I'm back!! here's more of the journal
Day 12
Spent the entire day animating again. I had to walk back in the pouring rain. I watched the old Stepford Wives with Molly, Emily, Leonora, and, "Steph". It's such a weird movie and reminded me of Orwell's 1984. It also seemed anti-technology. The really scary part was when Joanna met her robot self and robot Joanna had black orbs for eyes. Later after Molly and I went back to our room, Someone knocked on our door and I thought they were girls that were going to play a prank but got the wrong room. It turned out it was Emily, Steph and Leonora in their semiformal dresses acting like Stepford wives. It was funny.
Day 13
We started stop-motion today. Stop motion is when you take a camera, shoot an object, move the object a smidgen and then shoot again. Everyone shot against a blue screen. We're working in groups now and we decided to make an animaiton about 2 clay ants having a sword fight. Our ants have symbolic meaning too. The red one is Communist. In order to figure out what a swordfight looked like, Leonora and I borrowed Pirates of the Caribbean and watched the swordfight between Will and Jack in slow motion and then sword fought ourselves with rolled up pieces of paper. Steve actually came to help us but then slipped away sometime later. It was a lot of fun. I'm almost done with my hand drawn animation that i've been working on non-stop for the past few days. ALMOST! I miss my friends.
Day 14
It's friday again, geez the week went by so fast. I finally finished my hand drawn animation! 250-some freakin drawings. It looks like I just stole a whole package of printer paper. Now I just have to finish my puppet animation. While my group was working on our clamating, the dean of the art department swung by and "really digged" our armatures which is definetely a plus. Wow I still need to visit the admissions office. I finally saw Spiderman 2! It kind of felt like being last to read HP5, but it was AWESOME! WOW I LOVED THAT MOVIE! it didn't have the cheesiness of the first movie, but seemed to parody a sort of hero/damsel in distress typle of movie. Spiderman is HOT!! I love the scenes when he's trapezing around the city. It was GOOD AND FUNNY, and I can't want for the 3rd one. Tomorrow's six flags. We had an interesting dinner at the 1920 commons here's the run down..
FOOD: *was gross*
ASIANS: *suddenly appear*
WE: *are confused*
COOKIES: *are swiped*
and I ended up with a lot of crumbs in my purse.
Day 15
We went to Six Flags today and rode lots of rolercoasters. The longest we stood in line was about 1 and a half hours for Robin in The Chiller. It was a lot of fun, but really hot. After six flags, I watched Much Ado About Nothing and Meredith, Emily and I made fun of how the guy couldn't cry and how Keanu Reeves couldn't act. Strangely there wree a lot of actors I recognized in the movie like the guy who plays Gilderoy Lockhart and the lady who plays Trelawney, Keanu Reeves, the beetlejuice guy, and the suicide guy from Dead Poet's Society. Right after, we proceeded to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. t was the first time I had ever seen a full length Monty Python movie, so the night was filled with all sorts of off key humor. I heard AP scores have been mailed out. It's making me nervous b4ecause I did really bad on the free-response section of the Calc BC test and I can't say if the multiple choice section was any better. What really sucks is that only a 4 or a 5 really matter and I'm thinking I got 3's at best. Hopefully my dad will NOT open the letter but forward it to me like I asked. It would make me feel much less anxious.
Day 16
We went to eat Dim Sum in Chinatown today. It was interesting because all the chinese kids' parents weren't there so we had to fend for ourselves byt attempting to communicate with our crude chinese skills. The Dim Sum place had TVs in the corner of the room and it was like a cheap karaoke tape that had peaceful scenes and then young innocent looking girls wearing skimpy (but modest by US standards) clothing trying to seduce you. We figured these tapes were geared toward old men.
I did my laundry and bought an SAT II Writing book to try to study. Meredith, Moly and I watched The 4400 on USA. We had planned to watch it since we saw the commercials last week. It's really freaky. It's about these people who are returned to Earth after so many years and each person has a strange ability. We all thought it was a movie but it ended up being a miniseries! Damn, gotta wait till next Sunday. I got my AP scores. I just told my parents to get it over with. So here it is:
Calc BC:4
Calc AB:5
It's absof*ckinglutley amazing. I messed up on the majority fo the free response quesiton. I really feel sorry for those who got ones :/ I'm glad the suspense is over though.
Day 17
It monsoon rained ALL DAY. The sewers started flooding.
Philadelphia really has a terrible drainage system-kind of like Oregon's inefficient system for getting rid of snow. Everyone's feet were sopping wet. Molly hung her socks next to a crack in our window. I got a package of clothes from home today. Yay for clothes. I didn't get to eat dinner again because of the rain.
