By the end of the week, my blog will have been up for a year! And just like last year at this time, I’m looking at returning to Germany. While I wait to hear back from CDS and try to stay patient, I’ve started doing research. Looking at prices for plane tickets, apartment furnishings, mobile [...]
Tue, Feb 23, 2010 – 19:24
I’m in my final three months at RIT. I’m prepping for German Theater and Advanced German III next quarter in addition to the second halves of Experimental New Media and Senior Team Project. In a week I will be trying to test out of Writing Seminar – I would hope I can pass the test, [...]
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 – 09:52
Here’s my quarter projects in summary: Art History final project: Produce a fake Gothic artifact and write a paper explaining what you have produced. I used RIT’s extensive Cary Collection to photograph real Gothic manuscripts and then photoshop them together. I consider it to be using the medieval philosophy of copying the masters. During my [...]
Mon, Feb 15, 2010 – 12:10
For the past half year I’ve been working with Ron Kelly at RIT/NTID on a research project about deaf/hard-of-hearing students’ low academics. It takes something like five years (on average) for one of our deaf students to graduate from the NTID two-year associate degree programs, and we lose about half our students by the time [...]
Just what I need for the end of this day! ^^ I’m sooo glad I have no classes tomorrow, and getting this helps ease my stress a bit! Dear Ellen, We have reviewed your application to the CDS Internship Program in Germany, and are pleased to accept you into the program. Congratulations! Your official program start will [...]
Winter quarter has been going better than Fall quarter, although it’s still stressful and I’m still having some trouble focusing. I’m trying to remember to eat enough, and I’m trying to stay more positive – some days it even works! Winter break really helped, I’m feeling a lot more rested and happy now. The freelance project [...]
Career Skills started the week off at 8am on Monday, but was tolerable as Therese was perky and encouraging as usual. She’s going to be having us work on our portfolios, resumes, and the rest of the materials we’ll need for marketing ourselves in the spring. She started off by having us write up a [...]
Sun, Nov 22, 2009 – 23:44
So, uh… been a while. I’m through my last fall quarter at RIT! In the past …let’s see… three weeks… what has happened? I watched BSG’s “The Plan,” and later suffered a bad case of burnout shortly before final projects were due, which made getting my projects wrapped up exciting. Luckily things pretty much worked [...]
Here at RIT we’re closing in on the end of the quarter, and therefore projects are gradually coming together. Saturday night I spent with Diana at her friends’ Halloween party, which was interesting – more of a normal college party than I usually see, though Trivial Pursuit probably does not make a usual college party [...]
Mon, Oct 26, 2009 – 12:43
My Haydn + Mozart paper was graded over the weekend – not bad by my standards and far better than I expected, considering how hard I found to write it. :) In class Dr. Ruhling went over “Idomeneo,” the opera I watched last week, and now I know a little better what to watch for [...]
