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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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One of the cool blogs I keep up with is Hitwise Analyst Weblogs. It’s basically a collection of their analysts’ blogworthy insights. Some of the results that come out of investigating search data and web habits turn out to be pretty neat, and are often ways of pointing out trends that would be otherwise difficult […]

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For some reason, design solutions to the plant-water problem keep popping up, but you think that by now people could remember to check if their dying green friends were a bit thirsty.
Yep, the options are ever increasing, as now you can stick an LED into your plants and it’ll flash when the h2o becomes scare […]

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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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