Countdown to Summer

With only two days remaining until summer is here I can hardly wait. This semester seemed to blow by then come to a grinding halt all at once. I'm ready for a break from school and having a few months to sit back, relax and enjoy the good weather as well as see my parents.

For everyone I leave behind up in San Jose I look forward to seeing you on my trips up here and in July when I move back.

To my brothers AEKDB and see you all soon.

Video Project FINISHED!

Finally after hours of editing and getting the footage together.

Just glad that this is finally over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTK-I9V9I6M

For the YouTube Link

E-Portfolio

Dreamweaver:
http://www.jmc.sjsu.edu/student/newmedia_fang/s2009/evan-space/evan-space/index.html

Photoshop: http://www.jmc.sjsu.edu/student/newmedia_fang/s2009/evans/header.jpg

InDesign: http://www.jmc.sjsu.edu/student/newmedia_fang/s2009/evans/evanspaper.pdf

And heres the links to what I've completed this semester, all I can say is thank god that its all over. Other then finishing off my video project and one more paper for my classes this semester is all but over. I can't wait for summer but am also ready to start my Senior year.

I hope that everyone enjoyed New Media this semester and see you all in the fall.

Final Lost Blog from April

So I was able to salvage some of the blogs from my hardware failure on my computer as seen with my last two posts in May that were actually ready to be published for April.

I'm just glad that things are working out and that I was able to recover some of the lost data.

School for the month of April has been a challenge with managing everything and maintaining my standard of excellence for all of my classes, with the final push for the end of the year and finals. I've continued to push back a project or two until the deadline and then be forced to finish it the night before and due to this I've received a few lack luster grades.

While I try to keep my procrastination to a minimum it really seems to be something I do far more this semester then ever before in college, and I think its part due to pledging and part just there seems to be a lot more things to do on week night then last semester.

I just hope that I'm able to go into the final month of May and finish off my Junior year the way it started. End with above a 3.0 and head home for the summer.

See you all in May

3.1 and Wrath

With the release of 3.1 new content and raid environemet has been added to the game. While I have not gotten a ton of play time in due to school work, from what I have seen the new zone is truely a challenge not to be riviled with.

While mages saw yet more nerfs across the board and Inscription is becoming a worthless profession I still find myself holding on to it due to the fact of getting Server First in the trade skill, seems a bit rough to toss it aside after getting that achievement.

"3.1 is supposed to be the huge balance patch to fix all, and while it's promising, it's looking to be no different than any other patch in which 2-3 classes from the middle ground rise up to be overpowered or dominate the top; initially at least. However, I don't think I've ever seen a patch so huge in terms of balance changes, and decent ones at that. Blizzard seems to be responding to issues that plagued season 5, and even if it took a long time, they're still doing something to at least bring the game back to a level that isn't nearly as mediocre as before. You can't help but to be happy at that, even when **** is going to be laggy and unstable for a week just like every patch."

Check out www.worldofraids.com for updates on whats happening in Wrath

Broken Hardware

So this past Thursday I managed to break my laptop and lose all of my information including my blogs that I had written for the month April, fun huh? After having burned out my video card on my desktop to breaking my laptop its been quite a fun month to say the least, so now I figure ill just rewrite what I was planning on posting.

The month of April has been a busy month for me in not only school life but also fraternity life. This month we had our PD up at Berkeley and with the theme "Boats and Hoe’s” it was quite fun though I spent most of my time making sure that everything going well and insuring that other people had a good time, I mean its a fair trade for one person to have an average time if it allows fifty others to have a great night, a small sacrifice. I also was awarded "Super Pledge" and received my paddle from my big brother Jordan. That about wraps up PD but there was plenty more that occurred these months don’t worry.

Also this month we had our wonderful imitation, I'm now a full brother of Kappa Sigma Fraternity even though from time to time the label JI gets tossed around, but I believe its just an on going label that’s gotten tossed down year to year though it holds no real negative connotation. It feels fantastic to have the burden of pledging off my shoulders and able to focus on all of the class work that I had put off the whole semester. While I still am managing mostly A's and B's a grade or two has slipped due to this, but I'm working on that recovery.

