Jamin Hegeman

Tag: cmu

  • Another Catch-up Post

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    I feel a bit lame, having not written in a while. This month, and this upcoming week in particular, is proving to be one of the most dense. I haven’t had a head to write. This post will likely be a rambling of complaints. Complainers are annoying. Today I woke up and read two articles…

  • Starting to Think About Theses

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    Monday we had a meeting regarding choosing a thesis project and paper for the upcoming year. Over the course of the next month, it was suggested we start talking to faculty to see where there is a synergy in interests. Currently, I have no clear thoughts about what I will do for my thesis. I…

  • Job Fair Approaching

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    On the 22nd and 23rd, the School of Design has its annual job fair. As a first-year student, it’s an opportunity for me to talk to potential employers about summer internships. In addition to our regular nearly impossible workload, I’ve been writing and designing my résumé and planning my portfolio. Soon, I must actually design…

  • First Info Vis Crit

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    I haven’t talked much about my Information Visualization course with Ben Fry and Golan Levin. They are quite an amusing pair, a mix of design and art and nerdery. Today we had our first crit, which only involved select projects. Mine was not one of them. And thank goodness for that, because it was dreadful.…

  • Brief Update

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    I finished my resume, but it’s not online. It was sent to companies that will be coming to the school of design’s job fair. Also, I have yet to update my online portfolio. I hope to find time to do that soon. But I don’t know when I’ll find time. The Emergence team got some…

  • BTW, Resumes Due Tomorrow

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    Due to some unfortunate miscommunication, the resumes that the design grad students need to submit for distribution to the companies that will be courting us during a job fair later this month are not due on Monday, but tomorrow. Lovely. So guess what I’m working on? Fortunately, my resume prior to grad school is in…

  • Emergence Team 2007

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    For my assistanceship this semester, I have been placed on the Emergence team. What is Emergence? It’s a student-run conference put on by the CMU School of Design. Last September was the first one, and it was quite a success. My specific responsibility is the website. Though I am also the team lead. I am…

  • Drafting My Definition of Interaction Design

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    Tomorrow we are required to turn in a two-page, single-spaced essay answering the question What Is Interaction Design? This is a question that many have attempted to answer, but for which there is no consensus given the multidisciplinary background of interaction design and its intangible nature. Incidentally, I finished Dan Saffer‘s Designing for Interaction tonight.…

  • Working with Motorola

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    Our Studio 2 course consists of one group project over the entire semester. We are collaborating with Motorola on a project called Mobile Media Life, in which we’ll explore imaging, communicating, visualizing, and viewing media in everyday life. The goal that has been stressed to us is determining how we can help people become skilled…