Going through the grad application, it looks like the hardest thing after a portfolio will be the personal statement complete with academic goals, career objectives, reason for applying and qualifications that make me a strong canidate. With the written word as my enemy, I'm getting started on that as soon as possible and found a website with all sorts of advice on writing a Statement of Purpose.

Looking through my projects in college, the one I found most interesting dealt with the internet and control- controlling a lamp through the web and a Rabbit board. I also thought the class in which we did the project was the most frustrating, sicne we dealt with only slightly with web programming, but not good design of anything for the web.

Most of my other projects had web aspects, including an ill-fated one in databases and the clusterfuck of my senior project.

I'm not sure what I want to do after school, beyond wear jeans, sandals and a tank top every day to work. I'll switch to boots and sweaters once it gets cold. Kareoke, though a passion, doesn't seem quite in the stream of the program unless I could combine it with theatre. Maybe music that followed your voice tempo on stage, like a live orchestra would? And combine it with Fusion.

I don't recall writing many papers at all in college except for Networks (on the Nagle Algorithm), Computer Architecture (On the 4-stage pipleine in the G3), and Freshman Comp (fucking class.) Not too much of a help there, I liked the little details of the tech papers in the way that I liked my Physics paper in High School on Concrete. And hated my Freshman Comp teacher.

In my spare time, I read up on usability, design, and I really enjoy I.D. magazine, but more for the well-designed products than the architectural spaces. My favorites are the ones that can take the place of normal objects but, because of the good design, use less space/energy/resources than conventional products. Just because someone thought about them.

From the talk with Thom, I got the indication that anything in Theater would be a huge plus and interesting focus, but it doesn't looks like much of my background, beyond where I work now, supports that focus. Rather, it looks like it's more of a focus on usability design with everyday products. Perhaps with grad school, I could complete my dream of finding the perfect hot chocolate mug: with a handle big enough for my entire fist, well balanced when full to mostly empty, big enough around for both my hands to hold, and pretty.