Day 18
Animation class is getting quite interesting. A new joke springs up everyday about our TA Brendan. Tomorow we're all dressing up like him to scare the crap out of him. He's going to be self-conscious for the rest of his life. Alex and I went to South city to find the necklace Brendan wears and we definetely found some. Man we're such dorks. All the girls are going to be wearing homestar shirts and none of the guys are going to know what the hell's going on. My group's ant animation is also becoming quite interesting. We added sounds and Pirates of hte Caribbean music which definetely saved the project. My shoe also makes a debut. I was supposed to pick up a package today but the damn packaging room closed early for no reason. I spent the rest of hte day looking at Amy's pictures of her asian friends and showing her EPGY pictures. AHH memories!
Day 19 Brendan/Bastille Day
I got up bright and early to get to the art building so we could get ready to transform into Brendans. When Maddie finally came, we hustled into the bathroom, whipped on red shirts and pinned on white stars. The necklace from yesterday and combing our hair to cover half our faces were the final touches. We then hurried back to our seats, much to the confusion of the boys. When Brendan finally came and noticed us, his respnse was that we were "creepy." Alex officially named today Brendan Day and Brendan noted that today was Bastille Day. Coincidentally the French National Anthem had been the joke of the class some time before. Therefore Brendan/Bastille Day was forever established as one of merriment.
There was a question and answer session today for the art students. We later had one just for our class. Scott was quite confusing in saying that big animation companies look for young undergrad students, but that we shouldn't worry abou having to choose what we wanted to do before we got into college. Basically animation is a lot more competitive than I thought. Conceptual design must be even harder. We watched Finding Nemo, a movie that I now much more appreciate. It monsoon -rained at night again.
However, by the time Emily, Molly, Leonora, Stephanie, and I decided to go out and get drenched, it stopped and we were left with puddles and a light drizzle.
Day 20
We started 3D animation with Maya today. Damn, that's such an annoying program! I couldn't figure out how to use it for the life of me. Usually I can just explore programs and learn them on my own, but Maya is so hard.I don't know why either! It's so frustrating. Anywya, during lunch, us animaiton freaks were discussing our future Pirate Day and going to buy pirate stuff (pirates of the caribbean music floats through my head). I made a hat out of a napkin and put it on my head...we had an interesting conversation about "being judged." eh, we were the coolest people in the hall, no worries. After doing my laundry, I hung out with Leonora surfing the internet, even though her desktop tells her not to.
Spent the entire day animating again. I had to walk back in the pouring rain. I watched the old Stepford Wives with Molly, Emily, Leonora, and, "Steph". It's such a weird movie and reminded me of Orwell's 1984. It also seemed anti-technology. The really scary part was when Joanna met her robot self and robot Joanna had black orbs for eyes. Later after Molly and I went back to our room, Someone knocked on our door and I thought they were girls that were going to play a prank but got the wrong room. It turned out it was Emily, Steph and Leonora in their semiformal dresses acting like Stepford wives. It was funny.
Day 13
We started stop-motion today. Stop motion is when you take a camera, shoot an object, move the object a smidgen and then shoot again. Everyone shot against a blue screen. We're working in groups now and we decided to make an animaiton about 2 clay ants having a sword fight. Our ants have symbolic meaning too. The red one is Communist. In order to figure out what a swordfight looked like, Leonora and I borrowed Pirates of the Caribbean and watched the swordfight between Will and Jack in slow motion and then sword fought ourselves with rolled up pieces of paper. Steve actually came to help us but then slipped away sometime later. It was a lot of fun. I'm almost done with my hand drawn animation that i've been working on non-stop for the past few days. ALMOST! I miss my friends.
Day 14
It's friday again, geez the week went by so fast. I finally finished my hand drawn animation! 250-some freakin drawings. It looks like I just stole a whole package of printer paper. Now I just have to finish my puppet animation. While my group was working on our clamating, the dean of the art department swung by and "really digged" our armatures which is definetely a plus. Wow I still need to visit the admissions office. I finally saw Spiderman 2! It kind of felt like being last to read HP5, but it was AWESOME! WOW I LOVED THAT MOVIE! it didn't have the cheesiness of the first movie, but seemed to parody a sort of hero/damsel in distress typle of movie. Spiderman is HOT!! I love the scenes when he's trapezing around the city. It was GOOD AND FUNNY, and I can't want for the 3rd one. Tomorrow's six flags. We had an interesting dinner at the 1920 commons here's the run down..
FOOD: *was gross*
ASIANS: *suddenly appear*
WE: *are confused*
COOKIES: *are swiped*
and I ended up with a lot of crumbs in my purse.
