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Today I had a meeting with Indira Nair, the Vice Provost of Education at CMU. I’m not sure what exactly a Vice Provost does, but in this case it’s not important. I’d taken some time to talk to Dr. Nair after the class she gave a guest lecture in, and subsequently followed up with an [...]

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I think I can say that I’ve finally reached a turning point in my education. I realized this during a talk in my Privilege, Responsibility and Community course, given by CMU’s Vice Provost of Education, Dr. Indira Nair. The talk was on the ideas of Identity and Authenticity, discussing the identity the university tries to [...]

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An interesting phenomenon discussed a bit ago in my Cognitive Development course was the importance of self-based locomotion in spatial knowledge and awareness. For that course, I’ve actually just received the go-ahead from the professor, Dr. Bob Siegler, to write my final paper on this specific area of children’s development.
A great experiment that illuminates the [...]

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Occasionally I’m called out for wearing stripes too often, but what can I say, they’re so… visually interesting. And that’s not just me talking here, that’s cold, hard science. As I’ve discovered in my Cognitive Development course with Dr. Bob Siegler, the fact that stripes are more visually interesting makes all the difference when [...]

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Earlier today Dr. Paul Thagard gave a talk as part of Carnegie Mellon’s humanities lecture series, titled “Minds, Mechanics, and Computers.” My Philosophy of Mind class professor, Dr. Andy Norman, told our class about the talk yesterday, and seeing as it was pertinent to this class and my Cog Sci major I figured I’d attend. [...]

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The most personal communication:
Last semester in my Interaction and Visual Interface Design course our professor, Shelley Evenson, made a remark about text messaging that’s stuck with me ever since. She told us, “I think that text messaging is the most personal form of communication.” What? Texting? You mean when my phone [...]

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