2007-12-09T03:59:00+07:00 Raffles Design Institute, part 1
The interview
I got to Raffles Edu Corp's place (offices/school/HQ/whatever) in Hanoi this morning, for an entry interview. The guys set out two objectives for the interview:
See if I'm fit for the school
See if the school fits me
They asked me why I wanted to go there. I said my sister wanted me to. Before that I told them of my last 2.5 years, so they told me to find something I really wanted to do (a.k.a passion). The thing is, they told me to find/express/display/I-don't-quite-remember gratitude to what I am having, the choices that I am able to make. Too bad that I have explicitly excluded that from me.
The Admission Officer then talked to me while the other guy talked to my other sister (sorry, no idea what is your Yahoo! 360° profile). He said the same old thing that I am special, seeing from my calmness and depth. In my words, those are "silence" and "pretending", though I forgot to tell him that because he had told me to just listen, after I tried to switch "calm" to "karma" (see the fourth definition from gcide). He then showed me the Summer 2007 graduates' portfolios. I dismissed the fashion part with the idea that those customes are an end, that they never leave the catwalk (I didn't mention that I have no feeling towards clothings at all). Then I told him why I chose the Visual Communication course, because it has a Typography subject. And that reason is because of this quote from Understanding Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman:
The trouble is, web design, although it employs elements of graphic design and illustration, does not map to them. If one must compare the web to other media, typography would be a better choice. For a web design, like a typeface, is an environment for someone else’s expression.
I remembered the wrong article when telling him that, so there was this "canonical web design" in my sentence. Not too far off the mark, /me thinks.
What wasn't said
I forgot to tell them that the Design Institute's first webpage sucks, as in doesn't validate (the main content's result) and isn't accessible (sorry, no idea how to get permanent link for WebXAct's result, mind you to go there and put in "http://raffles-design-institute.edu.sg/" and "http://raffles-design-institute.edu.sg/f_stage.htm", see the Accessibility tab), opens a pop-up, using frames and tables just for presentational purpose. Did a graduate do the webpage?
Moral disclaimer: I am ranting, not redoing the site, nor mailing the webmaster. More ranting: the WebXACT pages don't do better, really, try turning images off.
I also forgot to ask who holds the copyright of students' works.
because today, "to not do it" is more positive than "do it"
Minor points, I know.
There's a zip'd MP4 of the video, weighted at 58MB. I always get downloadable files, much more replay-able.
Upcoming test
From the look of it, Raffles Design Institute wouldn't accept me in. But I am gonna attend the schooling aid test [foot-note] on the second next Saturday at their HQ. Ms. Lan Anh, the receiptionist whom a guard appointed for me, offered to find test materials to help me preparing. I declined (without saying thanks). I want to see if I've got some talent other than taking multiple-choice tests.
Today there were two girls doing a test with ESL in its name. I wonder if this place has an intake every two weeks.
And my IELTS score expired, on that schooling aid test date it will be 2.25-year old.
There are EUnit, ErUnit, and ErlUnit. Last update of each one is respectively (svn info erunit), 2007-11-03 17:36:56 (UTC?) (2.0 beta 1), and the date of that introductory post, 2007-04-03 10:36PM (no idea where he/she was blogging from back then to infer timezone).
I'll go with the most documented one.
Offtopic: the Current Music video is a derivative work, not just copying.
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