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Clearance on All Red Trucks

Today was day four of orientation, and I thought the previous day was challenging. We filled this day with practicing sensemaking. Today did indeed finally make sense, but the details took quite a bit...

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So working in groups is hard, now what?

Keep working. Today is the first day we drew. Was it Drawing 101, draw some white boxes and cones and cylinders? Learn to draw shadow and perspective? NEWP. We sketched vignettes (a single page drawing...

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Day 4 Vignettes

The new challenges just keep coming. At this orientation, the name of the game seems to be practicing and committing all these activities and skills to habit. What a lot of skills there are too....

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Baptized with a Boot

The end of the beginning hath arrived. We have completed the orientation week. This week of assigned work was not even close to the difficult part but this, without doubt, had plenty of challenges....

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Week 2 Reflections: Still not drinking coffee

I’ve always thought of myself as relatively laid-back. I prefer chilling to being active, I like my drama to be on television—not in real life, I’m calm in a crisis. But ask me to present a six minute...

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Making the Grade

In one of my earlier blog posts during orientation I wrote that I was worried about failing. We were told constantly that we’d fail in the beginning for the simple reason that we don’t know what we’re...

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Week 4 Reflections

Apparently we’re halfway through Q1? Scott mentioned that in our Theory/102 class on Thursday. We had another assignment and presentation due in that class this week. We had to take all 8 authors we’d...

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Week Seven (Seven?!) Reflections

Two days after my last Reflections blog post we got an email from Ruby saying that they were no longer mandatory but if they help then of course we should keep blogging. And I thought, “I like them,...

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Break.

It’s been a minute (since Q1) since I wrote a reflection post. And at the time I was full of nerves and had quit drinking coffee because it was making me too anxious. Q2 was much better because I...

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Designing for Value Systems: Part I

Last week I led a 30 minute, focused conversation connecting the readings on dark patterns in UI with the mission statement and value promise of JUST – our partnered client in this years Capstone...

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