Day 15
We went to Six Flags today and rode lots of rolercoasters. The longest we stood in line was about 1 and a half hours for Robin in The Chiller. It was a lot of fun, but really hot. After six flags, I watched Much Ado About Nothing and Meredith, Emily and I made fun of how the guy couldn't cry and how Keanu Reeves couldn't act. Strangely there wree a lot of actors I recognized in the movie like the guy who plays Gilderoy Lockhart and the lady who plays Trelawney, Keanu Reeves, the beetlejuice guy, and the suicide guy from Dead Poet's Society. Right after, we proceeded to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. t was the first time I had ever seen a full length Monty Python movie, so the night was filled with all sorts of off key humor. I heard AP scores have been mailed out. It's making me nervous b4ecause I did really bad on the free-response section of the Calc BC test and I can't say if the multiple choice section was any better. What really sucks is that only a 4 or a 5 really matter and I'm thinking I got 3's at best. Hopefully my dad will NOT open the letter but forward it to me like I asked. It would make me feel much less anxious.
Day 16
We went to eat Dim Sum in Chinatown today. It was interesting because all the chinese kids' parents weren't there so we had to fend for ourselves byt attempting to communicate with our crude chinese skills. The Dim Sum place had TVs in the corner of the room and it was like a cheap karaoke tape that had peaceful scenes and then young innocent looking girls wearing skimpy (but modest by US standards) clothing trying to seduce you. We figured these tapes were geared toward old men.
I did my laundry and bought an SAT II Writing book to try to study. Meredith, Moly and I watched The 4400 on USA. We had planned to watch it since we saw the commercials last week. It's really freaky. It's about these people who are returned to Earth after so many years and each person has a strange ability. We all thought it was a movie but it ended up being a miniseries! Damn, gotta wait till next Sunday. I got my AP scores. I just told my parents to get it over with. So here it is:
Calc BC:4
Calc AB:5
It's absof*ckinglutley amazing. I messed up on the majority fo the free response quesiton. I really feel sorry for those who got ones :/ I'm glad the suspense is over though.
Day 17
It monsoon rained ALL DAY. The sewers started flooding.
Philadelphia really has a terrible drainage system-kind of like Oregon's inefficient system for getting rid of snow. Everyone's feet were sopping wet. Molly hung her socks next to a crack in our window. I got a package of clothes from home today. Yay for clothes. I didn't get to eat dinner again because of the rain.
Day 18
Animation class is getting quite interesting. A new joke springs up everyday about our TA Brendan. Tomorow we're all dressing up like him to scare the crap out of him. He's going to be self-conscious for the rest of his life. Alex and I went to South city to find the necklace Brendan wears and we definetely found some. Man we're such dorks. All the girls are going to be wearing homestar shirts and none of the guys are going to know what the hell's going on. My group's ant animation is also becoming quite interesting. We added sounds and Pirates of hte Caribbean music which definetely saved the project. My shoe also makes a debut. I was supposed to pick up a package today but the damn packaging room closed early for no reason. I spent the rest of hte day looking at Amy's pictures of her asian friends and showing her EPGY pictures. AHH memories!
Day 19 Brendan/Bastille Day
I got up bright and early to get to the art building so we could get ready to transform into Brendans. When Maddie finally came, we hustled into the bathroom, whipped on red shirts and pinned on white stars. The necklace from yesterday and combing our hair to cover half our faces were the final touches. We then hurried back to our seats, much to the confusion of the boys. When Brendan finally came and noticed us, his respnse was that we were "creepy." Alex officially named today Brendan Day and Brendan noted that today was Bastille Day. Coincidentally the French National Anthem had been the joke of the class some time before. Therefore Brendan/Bastille Day was forever established as one of merriment.
There was a question and answer session today for the art students. We later had one just for our class. Scott was quite confusing in saying that big animation companies look for young undergrad students, but that we shouldn't worry abou having to choose what we wanted to do before we got into college. Basically animation is a lot more competitive than I thought. Conceptual design must be even harder. We watched Finding Nemo, a movie that I now much more appreciate. It monsoon -rained at night again.
However, by the time Emily, Molly, Leonora, Stephanie, and I decided to go out and get drenched, it stopped and we were left with puddles and a light drizzle.
Day 20
We started 3D animation with Maya today. Damn, that's such an annoying program! I couldn't figure out how to use it for the life of me. Usually I can just explore programs and learn them on my own, but Maya is so hard.I don't know why either! It's so frustrating. Anywya, during lunch, us animaiton freaks were discussing our future Pirate Day and going to buy pirate stuff (pirates of the caribbean music floats through my head). I made a hat out of a napkin and put it on my head...we had an interesting conversation about "being judged." eh, we were the coolest people in the hall, no worries. After doing my laundry, I hung out with Leonora surfing the internet, even though her desktop tells her not to.