Jamin Hegeman

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  • A Real Taste of Dick

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    Much as I expected, my idea of “data” was completely off the mark. For 80 minutes this morning, Dick Buchanan tortured us with questions and rhetoric trying to extract the four types of data. No one had a clue. I’m not sure if Dick enjoyed pulling our teeth, or if he thought we should have…

  • It’s Only Tuesday

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    Have I really already completed two days of grad school? Have I really only completed two days of grad school? Surely, it’s not Tuesday already. And surely, it’s not only Tuesday? I am just beginning to understand how this is going to rock my world. My life as I knew it before, my life as…

  • Fall Semester Begins; Free Beer

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    Today the fall semester began, as did my adventure into interaction design. My first class was design seminar with Dick Buchanan, and my second class was design study with Dan Boyarski. Both classes were interesting and I took some good notes, points from which I thought I could share. However, I left my notes at…

  • CMU Grad Design Orientation

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    I arrived on campus 15 minutes before orientation started, so I went to the design office to turn in my time card for the Emergence conference website. No one was in the office except some guy. He was sitting in the administrator area, so I assumed he was an administrator. He asked if I was…

  • Debating About Courses

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    As an interaction design student, I have four courses that I was automatically signed up for, all of which are required. One of the courses, Design Computing, is primarily as Flash course. As I have designed and developed with Flash for many years, I got this course waived. I then signed up for Graduate Typography.…