GOODBYE

This came sooner than expected, even for me 😮

I can’t believe it was almost 2 years ago when I first had my Zoom interview with Maddy, Valerie, and Suloni. I still remember Maddy asking about my Zoom background, which was a poppy field in central Asia.

When I started at LAITS, I’d had a lot of odd jobs (food service, babysitting, assisting an airplane mechanic, etc) but the idea of a “real” job in an office seemed daunting.  Now, I’m starting a job on the Apple campus! (For a contractor… and the pay is very entry-level… but still!) I think these 2 years of experience have been the most valuable I’ve ever gotten from a job. I’ll miss everyone from LAITS so much, but the plus side of living in Austin is that I’ll probably see a lot of ya’ll around at places like Hole in the Wall.

Carrie: We didn’t get to talk that much, but it was really fun going to Jester with you and Thang on presentation week. Hope you’re having fun in China right now and have a good fall semester when you’re back!

Isaiah: It’s been fun for the few weeks we overlapped. I hope you enjoy the design team and keep up the blog title format FOREVER! I am so curious what kind of movie titles you’ll get to in the double digits.

Leilani: Did I ever mention I showed your blog avatar to a friend of mine just because I was so impressed how “swaggy” it was hahahaha. I will miss your sense of humor and your cool hats.

Lorena: Hopefully you’ll be back in the fall to see this! I still remember supervising you on CoLA Web Refresh and drawing the comics together. If not, have fun at your internship. Also have fun in LA!

Luisa: I was about to say I’ll probably see you around thrifting, but then I remembered you’re gonna be in Illinois. Congrats on your grad school gig

Marissa: We didn’t get to talk that much, but I was always really impressed by your designs. Keep it up!

Thang: It was so fun helping you onboard and make that meme together. We haven’t seen each other as much because you’re doing webdev stuff, but I hope you’re having fun in Vietnam and have a great fall.

Valerie: I’m so grateful for your part in getting me this job, and you’ve been a great manager for these 2 years, in terms of both accommodating my schedule AND playing cool lofi nintendo/ghibli music. I look forward to seeing where you go from here and seeing more of your art in the future.

And most of all I will miss these SLACK EMOJIS (jk)

Best of luck everyone!

 

Week LXXX

We made it all the way to 80!

Course Graphics: E 316M: Masterworks of American Literature

This past week I mostly worked on UTFC bookkeeping and offboarding bookkeeping, so the last thing of note to put on my blog is a routine course graphics update, adding instructor to this title slide.

How long ago was it now that I became the “course graphics guy”? A year and a half? Wow.

Goodbye post coming soon.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2023/06/20/49201-2/

Week 9

the ninth gate

  JUNE 13th – 15th

 

I completed a WordPress development project, which involved installing and activating the Main WP plugin for the university’s websites. I also updated, deactivated, and deleted WordPress plugins for the websites. I used WordPress Admin Dashboard, Main WP plugin, and WP-CLI commands in Terminal. I documented my progress in an Airtable spreadsheet.

 

I also began building a tic-tac-toe game using html, css, and javascript using a source-code editor, Visual Studio Code.

 

Tic Tac Toe Game ( In Progress )

 

 

One of the resources I referenced used a different scripting language. They built their game using Typescript, so I had to re-interpret their code and adapt it for my scripting language, Javascript. It was challenging to adjust and follow along while learning something new, however, I learned some new principles along the way. This obstacle allowed me to better understand the fundamental syntax of different scripting languages.

Style A & B Studio Graphics

Project: Intro Training Style A&B Course Graphics
Notes: STA director, Valerie Tran, asked me to brush up on this training again since it’s been a while since I’ve done course graphics. The main goal was to familiarize myself with the names of the assets and the style types! I took a silly approach and used a example class from the template and replaced the professor with a minion. This time around I did Studio Graphics Style B.

 

STA Blog Banner Edits

Project: STA Blog Banner Update
Notes: For this task, I was asked to place Isaiah’s portrait on the Blog Banner. STAs get the opportunity to create a character that best represents them so it’s interesting to go behind the scenes to and see everyone’s avatar up close! I got to edit the Adobe Illustrator file and mess around with the placement of everyone’s avatar. It was a cool learning experience being able to edit the main site and edit the homepage to our STA blog.

Week LXXIX

As of yesterday, my two weeks notice is formally in ;__;

I’ve accepted a contract tech job starting sometime in the next few weeks, even though I would have preferred a mellow summer and staying at LAITS til August, I guess I underestimated how fast hiring can move. I’ll be writing my goodbyes next week, but in the meantime…

French Textbook

The only thing I’ve worked on since last meeting, and perhaps my last project at LAITS.

 

We’re using the (now renamed) spreadsheet I made to track the sources of various images, and finally confirming all the replacement images with Yazz.

I guess I figured my very last project would be something more full-circle, but it’s another routine and inconclusive spreadsheet. Hm, I guess that makes sense in its own way.