Solidworks: 2.5 hours (it's normally 3) learning how to: a. how to use solid works, especially the dang camera scroll, that mouse action is stupefying. b. how to make a toaster in 3d (i did it! it's even hollow and has a handle! my first ever creation) c. help Cody (my friend who I sat next to) catch up when his parts disappeared. Repeatedly. d. USE THE IRRATIONAL AND AGGRAVATINGLY COUNTERINTUITIVE (especially if your intuition=macOS) WINDOWS OS IT IS HORRIBLE. it was exhausing, sitting in a chair and paying closer attention than i ever have to anything for longer than i ever have to anything, plus craning my neck way back to see the projection of the teacher's monitor 10' high on the wall directly above me.
oh, and the teacher is a toy designer who taught solidworks at FIT, but never at pratt. he seems nice.
History of design: the teacher is awesome, made fun of his 'really bad taol' (thats Pensylvanian for towel, btw), and loves to talk about furniture. I'm so glad I finally get to learn all these important design/ers that I should have learned going into the first year of ID, but whatever, this is Pratt, I don't expect that much from them.
And I filled out my room status whatever form, and pointed out allthe holes and such that were there (including the ones i neglected to own up to on the ceiling from trying to get that stupid curtain to stay up which didn't work) so I won't get charged for them at the end of the year. Here's what I love about Derek (my RA) and that process: There's no way for them/him to know which ones i may have added during the year. Ooooops ;)
08 September 2008
New Photo ID card is the Total(ly awesome) ID card.
So I seized the opportunity of having straightened my hair this morning to (ok, fine, straightened my hair specifically in order to) get my new ID, which was worn and didn't swipe well (I was told). Since you don't get to keep your old one :( i took a picture of it to keep to remember how I looked on the first (second?) day of orientation for all time (woot). I'll let you guess which is which.
I do, indeed, <3 BK. Aw, I'm gona miss that sticker :'(
I do, indeed, <3 BK. Aw, I'm gona miss that sticker :'(
04 September 2008
Also
Forgot to mention: at the tug-o-war, the rope snapped in about 1 second from when we started pulling. It was hilarious.
Also, last night Heather, Carolina, Angeloh and I all got takeout from Castro's and ate dinner on my balcony with the very appropriate decoration of pepper lights on the floor.
Then we watched Palin's speech at the RNC, she made me physically ill.
Also, last night Heather, Carolina, Angeloh and I all got takeout from Castro's and ate dinner on my balcony with the very appropriate decoration of pepper lights on the floor.
Then we watched Palin's speech at the RNC, she made me physically ill.
First Day of Classes (part IV)
Thursdays I have design studio (large-scale product design) from 9:30-4:30 with an hour at 12:30 for lunch. John Thayer, who I had last year, is great because he got us once a week studio instead of 3 hours twice a week, and because he's a great teacher, and he's hilarious. For example, today he took a survey of the box cutters people were using, and returned one saying "I think I may have caused this one to break" (he didn't, but it looked like it).
Anyway, our first project is great- for the next 4 weeks we get to develop a chair! Yes!! It has to be cut from 4'x4' 1/2" thick ply wood, and use 4' of 1/2" steel tubing (or less than those measures) and it has to pack flat, no more than 3" high, Ikea style where you put it together yourself. I already have a couple of ideas, but I don't have a lot of homework for next week because we had to make our models to 1/4 scale, which I did from teh start (the point of the class is to make scaled models for very large products, like buses or a class-wide water park project). It should be a good semester for design, and I even like most of my classmates.
Anyway, our first project is great- for the next 4 weeks we get to develop a chair! Yes!! It has to be cut from 4'x4' 1/2" thick ply wood, and use 4' of 1/2" steel tubing (or less than those measures) and it has to pack flat, no more than 3" high, Ikea style where you put it together yourself. I already have a couple of ideas, but I don't have a lot of homework for next week because we had to make our models to 1/4 scale, which I did from teh start (the point of the class is to make scaled models for very large products, like buses or a class-wide water park project). It should be a good semester for design, and I even like most of my classmates.
