumigated today (although Chris doesn’t think that helped much).
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Thank God you got that place fumigated, those bugs are nasty. I just moved into Towson today, and I have to say dorms absolutely suck. I can’t wait until I can live off campus. But it shouldn’t be too bad, its college right?
When I was a freshmen they were saying that Georgia Tech was rated #14 for “dorms most like dungeons.”
I think those types of centipedes are pretty harmless….much better than ants or ROACHES. It’s just a little creepy seeing them crawl across your wall.
That’s a really nice and neat looking room. Bugs wise… they should disappear in winter, would they not? if you mainly have problems with them over summer/warmer periods, fumigate them once/twice over the year, perhaps over the holidays when no one is around.
that said though, i hope the process isn’t too costly.
Hey Paul, that’s not fair… University at Buffalo had the distinction of having dungeon-like dorm rooms first! Seriously, you get lost in there. Oh, nice Ikea room btw :P
Remember in Fight club, he was living the Ikea lifestyle… so look if you meet an random guys selling soap, beware. Although if one of your lecturers mentions SOAP on a course, that’s cool.
I wanted to go to an apartment but wasn’t able to. I’m in the dorms for my senior year, but my dorm is actually really nice. I have a good roommate and my fianceé is right next door too. I think I’ll get through the year.
Welcome back Paul. You’re almost there man. I’ll provide my “typical” offer to you to be a part of the Typical Mac User Podcast if you get some time during this term. I’m sure we would all love to hear how a Mac and Blogging guru like you manages the time to do both and be a Junior in College as well.
Take care
Victor
http://www.typicalmacuser.com
How excited are you about Micro? God, I loved micro. It was the course that caused me to add another major.