The School/Uni Thread

[Death Aflame]

Do you do by-the-books shit or actually design in an "artistic" (lol) way? I hate InDesign because it's incredibly difficult to do anything remotely interesting. I'd rather lay out text and columns in fucking Illustrator.

Nope. My process has been to look at existing magazines, books, etc. and take what I find interesting and recreate it and combine it in InDesign.

I am far from a graphic artist. I think the class is just more so to get us familiar with elements of design (colour, form, texture, typography) so that we can communicate somewhat effectively with actual designers when we are working with them later on.

Also, I think the industry standard for laying out publications is InDesign, which would explain why we are learning aspects of it.

 

[Pessimism]

I like InDesign Andy

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yeah it is industry standard.

 

[cookiecutter]

Had two exams for a total of five hours today but I am now officially done with winter semester. HELL YEAH~! No grades back yet but I am probably going to manage a B+/A- average which is my usual. University of Toronto grades to a C curve (ie C = average) so I am pretty happy.

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

The only grade I don't know for sure yet is my Calculus grade since he seemed to imply that he gives a letter grade that he feels is appropriate based on one's performance on the final compared to the rest of the exams. He's the chair of the math department and accordingly grades in a brutal fashion for freshman that got a heuristic treatment of math in high school. The fact that I had the second highest grade in the class at a 72% (B on his scale) illustrates this quite well. I think I may have destroyed his final well enough to have him give me the A though.

Other than that, the semester ended in high As (my school doesn't do pluses or minuses) and a suggestion to flesh out a paper and submit it to an undergrad conference. I need to make sure I don't slack over the next year or so, as I have a feeling it's about to get much more difficult.

 

[Tallerthanatree]

Finally done with the semester, should get all A's and B's.

 

[Srontgorrth]

I really wish A minuses didn't exist.

 

[unknown]

my uni doesn't do the +/- system

 

[Einherjar86]

Final schedule for this quarter:

Roland Barthes: Image and Text- all Barthes readings. This has been great so far; looking at semiological writings concerning language, objects, advertising, and photography and cinema.

Hawthorne and Melville- pretty necessary, considering my focus is twentieth century American literature. And I've never read Moby Dick, so this forces me to.

Philip K. Dick: Out of Joint- mostly Philip K. Dick readings, with some Jameson and a couple other critical texts. Really excited about this, I've been a PKD fan for a while. And we read a ton of his stuff, lots that I haven't.

I'm also auditing a class called The Regime in Modern Art: The Ends of Modernism- this looks at twentieth century visual art and lots of philosophical/theoretical texts, including Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Cavell, Clark and Fried. I won't get a grade for this class, but it's really amazing and interesting, so I decided to could only benefit to audit it (and I only "unofficialy" audit in my program, so I don't have to pay extra for it).

 

[Vimana]

I have a paper tomorrow due on a book I never read. I just got the book I'm doing the paper on today. Wish me luck.

 

[Einherjar86]

You're doing the paper on today? That sounds like a very transitory topic...

 

[unknown]

you're taking classes on Barthes and PKD?

 

[Einherjar86]

Yeah, I'm really psyched about my schedule this quarter.

By the way, you should probably never post again considering you have the most epic post count at the moment.

 

[Pessimism]

I'm currently freaking out about grad schools.

 

[Einherjar86]

About applying, or about being accepted?

 

[Der Morgenstern]

So it's official.

As of the end of April, I will have a PhD (Biochemical Eng.) should my dissertation defense scheduled in March go as planned.

 

[Pessimism]

About applying, or about being accepted?

Both.

So it's official.

As of the end of April, I will have a PhD (Biochemical Eng.) should my dissertation defense scheduled in March go as planned.

Well that's fucking awesome. How long did it take? Are you planning on teaching, or doing research?

 

[Der Morgenstern]

There has been talk about expanding the current faculty and there would be positions at this school opening up if that were the case. However, I've been mulling over teaching and have been sending out feelers to see what's out there in terms of associate professorships and there seems to be some leads at some state schools in the Northwest and also U Minn. I will be sending out applications very shortly here to some postings.

Chances remain relatively high that I will work for a private firm since I know more people out there. Who really knows? A part of me, the kind I have attempted to repress for 8 years now, since the start of my undergrad, wants to sit on a beach for the next year and smoke a metric shit tonnage of weed and pickle my liver.

 

[unknown]

Yeah, I'm really psyched about my schedule this quarter.

By the way, you should probably never post again considering you have the most epic post count at the moment.

would've been better a few days ago. oh well

 

[Zephyrus]

Both.

I know the feeling. My apps are all sent out, and now it's the constant anxiety before the letters start showing up between February and April.

Where are you applying and what for?