I feel terrible.
I just found out that the CMU HCI Institute requires Ph.D. applications to submit GRE subject test scores. I didn’t take the GRE subject tests. To say this jeopardizes my application is an understatement. It turns a long shot into a faint glimmer of a long shot.
Why didn’t I take [...]
Archive for December, 2003
Watercolors
31Dec03I have put online some watercolors I made for people this Christmas. I sent in my Colorado application yesterday, next up is Carnegie Mellon HCII, which makes me nervous. I will be glad when this application process is over.
Teen-speak
30Dec03I found an amazing bit of teen internet-speak today:
hey!!! i am so bored!!! 2 day woz crap!!! i slept up bekas lst nite an we were up all nite talking and watching films : ) this morning i wnt 2 town wiv beka an her sis an then i seen the 2 bitches 4rm hell [...]
Kate had this quote in
19Dec03Kate had this quote in her profile, and I liked it enough to repost it here:
“In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of- moments when we human beings can say “I love you,” “I’m proud of you,” [...]
The death of quirks
17Dec03It makes me a little sad when someone moves and a quirk dies. For example, take the Yankees fan in Storrs. In Storrs, almost equidistant from New York and Boston, there are Yankees fans and there are Red Sox fans. There is no consensus, no dominant force, no acquiescence, just ongoing battle [...]
Press organizations
13Dec03It’s interesting, Reuters and the Associated Press seem from the outside to provide very similar functions, yet their beginnings are quite different. Reuters began in 1851 as a small telegraph company transmitting stock quotes between London and Paris. The AP, on the other hand, was created in a musty boardroom three years earlier [...]
Language Survey
13Dec03I have been reading quite a survey of the nativist perspective on language and arguments against it, including whorfian and connectionist perspectives. More links than I could ever hope to follow.
Working at Red Hat
12Dec03Wow. Apparently, Red Hat is hiring for an interaction designer position. I sent my resume in, who knows what will come of it. I would love to work for them–they more than anyone really understand why Open Source works so well. Obviously I’d love to work on improving the usability of [...]
Well, my Cornell and Carnegie
10Dec03Well, my Cornell and Carnegie Mellon Psychology applications are signed, sealed and delivered. I feel good about them, and good about the personal statements that they contain. But right now I am working on my MIT application. I hate my MIT application.
My MIT application wants me to know not only my grade [...]
Sadie (cat) is on my
09Dec03Sadie (cat) is on my lap as I am typing this. She finds the Radiohead (Like Spinning Plates) coming out of my pass-through headphones rather disconcerting.
The moral of the story: cats hate Radiohead.
