Finally up to date so I should be able to remember these lessons better.
We meet again,
David was sick today, a lot of people have been recently. Not me though, I’ve gotten lucky. I wish I would’ve stayed home today because I have some work for my previous job to do. On Wednesday we started the day with a little time to review Eevo, an interactive story building program I signed up for a demo of. Then we had a 2 hour long meeting about “Time Management and Working Independently”. This was ironic to me as it was such a waste of time. I asked the class if they ever enjoyed those things and it got the same reaction as if I asked about their thoughts on ice breakers. The presenter was very nice and had great energy but the material was rather dule. It could’ve all been summed up to “take breaks, don’t procrastinate, ask for help, minimize distractions” in about 15 minutes but instead we spent 1.5 hours on this asking the class their opinions every slide. I know people are trying to make the presentation interactive but it just wastes time when the material is so straightforward that no one interacts. Maybe its just one of those things that you pick up little tricks subconsciously and it really does benefit to hear. Actually now that I write it out, I feel like that’s probably the case. For the rest of class on Wednesday we worked on our interactive film. Basically we just filmed our shots and started uploading them. I was pretty salty when we went to film in the library and got kicked out due to “lack of permission”. So we have to film on campus but we aren’t allowed to in certain areas? When I say it out loud it actually sounds very reasonable but I was so annoyed at the time as I didn’t want to film at the school to begin with. We didn’t have Eric this week because he was doing a presentation and so instead we spent more time working on the interactive film. I was pretty disappointed by this because I really like Eric. Maybe I like him because we come from the same continent and I feel like I can relate more when we talk therefore making me a lot more comfortable talking to him. Or maybe its because I was impressed with his artistic vision in his portfolio so much so that I want to impress him with MY artistic vision for the energizing warmth of approval from someone better than you. Its probably a bit of everything but the main reason is definitely that beautiful beard.