"MY OPINION ISN'T (A) RIGHT" [actually it is]

Yeah Dr. Preston, I did title this post incorrectly, because I disagree! (read on for my rebellious argument)

REFLECTIONS ON WEEK 1

I expected this to be short, but it actually turned into a really long post... so read on for my musings on my illness, whiteness, and the Internet!

VOCABULARY #1

All right, first vocabulary list of the year. To make things more interesting, instead of writing all the vocabulary words in disjointed sentences, I wrote a story about Adventure Time :D

Austen/Montaigne Essay

This is my essay comparing (but not "contrasting" because that's redundant! Whoever knows which teacher I'm referencing gets a cookie) Austen and Montaigne.

1987 AP Exam

I think I did pretty well on this exam; I got 39 right out of 47, which translates to 51 out of 61 (if it was a full test) or 83%.

Subliminal messaging in the UC website!!

.......*gasp*!

My attempt at Fiddleoak-esque

I learned how to image edit in 8th grade, and it's actually come in handy many times. Considering how much of a presence we have on the Internet, being able to turn a bad photo into a good photo is super-helpful. Usually I just do beautification/"natural" image editing to make a photo look better, preferably without anyone knowing it's been edited. Recently I've gotten into more artistic effects, like the glitch-art-style edit I did to my profile picture here.

When I saw Dr. Preston's post about Fiddleoak, I was very interested because of my own experience in image editing. I was amazed and intrigued by his work, and by Fiddleoak himself-- here's a guy about as young as I was when I started image editing, and already his skills are far beyond what I'll probably ever achieve in my lifetime. I was excited at Dr. Preston's suggestion of someone contacting him to open a discussion with us online, but I've never actually tried digital compositing, which I believe is the technical term for what Fiddleoak does (although I could be wrong). I know that often when you try something for the first time, you run into problems that you never would have thought of beforehand; that's why I wanted to at least try it once, even if it turned out horribly.