Weekly Blog #8: Sunburn

We went to the annual highschool's rally last Friday and I am currently terribly sunburned and without voice for screaming so much. I am also doing this early for one of the first times since I am avoiding finishing my thesis (update: I got distracted . Anyway, here's the content of today's blog, enjoy :)

What we saw last week on SMRT 140

• TMI essay
• Are computers intelligent or not?
• Chinese Room video I didn't understand
• Kino 

We always write essays for these courses, and I always complain about it. However, this time SMRT 140 was nosy af and wanted us to write about very deep topics: your most memorable experience from highschool, when did you realized you were in love and your first heartbreak. WHAT THE HELLLLLL. I don't want people to know about that stuff.

We read about whether computers are actually intelligent or not. It got me thinking because they said that computers are not actually intelligent, but they simulate intelligence. I guess that's true because humans are the ones that create them and make them copy us. Amazing.

On media, we watched a really short video about a room with a guy and some chinese message. I didn't actually understand it, but it supposedly meant that that's how a computer works. The graphics were cool though.

We went to kino AND I AM ROASTED AF. It hurted really bad on the weekend and it was Cruz's XV and I looked really bad, what a shame. WhATevEEEerrrR

Word of the week is:

i don't remember any words

I've had a rough week and I feel really crappy. Wish me luck to survive this week. I love you miss

Weekly Blog #7: not a good day

Hello, I've been feeling down lately and on top of that, we have to do this poop blog. I almost forgot about it, but here I am on the verge of suiciding and still being responisble. wuhuu

What we saw last week on SMRT 140

• Making a videogame
• Smart af programer kid
• Codecademy
• Awwwwwwwww
• my own personal diary

We watched a video of an easy going dude that talked about how he created a site with MIT to give the opportunity of programming to kids. As an activity, we had to make a code on a kids page. It was supposed to be easy, but it turned out to be very hard for me. In the end, I made a videogame of an hippo in a desert eating oranges. Amazing.

We also watched a TedTalk of a prodigy kid that started coding when he was just a little kid. Then he continued develping apps for the iphone and is currently working on making apps for the ipad. He was so nice and cute, I hope he becomes more successful.

They've currently made us make courses to learn the basics of coding. At the begenning I didn't like, but now I truly enjoy. I made my name with little color balls that move with the coursor, a webpage about bears and another one of why Paola sucks. It was pretty cool.

We practiced the pronunciation of /aw/ with the Indian lady. It is very fun watching each other repeating everything like kindergardens. 

I've been feeling pretty down lately, and I've been dragginf people with me. I am sorry if I'm moody, I'm working on it. I love you c:

Weekly Blog #6: even more stuff to do

I'm doing this late again as expected, so hi. If I thought I had a lot of stuff to do the previous week, this week I'm dying. However, I still have the energy to do this (barely and as an obligation because I have to do it). Here's what we saw last week:

What we saw last week on SMRT 140

• Passwords
• Reddit
• Online identity

The most interesting thing that we saw was a media about passwords. It was this geeky lady that kept telling us how there's a science and logic behind every password. She said that hackers had tecniques because there are some passwords that a lot of people had, such as: princess, password, monkey, 1234567, etc. It made me think that I am very easy to hack, and it was overall a good talk.

Moreover, we had to make a 500 word text in a forum so we could all participate on the conversation and vote on each other. We decided to do this on reddit because we thought it was funny. It was really confusing though and it didn't let us commet that much, people needed to wait a long time to submit something. The memes paola uploaded were cool.

Lastly, we started an activity in which we saw new voabulary and it warned us about sharing our true identity on the internet. It made me worry about my profiles but I am still leaving them that way.

The word of the week is:

Megalithic

Sorry for not putting gifs, I will be better next week. Thanks for the realtionship advice! It worked. I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Weekly Blog #5: a lot of stuff to do

Yesterday, I went to my dad's pueblo which is called Ortiz (it's really ulgy though) and as I am a procrastinator I waited till the last minute to do it, so here I am again. Welcome.

What we saw last week on SMRT 140

• How digital media is transforming product design
• Pronunciation
• Hardcore noting
• Screencasting

What we drained our time with the most was with a reading as extensive as my hate for this blog about product design and some other boring topics. However, I did found some of the examples that they provided really interesting like the jacket that zips itself to force intimacy between two individuals. Amazing.

