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2 posts from October through December 2013

What I did this week (6 dec 2013)

  • I spent all of tuesday morning’s jewelry class participating in long-winded, open-ended fine art critiques—a thing I am not accustomed to and do not enjoy.
  • Went crazy trying to prepare my work to submit to the American Advertising Awards. Thankfully, Mr. Lutz left very detailed notes. Printing and organizing documents consumed most of Senior Ad.
  • For my last class of tuesday, industry professionals visited our Portfolio class to review our books. I got some good advice from Aschenbrand, which was a great, exciting thing.
  • Wednesday was long: I started out with Brand and Market Development: uneventful, long, dull. Then, I did a little homework in the library during my lunch break, followed by History of Cinema, where we watched The Hurt Locker. I did not enjoy the film, but this may be due to the fact that I had a rat’s nest of yarn on my lap which I was trying to untangle in the dark auditorium.
  • After Cinema, I headed to the jewelry lab and worked on my tea infuser project for a few hours, injuring myself with a burr in the process. At least the first aid kit had bandages this time…
  • I finished out wednesday with yet another portfolio review thing at 7pm. Illustration and photo majors were supposed to join us and mingle, but very few of them showed up, so I ended up hanging out with friends.
  • Thursday morning in jewelry, I participated in a few more critiques, then just continued to work on my final project and chatted with friends.
  • Went sheet music shopping during my lunch break, then had a short Senior Ad class.
  • Drove back down to school at 9:30pm to hear Jeremy Slagle speak to the Christian group on campus. Didn’t get home until after midnight. This week, man!
  • Friday, I wore pyjamas to school, because, at this point, why not? It was a raucous time.
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What I did this week (18 oct 2013)

  • Experienced a little bit of culture shock after being away last week. I was pretty out of it on tuesday morning. Spent most of jewelry class this week listening to presentations about new project. Tried to do some caning which ended up really poorly.
  • Upon returning to Senior Ad after lunch on tuesday, Mr. Mohr asked us to give an impromptu presentation on our 14minnikids trip. (This seemed to be in poor taste. Coming back to school is hard.)
  • Had a very dysfunctional wednesday morning in Branding. We are technically starting a new project but we aren’t finished with the first one and no one is making any good work.
  • Ate wednesday lunch alone in the library while studying for a History of Cinema midterm (for which I was woefully underprepared). Then, I went to class, took the test, and went back to the library to get some more work done.
  • Had a few hours of free time late wednesday afternoon and spent it with Andrew and Max figuring out drum parts for my band’s new album. Then, I drove straight back to school for a Portfolio Social, where the entire senior ad class squeezed into two small classrooms and reviewed each other’s portfolios. Chaos.
  • Had presentation-filled jewelry class, ate lunch alone. In Senior Ad, started working on new project and chatted with friends.
  • Skipped class on friday morning to record with my band. Well, I technically didn’t even skip because Jim Johnson ended up canceling class!
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