09 May 2008 No Comments
The Final Finals Week
I can’t believe this is my last finals week I’ll have to endure! Though I didn’t have any final exams to worry about per se, I did need to take care of final projects. Especially the one for my photography class. (See my previous entry for the link to the six photos I chose.)
Getting those prints done for photography class was such a chore. After my training at Apple, I went to Ritz Camera. Because I didn’t want to spend $30 on all six of my photos at Ritz, I had them print one of my photos. Good thing I did that because it turned out that the resolution was too low and it ended up looking pretty crappy. So after I fixed that on my six image files, I went to Wal-Mart the next day. (After all, it’s relatively closer to home and cheaper than Ritz… even though I haven’t been there in ages.) But when I plugged in my thumb drive into their kiosk, it couldn’t read ANY of the photos I wanted to print! So I went back home, frazzled, and changed the files’ format from .tif to .jpg. I went back to Wal-Mart the next day and the kiosk STILL didn’t recognize my photos. Of course at this point, I’m really frazzled. I returned home, saved multiple versions of my pictures, then the next morning, went all the way to Walgreens (there’s only one on the island, but I needed to be in town for class anyway) and had them printed there. The kiosk read ALL of them fine. That morning, I manage to get to my advertising class, the last class of my college career, ten minutes late. Good thing I called my prof earlier.
Lessons learned: have backup plans early (like saving multiple versions of photos)… and Wal-Mart’s photo kiosks suck!
It was also a week of mini-reunions. I reunited with my NSAC team members to present our AIM pitch presentation to our ad professor’s graduate class. It’s been almost a month since we last did it, so we stumbled on some parts, and we did have some trouble getting my PowerBook to show up on the projector at first (as usual), but otherwise, we were far more polished than the last time we did our AIM presentation for that class several months ago. Plus, it was great seeing my teammates again. We went to rRed Elephant afterwards to chat. Laura, who I haven’t seen in a while, also happened to be there, so I got to have a long chat with her, as well, which was awesome.
Yesterday I had lunch with Nat from Olomana Marketing. It was the first time in a long time I got to talk story with her at length. She cut her hair and it looks cute!
Today, my mom and I made the trek to the other side of the island via bus to check out my photography classmates’ work on display at the Hawaii Loa campus. Everyone’s photos were very impressive. I wish I had done a bit more Photoshop experimentation like how a few of my classmates did, but at the same time, I felt that the images I chose didn’t really warrant it.