Last Thursday's class started out with a presentation on CSIT's ILP. An ILP is an individual learning plan, kind of like a 2 year plan where you plan out which classes you take. We have to fill it out and meet with Tammy and a staff advisor to get it checked out in the next couple of weeks. I started filling it out, and I hope I'm still able to graduate in Spring 2012. I'm planning on taking a lot of software design classes, and internet programming and intro to computer networks. I'm taking those two classes because I feel like it will give me a wider variety of skills. Sathya also mentioned graduate school, and I'm glad I took calculus 1 and calculus 2 so I have the option of getting my masters. It's definitely something I want to pursue, but I'm not sure if I can do it right out of college.
Kevin Cahill also came to talk to our class. He's in charge of the web design classes in the school of ITCD and also teaches the ethics course, CST 373. He showed us pictures of chairs and houses. The single foot chair that was invented in the 50s was crazy! I didn't realize what timeless design was until seeing that picture. He talked a little bit about thewildernessdowntown.com , the new site that uses HTML5. My sister showed it to me the other day and it's awesome! It really gets you pumped for the future and HTML 5.
Then professor Bude Su came to talk to us about the Human Interface class and the capstone class. She started out with a competition to guessing what her first language was. I had a few guesses but would have never guessed Mongolian! Then she started talking about our capstone projects. Just the word capstone makes me scared! It seems like such a huge project. She said a few problems people run into is procrastination and taking on a project they aren't capable of. The second problem scares me because I want to make a video game for my capstone. I've never programmed a video game before, but I'm going to try my best and get enough knowledge to make one. I want to start my capstone next fall so I can graduate the spring after that, but who knows what'll happen between then and now.
For this week, we also had to look at study habits and time management websites. The study habits had useful tips on reading, or maybe I just found it useful because I'm not a very good textbook reader. It said to ask questions and try to get the main idea. When I read, I just try to get to the end of the reading assignment as soon as possible, just looking at my book gives me a headache. I'm going to try to follow the reading tips now. And for the time management tips... I'm not sure they came in handy for me. I don't have a lot of free time to manage, I either work have school or study during the week. On the weekends I do some homework on friday, no homework on saturday, and a lot of homework on sunday.
http://home.csumb.edu/t/tordacatrina/world/ActivityLog.pdf
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