Amazingly I’m still alive. Really it hasn’t been that bad. I’ve been agonizing about course selection for months, but more intensely the last few weeks. It turns out I made some good choices (I may change my views on this as the semester progresses obviously).
What’s happening:
The Graduate Informatics Student Association is starting up, and I can’t wait to get it going.
I’m taking “Interaction Culture” with Jeff Bardzell, it’s exciting stuff, and Jeff knows how to handle a class. Fun thing is, we have a course blog. It looks very promising indeed.
I’m taking “HCI Design Theory” with Erik Stolterman, Erik rules, and is very quotable. I’m sure you’ll see some tweets about a few of these. All I can say is that the second day he mentioned the word’s “Utlimate Particular” and “Aristotle.” I’m feeling pretty comfortable at this stage, but I’m sure I’ll be out of my depth really quick.
I presented to stakeholders the current status on the Games Analysis Database (what’s with the capitals, yet I am compelled to use them). I think it went reasonably well, I honestly just want to see the project move forward.
I tried to go visit President McRobbie, but had to leave for my aforementioned presentation before it was my turn. Hopefully I’ll be able to meet with him in the next month.
I will hopefully have something a little more enlightening to say, but in the meantime here is a link to some of the places where I have some shared items:
