good story :D
Sep. 6th, 2006 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ayashiOkay so, good story!
I was 10 minutes late out of Ethics. The class ran 5 minutes late then I had to take 5 minutes in a line (well more like a giant group) to sign my name on a piece of paper to try to get in to the class where tons of people "cut" in front of me. That left 5 minutes for me to get to my Digital Media: Time Based class! So I RAN to Lederle and I was about to die x_x I was about twenty feet from the building and decided I should find out exactly what room the class was in!
So, I checked the paper... and it said that indeed the class does meet in A127 on Tuesdays. Except! Today was not Tuesday! In fact the class was listed as being in BARTLETT on wednesdays :D which was easily 1.5 times the distance that I had already run, and in a different direction :D SO I ran to Bartlett and found room 12. Only to realize I'd misread my white paper and it was 121 not 12!
However this is not yet the icing on the delicious cake.
I went back upstairs and found room 121... it was dark. I went in and no one was there. On the chalkboard I see written "Where are you ART 397CC? We went to Lederle to see if you are there."
D:
I plodded over to Lederle, half dead by now from all the running, and eventually found room A127. I sat in there, taking the very last computer and scared to death that someone else would come in and take the spot, since I wasn't signed up :( but thankfully no one came in and the teacher said she was willing to sign an override form for me :D YAY
The worst part about this class though is it is VERY EXPENSIVE. We need to buy an external hard drive (that allows us to connect via Firewire) and we also need to have a camera to record video and sound. That all comes to over $400. I am going to talk to my dad and see if he has anything that I can use, and since Jared is in the class too, we can probably collaborate on the prices somewhat.
I made up for all the calories I've avoided today by getting pizza across the street because I was way too hungry to cook anything.
Don't know what else to write about so I guess I should post this!
I was 10 minutes late out of Ethics. The class ran 5 minutes late then I had to take 5 minutes in a line (well more like a giant group) to sign my name on a piece of paper to try to get in to the class where tons of people "cut" in front of me. That left 5 minutes for me to get to my Digital Media: Time Based class! So I RAN to Lederle and I was about to die x_x I was about twenty feet from the building and decided I should find out exactly what room the class was in!
So, I checked the paper... and it said that indeed the class does meet in A127 on Tuesdays. Except! Today was not Tuesday! In fact the class was listed as being in BARTLETT on wednesdays :D which was easily 1.5 times the distance that I had already run, and in a different direction :D SO I ran to Bartlett and found room 12. Only to realize I'd misread my white paper and it was 121 not 12!
However this is not yet the icing on the delicious cake.
I went back upstairs and found room 121... it was dark. I went in and no one was there. On the chalkboard I see written "Where are you ART 397CC? We went to Lederle to see if you are there."
D:
I plodded over to Lederle, half dead by now from all the running, and eventually found room A127. I sat in there, taking the very last computer and scared to death that someone else would come in and take the spot, since I wasn't signed up :( but thankfully no one came in and the teacher said she was willing to sign an override form for me :D YAY
The worst part about this class though is it is VERY EXPENSIVE. We need to buy an external hard drive (that allows us to connect via Firewire) and we also need to have a camera to record video and sound. That all comes to over $400. I am going to talk to my dad and see if he has anything that I can use, and since Jared is in the class too, we can probably collaborate on the prices somewhat.
I made up for all the calories I've avoided today by getting pizza across the street because I was way too hungry to cook anything.
Don't know what else to write about so I guess I should post this!
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Date: 2006-09-06 09:27 pm (UTC)You can also get one of those disposable video cameras at walmart and hack it so you can reuse it as many times as you want. Those are like $30.
So you would end up spending $130 altogether.
I can't help you on finding out how to hack the camcorder, but you can find stuff online. I've had several friends do this.
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Date: 2006-09-06 09:32 pm (UTC)I definitely plan on shopping around smartly for a camcorder though. And for the hard drive, if they sell them at the campus store, Jared can buy them for "free" because the commission for the blind will buy one, so he could get that and pay nothing for it, and then we could pay together for the camcorder or something to cut on costs :X
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Date: 2006-09-06 09:38 pm (UTC)I said buy an internal hard drive and an external enclosure. It'll run you $100 for a 250 gig one. It's basically building an external hard drive on your own. (if you *bought* and external hard drive, you'd be spending $150 more). Also, the macs you're using probably have USB and your professor is probably just dumb. Apple has been putting USB into it's machines for years and years now. (USB is actually faster than firewire now, so all the digital media is switching over, and apple is abandoning firewire soon)
I have two external hard ones (one I build and one I bought built, which is crappier and slower), and I use final cut (in the lab and on my laptop), and they're great for taking to projects to work on the Macs in our video labs at RPI.
It's also super simple to transfer between PCs and Macs, especially if you first format on a mac, and go back that way. I is a mac user, I's knows whats is good and whats are baaad.
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Date: 2006-09-06 09:47 pm (UTC)