Our philanthropic event went off to a huge success and also gave me footage for my video that I'm planning on doing. Beauty Bowl raised over $1400 for the wonderful ladies of Alpha Phi and the society they wish to give the money to.

That’s about all I have for now, god I love and hate computers from time to time, I guess its all about learning to find that happy medium.


Also this month we had our wonderful iniation, I'm now a full brother of Kappa Sigma Fraternity even though from time to time the lable JI gets tossed around, but I believe its just an on going lable thats gotten tossed down year to year though it holds no real negitive connotation. It feels fantastic to have the burden of pledging off my shoulders and able to focus on all of the class work that I had put off the whole semester. While I still am managing mostly A's and B's a grade or two has slipped due to this, but I'm working on that recovery.

Our philanthropic event went off to a huge success and also gave me footage for my video that I'm planning on doing. Beauty Bowl raised over $1400 for the wonderful ladies of Alpha Phi and the society they wish to give the money to.

Thats about all I have for now, god I love and hate computers from time to time, I guess its all about learning to find that happy medium.

Spring Break

Spring Break was an amazing time to go home and catch up with everyone from SoCal again. I got to see the usual crew and see how they were doing and what all they have done in my absence. Over break we celebrated Ryan's 23ed birthday, went to Vegas with my friends Lulu and Zan, and mourned the loss of a great friend Sandeep.

Ryan's birthday was the weekend after we returned home, was a coming together of old friends and just great to see everyone, and find out how everyone was doing. Aside from all most getting in a fight with his girlfriends brother while intoxicated it evening went quite well and I for the most part was able to catch up with all those who I left behind back in SoCal.

Vegas was fantastic, stayed in master suites in the Paris and gambled and drank like all college kids should do in Vegas. On Tuesday Zan, Frado, Lulu, and I headed out in the E55 to make the trip to Vegas. This was my first trip back to Vegas since I was 21 and all I have to say is that it was an amazing experience. While losing money was no fun for the total drink / gambling losses coming down to a $70 that’s a number I can afford. I could not of asked to go with better people.

Finally the most tragic event over the break was the death of a good high school friend Sandeep, you will truly be missed bud and I wish you the best where ever you are now. May you rest in peace.


Another Spring Break down means I'm just that much closer to graduation, I can only hope that my next one is as eventful as this one minus the death of a loved on.

Sandeep

Sandeep Ajith died in his sleep sometime last week. His family had a small ceremony for him on Sunday, March 22, 2009.

Apparently, he had been suffering from some sort of illness over the last few months and was in and out of the hospital. He died in his sleep at his home in Chicago, IL.

At this time, his family has not given much information on his death but when I find out, I'll let everyone know I can.


All I know is that this is a goddamn tragedy. Sandeep was incredibly smart and gifted. He was going to be a doctor.

The fact that I don't know what happened or when he died makes me feel cheated...like none of it is real. I'm expecting the crazy little bastard to pop out of the other room and start cussing me out...good times...

You'll be missed my friend. Rest in peace

Shamrock Showcase

Shamrock showcase occurred last Thursday and was yet another amazing event hosted by the lovely ladies of Kappa Delta. Our group started the night off early customizing T shirts and heading to the event together, arriving around 6:30.

The event is hosted to raise money to prevent child abuse in America, and more then expected turned out to the event on Thursday. Filling the auditorium by DBH on campus, Greeks and non-Greeks alike came together under one roof to show our support for Kappa Delta's philanthropy, and help raise awareness of this plague that sweeps our nation.

Just Another Week

Another week down and it draws closer and closer to Spring Break and a week of freedom from all responsibility that comes with being a college student. With an overwhelming amount of papers and projects planned for the semester time management has become a key factor in getting through this semester. On top of a 15 upper division schedule I've been elected to Treasurer of my pledge class for Kappa Sigma

This semester will differently be a trial for me, to make sure that I can continue to keep up with my work along with avoiding the neglect that comes with dedication to a lot of my time to different areas involved with school.