03 September 2008
First Day of Classes (part III)
I'm calling these entries "first day of classes" because, even though yesterday was the official first day of classes, each day is the first day of a class (or two) until tuesday rolls around again.
This morning I had Satire, an english elective, and it seems like it's going to be a lot of reading, but a lot of fun. My teacher kind of looks like if Paula Dean from the Food Network and Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter had a love child, but she's got a sense of humor and has a surprising knowledge of pop culture of the 'young people'.
My second class today was Science & Society Seminar, which looks like it's going to be really interesting. My teacher is also funny in this class, and he kind of reminds me of my high school english teachers if they were more nerdy and science teachers. He studied in his career oceanography, geological science, astronomy, chemistry, and like a million other topics, so, like he said, our course is pretty varied. The topics are all things that relate to social or political issues today, like global warming and genetic modification. He did keep us for the whole class today looking at maps of temperature and CO2 trends in groups, but next time we're watching An Inconvenient Truth (will be my second time) and discussing it. He also assigns kind of a lot of reading, but it's all articles online so there's no pile of papers at least. And he's going to quiz us on it every class, so I have to actually read these things. They're going to be from magazines like NatGeo, Science, Wired, etc, mostly magazines my Dad would enjoy.
So there's my academic wednesdays, tomorrow I only have design from 9:30-5, which i'm looking forward to.
This morning I had Satire, an english elective, and it seems like it's going to be a lot of reading, but a lot of fun. My teacher kind of looks like if Paula Dean from the Food Network and Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter had a love child, but she's got a sense of humor and has a surprising knowledge of pop culture of the 'young people'.
My second class today was Science & Society Seminar, which looks like it's going to be really interesting. My teacher is also funny in this class, and he kind of reminds me of my high school english teachers if they were more nerdy and science teachers. He studied in his career oceanography, geological science, astronomy, chemistry, and like a million other topics, so, like he said, our course is pretty varied. The topics are all things that relate to social or political issues today, like global warming and genetic modification. He did keep us for the whole class today looking at maps of temperature and CO2 trends in groups, but next time we're watching An Inconvenient Truth (will be my second time) and discussing it. He also assigns kind of a lot of reading, but it's all articles online so there's no pile of papers at least. And he's going to quiz us on it every class, so I have to actually read these things. They're going to be from magazines like NatGeo, Science, Wired, etc, mostly magazines my Dad would enjoy.
So there's my academic wednesdays, tomorrow I only have design from 9:30-5, which i'm looking forward to.
02 September 2008
First day of classes (part II)
My second class, Production Methods, which was moved form 5 to 6, was pretty good, as far as potentially boring classes go. The teacher was changed from Tip Sempliner, who I was excited about taking a class with, to Giyhun Cho (yes he's korean) who I had for drawing last year and really liked. So it's ok. They also moved it to 6, but Cho has class in Manhattan until 5:45 or something, so he's moving it to 6:30. Which means I have class 6:30-9(ish). I doubt he'll keep us til 9:30 because he said 6:30-9:something.
Anyway, this class is basically all the stuff we wished we knew last year (unrelated to history of design, which I'm excited for also). It's all technical stuff about materials and how you mold different plastics and what holds up to 8 foot drops and chemical makeup and such. So it has the potensh to be tres boring, but I think Cho will make it interesting, and he also hinted at the fact that he's changing it from total lecture, and he's not going to give us quizzes like Sempliner apparently does. He only found out he even gave quizzes when Matthew Burger came in and gave him Sempliner's old syllabus, which had tests in it. Cho only found out he was even teaching the class like 3 or 4 days ago. Typical pratt organization and communication skills. A similar thing happened with the pain job in Willoughby, which is rather ugly, where they neglected to inform the painters what color they wanted (the painters doubtless inquired many times as to their choice, to no avail) and ended up choosing them themselves or based on one guy in the office's opinion or something. Who knows. Like I said, typical pratt.
