Learning Journal

1) can we have room open early? I would love some time to work before class and ask questions. Last week class was open early, made me kick myself as i was not prepared to take advantage of that rare time when fewer people are asking questions.

2) I think I have refrigerator amnesia; well in the fact that when I’m in class I can do stuff but when i go home I cant seem to recall anything. I feel like a drooling idiot last week.

I can recall a friend of mine who had surgery and was also going to grad school AND also worked full time. She told me that when she was home she was going to do SO MUCH homework. In reality she admitted later that she did nothing at all but heal from surgery.

I am not as clever or hard working as she is, but feel a lot like she did. I have to try harder.

So this week I learned….

I feel overwhelmed right now…

Almost half way through the semester and its been a lot of fun…

Some people would love to stand out in a crowd. But me, I am happy going along with the flow most of the time. This year at the Addys Awards Gala I thought it would be fun to do a little dress up. In past years, it was a thing – people really got into it. This year the theme was decades, exploring advertising throughout the decades of the local club. And since all this year’s promotion was centered around a very strong retro 50s and 60s styling I thought that would be a fun genre to dress up.

Hard to believe that we are half way through the semester already. I feel like I have learned a lot so far. I felt a little better this week in regards to my coding. I was really frustrated with the Concentric website and spent way more time then I wanted to on the project. The one plus side is by spending that much time doing trial and error, I was able to learn how the codes effected the page. The responsive design was a really cool project. I still feel like I have a lot more to learn. It would be really great that by the end of this class I knew how to push my website live so the public could view it. Hopefully, I will get a chance to learn how to do this by the end of the class.

Well, it’s almost time to do week 6 journal so, I guess I better do week 5….

I can’t believe it’s that easy. I thought designing responsive websites for mobile screens would be very difficult.

Aesthetic, accessible, efficient . . . those are at least three things a good website should be . . .

You ever have those days where you regret getting out of bed?

So I went to the ad club event, to see what it is and to have the adventure. I like the idea of being a person who goes to meetings like this and sees new things. Unfortunately I saw more than I wanted to, but that was before the meeting.

So I was horribly early, as is my habit when I have no real idea where I am going. Wondered around the neighborhood for a while and then tripped and fell down.

Yes I landed hard and stupidly, right in front of a homeless person. I blew up and swore then apologized as I was embarrassed to trip and fall in front of someone, seems like a lot of drama to impose on a stranger. The homeless person didn’t think so and immediately started to yell at me.

I think she was more offended by me saying “sorry” after swearing, and she found that offensive. I was confused and apologized again for some reason, which really set her off. Thats when I saw the guy down the street taping me on his phone.

So I did go to ER and get it checked out on Friday (another tale of drama), got a brace and a note and a lot more embarrassed. I didn’t really study last weekend, am far behind than I wanted to be, but am dedicated to starting to work as hard as my hand will allow to catch up for my injury-weekend-adventure.

I think next time I would rather stay home and do homework.

This week was definitely more difficult for me, a lot to take in and learn.

Attending the Ad Club Student Creative Kickstart session I was impressed that practically all the ideas presented was about video, motion graphics, digital interactive screens and everything motion. A new trend – not. It is what communication will be in the near future.

This week was a struggle. I had a really hard time with the flex box and concentric project. I spent way more time on this project then I would have liked. I tried to do the projects without looking at the notes and realized that without a starting point, I seem to blank out and would feel lost. Once I looked at the code then it clicked. I’m not sure if it’s the anxiety of having to write code or just feeling confident in myself that I know how to code is what I’m struggling with.