We also had some exercises about pronuciation and all that jazz, it's really funny to watch everybody trying to pronounce those words.

On the other side, we had to make some hardcore noting from the super long reading that I mentioned previously. I almost died trying to catch up with everything. When I was finished taking notes on page 1, we were already on the 6th page. It was a disaster but I loved the adrenaline.

As you should already know, I did the screencasting on the morning because I arrived late to Hermosillo and I was pretty exhausted. It was cool though.

Word of the week:

HCI

THANK YOU MISSSS I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

* This is me trying to drive in my dad's ugly pueblo

Wekly Blog #4: I'm fine I guess

We haven't done anything that trascendental since we've just finished our exams; however, we've started a new unit that seems interesting so here's what we saw last week (and this Monday).

What we saw last week on SMRT 140

• A Darwinian theory of beauty
• Reading

Last week we started media 3-1, in which we only did the vocabulary part because time is never enough. I've seen that vocabulary is getting harder in a way. Or at least for me, I remember in last units I knew some of the words and now I don't. I guess this is good because I'm learning new stuff. Amazing.

This media was actually really interesting. It talked about how we normally think that beauty is very dependent on the culture that you are port of, but it also says that there are some things that are found beautiful universally and that's because of our evolution. We are always linked to our past, and things that had to do with our origins, are found beautiful in all the world. Pretty cool right?

We started a new reading that we haven't actually read, but seems interesting. The vocabulary looks hard though; looking forward into reading it.

That's it, I feel like we are advancing really fast, and I am not ready for university. I feel like my future is going to be crappy and I am going to die of stress. Also, I want to go out on the weekend and being grounded sucks. 

The word of the week is:

KISMET

tHANK YOU LOVE YOU MISS K, GET WELL SOON I MISS YOUUUUUUUU

Weekly Blog #3: MENTAL BREAKDOWN (again)

It's been great, we've been chilling because we nailed it when we chose our special purpose unit. However, we did work in the week and this is what we saw:

What we saw last week on SMRT 140

• Boring as hell reading
• Great memes
• Meltdown

We had to make an activity called Makes a Meme Instead, and it was a super long reading about how memes evolved and ther origin and all that jazz. We stumbled upon some internet jewels like "bert is evil", but it was somewhat boring because it was too long and we had to listen to each other reading, so it was not fun. :(

Miss K left us abandoned because she went to see her boyfriend at a concert. Miss Cristina took care of us and we listened to Jenni Rivera while doing some dank memes. Amazing

I'd also liked to thank Miss K and my classmates from SMRT140 for my near to exploding nervous breakdwon because of our thesis. We had no idea what to do but we managed to do it on time and everything wen relatively okay.

The word of the week is:

aesthetics

Love you Miss K, hope you had a blast at Bruno's.

Weekly Blog #2: MACHINES ARE CONTROLLING US

Hello, today I am really content with myself because it is early and I already did my homework and two projects, which is a new record for me. Anyways I am doing this blog entry correctly this time, so this is what we saw last week.

What I learned last week on SMRT 140

• Boring af video
• German Technician memes
• Screencasting #2
• Memes and Temes

One of the videos that was on media this week was called Dan Dennet: Dangerous Memes, and it was SOOOO BORING OMG. Dennet was an old man and his way of speaking was incredibly boring, I think it was due to the fact that his talk was targeted to other audicience. However, on resume he said that memes were threatening our culture and that's why they are dangerous.

We also saw a Buzzfeed article which was full with memes  of a  German university, where an authomatic door was broken and the  technician didn't fix it, so people overfloaded the door with memes, kinda protesting about the problem. This level of pettinnes actually made the problem to be solved, it was still very funny.

Something that we did that got me thinking the whole week was watching a video of memes again but we a twist. This lady basically said that machines are controlling and that we needed to take care because they will rule the world and that's why aliens ahaven't contacted us, or something like that. Anyways, it was very interesting, high, and I like it a lot.

Lastly, we made a screencasting about a critic review of something that we watched or read during the week. I made it about machines controlling us, it was okay I guess and I made it on time.

The word of the week is:

Memetics

Thanks for reading me, love you lots byeEE.