I'm also working on securing an internship for this summer, and received a call back from Nordstrom application so will be hearing back more in the coming weeks about whats happening with that. I can only hope that I'm accepted because that would allow me to work from Sunny Southern California rather then the Silicon Valley during the summer.

That's all for now have a great weekend

There and Back Again, With Still No Help

Just a quick little blip I decided to post. Today I went to see my councilors to make sure that all my classes were in order and that I was on the path needed in order to graduate Spring 2010. However I love the misguided information that every department on campus gives you, I have never felt so helpless and tired from jumping through hoops in hopes of finding out the information I needed. From being sent to window R to IND 225 (which was the wrong room thank you for that misinformation, you are a councilor you should know what room you're sending me to and not make some random ass guess.)

After going through all the work and finally finding out how to get my WST scores that I was told to take prior to attending in the Fall of 2008, were not valid because I took them at Cal State Long Beach and was not attending class there. So thank you transfer information day you guys are 100% worthless and just toss those who attend your university out on the ground with little help or guidance, and the guidance that you do provide is inaccurate and wrong, what the hell is wrong with a system like that?

So now I find out that I need to take ANOTHER writing skills test in April because god forbid the score I received while taking it at CSULB doesnt reflect my actual knowledge, and have to shell out another $25 for said test. So thats a grand total of $100 that will be spent on testing with only $25 of it actually counting, all of thats on top of the hours that I spent driving to and from and taking the god damn test.

If any of these individuals worked for me in MY company I would sure as hell kicked them out the door a long time ago for providing false information to potential clients. So to you CSU system learn what the fuck you are actually doing, before you go off and tell others.

New Semester, New Activities, New Responsibility.

This past week has been one of the busiest in my academic and social career, its a good thing I'm currently not working our I might of broken under the stress of what I had to come. During last week I had a grand total of 12 chapters of reading, 4 papers, a power point, and two in class presentations that I was to be held accountable for, and that was without having a backlog of class work. Good thing that so far this semester I have been on top of my academic life, along with my social life.

With the weekend came the end of dry RUSH for Kappa Sigma, and lead off to the kick off event of the fall, steak dinner. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet everyone in my pledge class, and once again see most of the members from the house. Coming together I could not of asked for a better pledge class, with members a diverse as their background with majors from Mechanical Engineering to Undeclared to Public Relations, it really reflects who we are as a group.

Steak dinner came and went and I was able to finish all my class work and required readings and even get a head start on some papers that are up and coming. For the first week my I received all copies of my NY Times and none were stolen so that was a huge plus, so I can't say that anything truly bad is happening in my life thus far.

The weekend was relaxed and laid back, and involved going to the gym, doing laundry, watching movies, and just hanging out. I had to pick up my roommate from the Airport but that just involved driving in a circle for about thirty minutes until he was out and had all of his luggage.

On the gaming side of life, with the release of 3.0.9 both the mage class and rogue class took huge hits across the board, no longer able to "gib" someone in a blanket counterspell or good blind, looks like frost mages will be coming back as the dominate spec for PVP mages. The hits the Mutilate were minor for the rogues but still hurt both 2's and 3's comps for mages and rogues, nerfing both RMP and RM. While arcane was the bad mages fail safe, it allowed for counters vs. the deathknight, ret, and hunter classes where standing still can mean death.

We will see how things play out, all I've done recently are BG's and have not played with my partner since the changes rolled across the board, so we will have to wait and see if we can still manage our top tier preformance or if we will be knocked to the ground by pally/dk teams.

Challenges and Opportunities for Bloggers

Bloggers have several opportunities that allow them to become part of the main stream. Due to the number of people who have access to the internet Blogs are becoming the new generation for the public to view messages made by members of the internet community.

While many people simply use blogs as an online diary, it also allows the flow of information to the masses or at least those who view members blogs. Its a great way to stay connected to members of the blogging community and see what is happening in peoples lives, or whats going on around the world.

I feel that blogs are a great way to reach or find people who you might have a common intrest with, and then communicate upon the topic and get a better understanding of how others view the same world around you.

Throughout the semester I will be updating the occurrences of my life, including school, fraternity business (Kappa Sigma), and any extra curricular events I'm apart of.