Anyway, this class is basically all the stuff we wished we knew last year (unrelated to history of design, which I'm excited for also). It's all technical stuff about materials and how you mold different plastics and what holds up to 8 foot drops and chemical makeup and such. So it has the potensh to be tres boring, but I think Cho will make it interesting, and he also hinted at the fact that he's changing it from total lecture, and he's not going to give us quizzes like Sempliner apparently does. He only found out he even gave quizzes when Matthew Burger came in and gave him Sempliner's old syllabus, which had tests in it. Cho only found out he was even teaching the class like 3 or 4 days ago. Typical pratt organization and communication skills. A similar thing happened with the pain job in Willoughby, which is rather ugly, where they neglected to inform the painters what color they wanted (the painters doubtless inquired many times as to their choice, to no avail) and ended up choosing them themselves or based on one guy in the office's opinion or something. Who knows. Like I said, typical pratt.
First day of classes (part I)
I had my first class today, at 2:00. It was nice to have the morning off, I saw Heather before her class at 9:30 and got some errands and food shopping done with her when she got out.
My class was 3D III (thats 3d semester 3, of four required) with Karen, who I had last year. The class was pretty much what was to be expected, introductions and course description and syllabus and some first-day-back exercises. At Pratt that means cutting shapes out of chip board, not playing the name game and describing ourselves. I think this class is going to be better than last year because we're going to be developing abstract compositions into products (mostly furniture) to present to the people Karen works with at Knoll, which should be a really awesome experience.
There's also a girl in my class, Rachel, who's a transfer student from Glasgow..... take that how you will. She's very nice and Yoon and I gave her our phone numbers incase she has questions, which I know I would appreciate if I were in a new school on a continent I'd never been to before (but I'm not, and I won't be. But if I were, I'd have someone already that I would know when I got there).
My second class, which would normally start in 10 minutes (at 5) was moved from 5-8 to 6-9 pm, and the teacher changed to my drawing teacher from last year (even though it's production methods) Cho, who was really awesome and I'm glad if it had to change from the one I chose, who I've heard is really good, it changed to a teacher I know I like.
I'll probably post again after my class (which now starts at 6, which I've decided is actually good because it gives me time to clean up from 3D and eat dinner) and after my floor meeting at 9. I just saw Derek, my RA, in the hallway and he said we're playing tug-o-war with the two sides of the hallway. Should be fun, I guess.
My class was 3D III (thats 3d semester 3, of four required) with Karen, who I had last year. The class was pretty much what was to be expected, introductions and course description and syllabus and some first-day-back exercises. At Pratt that means cutting shapes out of chip board, not playing the name game and describing ourselves. I think this class is going to be better than last year because we're going to be developing abstract compositions into products (mostly furniture) to present to the people Karen works with at Knoll, which should be a really awesome experience.
There's also a girl in my class, Rachel, who's a transfer student from Glasgow..... take that how you will. She's very nice and Yoon and I gave her our phone numbers incase she has questions, which I know I would appreciate if I were in a new school on a continent I'd never been to before (but I'm not, and I won't be. But if I were, I'd have someone already that I would know when I got there).
My second class, which would normally start in 10 minutes (at 5) was moved from 5-8 to 6-9 pm, and the teacher changed to my drawing teacher from last year (even though it's production methods) Cho, who was really awesome and I'm glad if it had to change from the one I chose, who I've heard is really good, it changed to a teacher I know I like.
I'll probably post again after my class (which now starts at 6, which I've decided is actually good because it gives me time to clean up from 3D and eat dinner) and after my floor meeting at 9. I just saw Derek, my RA, in the hallway and he said we're playing tug-o-war with the two sides of the hallway. Should be fun, I guess.
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