School + Work = Fun?
Jul 21, 2007 Daily Blurbs, School, Work
I have been extremely busy with school work. Since my professor erased all my data, I had to redo a lot of things. Thankfully, I was able to finish all of them. Our preliminary exams is over, but I am a bit disappointed with my computer programming (COPROG) subject. I don’t know what happened to me. I used to have a quick pick up on analyzation, but right now, it seems like my brain is on overload and it is just running slow.
A part of our exam in my COPROG is flowcharting. I can understand the logic of that, but when it came to looping, my mind just couldn’t grasp it. I don’t know if it’s me, or my professor’s teaching is just not enough. Maybe he is too fast for me, or I am just really getting slow. I told my classmates that maybe, the reason behind this, is we became used to doing hands on exams, like creating digital art, and now that we are taking logical and analytical subject, our minds are just not functioning as fast as it should.
In our computer animation class using Macromedia Flash MX, we were asked to just make ripple effect on a picture. So simple, and it’s supposed to be an exam. It is a good thing, though, since I didn’t have to concentrate much on it. I was done in 15 minutes, so I was able to finish my video.
On the good side, I was able to make my very first video photo slide. No thanks to my professor, I was able to learn the basics of Adobe Premiere with the help of my classmate, Danico. I can say that he is an expert because that’s his line of business. His uncle owns a video coverage business, and he is part of it. I am quite satisfied with how my photo slide turned out. I uploaded it at motiono so I can share them with anyone who wants to see it. Here it is. Any thoughts, comments, additional tips? I used Cosy In The Rocket of Psapp for my background music, the theme for Grey’s Anatomy. Ratings are welcome, too!
Anyway, I am really excited about Lexie and I’s new project. We are designing shirts. As of now, we are still in the design phase, and we asked our classmate, Ni�o to create a logo for us. We decided to use Multiply for now. It’s called XD Media, X from LeXie and D for Dr�. We will eventually venture into other things that has to do with graphics design. For now, we just want to establish ourselves as *talented* designers. Hopefully, we will have patrons. We decided to use both textile printing and iron ons, depending on the design. We will be canvassing on shirts and other materials. We want to find really cheap but quality materials.
Fun. Ryan’s birthday was held last Tuesday at his house. From school, I traveled for 2 hours to his place. I cooked spaghetti for him, and helped prepare the food. It was a success, and he was happy. His friends were all there, and his childhood friends were cool. I’ve met them three times, and I can say that I have warmed up to them because they are friendly and accommodating. Some of Ryan’s friends from around his neighborhood are quite a snob. I told Ryan that one of them looked at me differently, in a way that you wouldn’t want to be looked at. Maybe, she has a thing for Ryan. The only ones who talked to me were the people I met a few months back. I can say that this new people he introduced me to are not so friendly. I know that I shouldn’t feel hurt by how they acted around me, but I just can’t deny that feeling. Anyway, it doesn’t matter, I don’t have to be around them.
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Tell Me, When You Do
Jul 14, 2007 School
I have been complaining and telling my professors to tell our school administration that an anti-virus must be installed on our computers. It has been a pain to reformat our flash drives every time I hook it up on my computer. A year has passed and we still don’t have an anti-virus.
As a requirement for school, I bought a 120GB external hard drive. I had no choice but to bring it to school and use it. Everything was ok when I was using it, but when I got home, it just makes my computer display freeze, and it will hang for a long time. So I disconnected it a lot of times, then my computer would work fine.
The next day, I brought it to school again. When I hooked it up, it gave off an error message, saying that, it is unreadable. My professor offered to help fix it. I let him hook it up on his laptop, thinking that he would try to heal it with his anti-virus. I went back to my seat and waited. After a few minutes, he told me I can use it again because it’s fixed. Then he said, “I formatted it.” My jaw almost dropped to the floor!
Why the hell did he format my hard drive without asking me? I felt all kinds of emotions, and I just found myself crying because of anger. He tried to explain his side, and told me that my hard drive won’t work unless it is formatted. I was trained to fix both hardware and software, so I know that I can still get my files even if the hard drive is unreadable, but it’s a tedious process, but it can be done.
All the hard work I’ve done was deleted in just a few minutes, WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE! I was so angry that I just walked out the door and decided to go home. My mom wanted me to file a formal complaint, and I would, but it will be addressed to the school administration for being negligent to the students’ needs. An anti-virus software is a must for every computer, specially when it is networked. I just don’t understand why a computer school would overlook this, or should I say, intentionally overlooked this matter.
Up to now, I still can’t accept the fact that all my files are gone. The video I was developing, the flash movie I was making, my 3D Studio Max file, my databases, everything! My professor even tried to save his face by saying, “I hope Dré doesn’t think I formatted her hard drive.. I just tried to fix it.”
Duh.
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Sa-teer-deeh!
Jul 7, 2007 Daily Blurbs, School
I am in school right now, using an hour of my 20 hours free internet usage for the semester. I am waiting for my friend, Lexie, she’s still in class until 11:30. We’ll go to Ink-finity to buy some transfer papers. Ryan’s birthday is coming up and I decided to make a shirt for him. I already have the blank t-shirts and the design, I just need the transfer paper. I hope that he’ll like the shirt because it’s personalized. I chose to do a black print on a white shirt. He likes whites, or plains, or greens. His friend already told me that he will give him a Maroon 5 CD. So that is crossed out on my list. Plus, I am broke, so I don’t want to spend as much money. Next month will be our first anniversary as boyfriend and girlfriend.. Yiheee!
Anyway, in class this morning, we were solving programming flowchart problems. After an hour of figuring out the problem, I was able to solve it. The only error I got is just minor according to my professor, because I only missed the semi-colon (;) syntax. I got a 95% along with my 2 other classmates because they got it after I did. I just hope that I’d still get the same grade come our exams, and when the real programming for the C Language starts.
My aunt is planning to reshape the upper eyelid. I told her that there are lots of clinics in the US that performs Blepharoplasty. I emailed her the details I found from the website. I hope she has all the information that she needs.
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