Finals

Ive had two finals so far, and am about to turn in my Art Final tomorrow. I also have my LCT final tomorrow.

The Mass Comm final was so easy. It was two essay questions, and of course I did really well! (it's writing, duh! :P)

The math final I am hoping to God I did well. I knew a majority of the questions, but some i was not sure on, and others I had no clue. I had an 81% going in. I really really don't want a C in college. It would make me so angry with myself. The problem I always seem to have with math is that all the word problems look the same. ARGH!!! :(:(

My art final was to create a logo for a high speed internet company. It's actually a real company called Ridge-Runner Internet Services. It's for rural or places out of major cities. They don't commercialize, but gain customers only from word of mouth! Our teacher has this Internet Service, and used this as an idea for our final. We have to create a logo, and then incorporate it into an object, such as a bill board of coffee mug.

He also told us we could do our logo on the computer if we wanted!!!! I was so excited! Immediately when he told us what we were doing an Idea popped into my head. I don't know how it happens! He told us we should have more than one design, but my first designs have always been the best, and the others only went downhill from there.

So, whether you want to see it or not, I present it to you! I guess I have to state that I don't own the Ridge-Runner company, nor do I own the name. But I own everything else! Muahaha!

What I did was I imagined a blacked-out image of a man running, with a barrage of colored squares behind him. As usual, the color red would be the dominant color. The idea of the design did change to make it look a lot better, but the idea of squares with a man running stayed the same. Whatever Muse gave me this I am definitely grateful!

Here it is, the Logo, and then the Bill Board:





I must say its very puzzling that some of the colors change with some of the pictures! I have to print it out to, so they will all look the same in the end.

Later on, the symbolism of the bill board hit me! The slogan that I made up, "Can YOU keep up?" fits perfectly because the color blocks on the logo can than turn into computer files or something of the sort. Then, the files are racing, or beating the man running a race! So in effect, it is saying "our internet is so fast, you won't be able to do stuff fast enough to keep up!"


One more note. I think the name is rather bland. I mean, first of all it reminds me of Road-Runner. And second of all I thing of a Fridge. Fridge-Ridge, get it? Whatever, as long as they have business!

Quickie

1. Mandi!
2.Robby's Bday
3. Art
4. Congo

wow. So much has gone on that I have forgotten what days it happened on. So here goes.

1. Mandi!

I had a facebook chat with Mandi and she is amazing!!! She's all grown up too! its scary and fun at the same time knowing that this little girl I knew now knows about the same in this world that I do. That her innocence has been crushed by time (this is not figurative people, no hidden context.) and she can now be a better cousin, one who we don't have to shelter topics/words/etc from. Yay Mandi! I could even feel her personality coming out of the screen.

2.Robby's Bday

It was Robby's birthday. I bought him some Butterfingers candy bars since those are his favorite. We played a board game in the lounge, and his friend Feather (Feather, David Feather) bought him a whole cake. It was so damn good! Im actually getting some out of the fridge right now.

3. Art.

Wow. I got back this project (picture below) and it said 100% on it. When he gave me it he said he's never given out a 100% before and that I should be very proud of my work. Take that! ha! :D:D:D:D:D When scanning the picture in, I accidentally chopped part of the right side off. Just know there should be more greenvto the right and that paper object should be farther away from the border.
I don't know if you remember what it is, but its one of those "Fortune Teller" Oragami contraptions. Like this:
http://www.tappi.org/paperu/images/Seven.jpg




Also, we've been doing a lot of projects with painting....and so I've been using the paint a lot. What is the result? my favorite shirt has purple paint on it, my favorite jeans have red paint on them, my macbook has a slight tint of grass colored green, and the bathroom floor has blood red paint splattered on the floor. I bet some people think someone had a fight in there. Wonderful :)

4. Congo.

An interesting thing that happened today was I had breakfast with the foreign exchange student from the Congo (I usually have breakfast with Robby, but he's at a Track meet). Yes, as in Africa. He is really cool to talk to, but its frustrating sometimes since he just learned the language. I was talking about how my brother is also in college. He asked how old my brother is and I told him that we were twins and that he was in Boston. I don't think he knew what Boston was, because his eyes got all big and he said "ohhh that answers a lot of questions."

"Hmm? What do you mean?"

"One day I said hello to you and you recognized me. The next day I also said Hi and you didn't know who I was. I think it was your twin"

"No,no, my twin doesn't go here. He goes to another college."

"Oh. Then who do you eat breakfast with every morning that looks like you?"

"That's Robby, my roommate."

"You two look exactly like eachother."

Hahaha gotta love it. I have to agree with him I guess. We kind of have the same hair and the same build...And I guess we all look the same to him anyways, as they kind of do to us.

Anyways, off to my advisor meeting because I get to choose my classes soon! I have so much to catch up with on here, so just wait!

More time! Vacation time!

So today is october break. But let's not get ahead of ourselves!

We have to travel back to last night. Last night, after swim practice, (A really good one! I beat john fox in a set of 5X50 free sprints!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I seriously doubt theyre as fast as they say, either that or they're really out of shape! He still is better at breaststroke) I invited Jarod to come watch a movie with my friends and I that we had planned.

Of course no such plans existed, so I ran back and called as many people as I could together: Regina and Lauren. Leave it up to everyone to leave their homework to the last minute. We got Pirates of the Caribbean (POTC); because who doesn't love that movie? Jarod showed up. I was nervous. We went into the lounge and set up the movie. I sat down on the couch, but he sat down in an arm chair!

We started watching the movie but nothing substantial happened. Then Lauren said she had to go take a shower. THEN regina said she had to go finish her homework. I promise you this was not planned. Then we started talking! Yay! I finally got something more than a sentence out of him. muaha.

He told me he had never been farther from Minnesota than Chicago. And here I was complaining that I'd never been out of the Country! He said he would love to come down to San Diego with me. Of course I invited him (and everyone of my friends, sorry mom but someone will eventually take me up on my offers!) After many more topics and people came by to see what we were watching, the movie ended and I walked him to the door of Ed's. I did offer to walk him to his dorm with a smile on my face but he laughed and said he thought he could handle the danger.

Nothing substantial came from this. I still know nothing more than I did before. And was it a "Date?" or not? I have no clue and I don't like being confused.


I turned in my art project, which was to make a symbol that represented us. Luckily I had already made one in previous High School math classes (See! It did come in handy Mr. Priebe!). I also learned by this project how to get the scanner on the printer to work. I had to buy another book for class, called Dreamweaver ($40 of waste I say)


Everyone left for break. Over breakfast and lunch, I managed to sneak an apple, banana, and four blueberry bagels out of the caf because I learned it would be closed over the break (!!!). Alex asked me if I could feed his fish, and then another girl that lives above me asked me too. So now I have two fish in my room (with those bubble eyes) and a key to Alex's room. Alex also gave me the key to his bike. Thank god.

Kyle then invited me to go home with him, but it was already too late! I had become the Fish Feeder! Sadly I declined but I think I will be happy about my decision. I have been trying to find my own secret place on this campus but have so far failed. So Time alone and my own room is doing me amazing good! I need to be able to let my guard down once in a while.

You guys really suck at comments. Where is my motivation if not for comments?

Love to those who write back,

Neil