san francisco
Yesterday I went to San Francisco against my better judgment (more on that later). I drove down with Oliver, Shawna, and a guy I just met, Luke, at 8am to be in the city by 11. After a brief shopping stint, we met up with about 15 or so other CSU, Chico AIGA members at the Chronicle Books headquarters which is on the 5th and 6th floors of a nondescript building downtown. We were given a nice tour and brief overview of the company and a few processes of publishing books and gifts by a just-out-of-her-internship employee. It was alright, I guess, but I’m glad I’m not a graphic designer or illustrator or project lead for any publisher, let alone at Chronicle.
We also toured the student work at the College of the Arts downtown (which was quite underwhelming for a college that costs $13,812 per term), and went to a presentation of “50 books, 50 covers” put on by AIGA and the San Francisco Center Center for the Book. At 7pm, we stuck around for a panel discussion with the people who chose the books for the show. It was informative, but I feel as if the 2 hour discussion could have been cut to 20 minutes. It was, however, interesting to see the viewpoints of book lovers about the internet and all things digital. Theirs is such a foreign world to me, as almost everything I do is computer-based somehow, but these people are so content with their books that they are nearly blind to the digital world around them. Whatever, I felt it was not my place to speak up for fear of being shot down by the masses.
I said the trip was against my better judgement because it forced me to miss two vital classes: calculus, and computer architecture. Calculus is one of the classes you “just don’t miss” not for fear of the teacher’s wrath, but for fear of falling behind. I hope I can pull it off… In computer architecture, however, I missed a vital midterm which I am making up at 9am on Monday by the graces of my oh-so-old and curmudgeonly teacher. Who needs to know how to pipeline a MIPS processor anyway?
So today, my Saturday, I get to teach myself the calculus I missed while absent physically yesterday, and all the stuff I’ve missed while absent-mindedly listening to lectures the other 4 days a week I have been in class for the last few months. What does this self-teaching look like? Something like this 30-minute time lapse video I took with my MBP iSight at work just now:
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