Class Takeaway 10/7

So this is what I learned during that class. Now it was a little hard to jot it all down while it was being said, but I got the gist of most of it. My notes weren't meant to piss anyone off, but now my shorthand was horrible, and I might have got some of this info wrong.


Thomas Ghostbusters Conway JR "Tommy" construction at marksmen has had influence on his art started college in 2003. Strait A's not good at grammar doesn't speak other languages. Ditched Biology for new media. Loves video games. Sister helped him he back into college for new media, but cousin got him interested and prompted him to be happy which led to confidence. Dated a girl in high school but lasted less than a month and only got a hug. Built his ghostbusters rig from his nostalgia for the movies and built his nephew an Ironman costume. Introverted but going for confidence and a pair too! Word: HONEST

Ross jasper band greatest character flaw is lack of motivation and procrastinates. Has a great family and friends for his safety net to fall. Doesn't believe in karma but wants to make things right and pay back all of his family and friends. Word: MODEST/INDECISIVE

Jose Vidal legends of orchid times? Is a gamer since he can remember on NES. Wouldn't be who he was without video games. Loves puzzles and plays on hardest levels without cheating! Wants to gain skill in Media Arts to make a career. Is afraid to cut back on video games to be in the world. Word: POLITE

David argil sweater James Perry cartoonist and screenwriter. 6 feet tall, 190lbs with green eyes. Loves artwork and a libertarian conservative Christian with non denominal. Self analysis and improvement are key in his life. Was thrown into being an extrovert by his friend Matt Gamble. Is becoming more dissident with christianities problems and how people see them. Doesn't mind taking the opposite course for discussions.bow and arrow pictures on Facebook. Participated in a 24 hour comic Word: EVEN-TEMPERED/ARGUMENTATIVE

Brittany May very introverted. Hates this kind of exercise. Started at Purdue to do computer graphics. Hated all the prerequisites at Purdue and by 3rd year lost all interest in class. Purdue dropped her and hated to tell her parents about the shame she felt since they were paying for everything. Went to Ivy Tech and worked at Medical records for a hospital. Pissed that her previous Purdue work wouldn't count because she was going for a degree from IU. She's an artist who draws. Has a rage monster just below the skin with a short fuse, but doesn't last long. During a photoshop image broke her computer, it was crashing. Slammed the lid down and drop kicked her computer. Word: IMPULSIVE

Ying is introverted from the middlepart of China. 3rd year in USA and will graduate from 3D, but started Human Resources. Parents moved a lot and she changed a lot of schools, so she didn't really have a whole lot of friends, and she decided to study abroad. Does an exchange writing program. Word: QUITE

Travis did high school musicals. Singing, acting, animation. Born in Riverside CA. Moved here when he was two. Graduated from Cascade high School. His senior year was rough with his grandfather and sister had cancer. Parents divorced, he came out this past summer. Last 4 years have been good but rough. Word: CREATIVE

Brooke Higdon, simplistic personality who needs rules and creativeness. Parents were an artist and a cop. Pre-med education, radiology tech and a bunch of other jobs, but will do new media. Word: HYPER-RESPONSIBLE.

Ethan, formerly long hair. Hated high school and went to a hyper school to get ged. Did a band and toured and odd jobs. Loves his family. Started a record label. Word: TRYING

Tianyu from Shanghai China and been here 4 years doing 3D modeling. Studied at a college in China for a year, but lost his credits cause it wasn't recognized by IUPUI. Word: FRIENDLY

MATT EATON with no middle name. Scotland would love to live there. Red, 21 , Say Anything is favorite band and experimented with drugs, no cop! Went to Germany Canada and the Bahamas, Media arts in science from video to game design. Word: AMBIVALENT

Amber The "alcoholic" (who jokes!) who battles talking about self. Not serious and is sensitive to people's energy. Majoring in media arts and science and minor in dance. Loves music and dance. audio and 3D are passions. Has a brother and from Greensburg and lives in Southport. Loves Katy Perry. Cat lady at 12. 21st birthday is this month and is a Scorpio who is loyal and dedicated. Financially rock bottomed out at a movie theater. More of an observer than a talker. Doesn't feel like she translates well! Word: MISUNDERSTOOD

Maiyas Isa or Mya who got her nickname from a substitute teacher. She is hyper and talks fast but is introverted. She is an athlete who dresses like a hipster. Loves making videos on YouTube. Loves soccer. Came here in June 2001 from Iraq. Never done a whole lot outside because of her religion. Word: WEIRD

Michele Vaughn is an inspiration who is a philanthropist and activist. She inspires others abilities. She started a BUMONDAY MADEME AND COMPANY breast cancer, acceptance. Helps by nature. Word: LEADER

Steve Malander. Started as an introvert and extrovert. Product of no family. Mother died at a young age and dad didn't recover well. Went to a lot of funerals by the age of 13. Was picked on and decided to be happy just for the sake of it. Became a class clown and started on his road to comedy by doing videos. Did a spiral through school and became a juvenile who got a scholarship to do videos. Likes Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Loves traveling. Did boyscouts and hates misery. Word: MOTIVATED

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Chris loves eating and did golf in high school. Has an older brother who he idolized. Loves nature, bikes and hiking. Likes pot and video games. City of Heroes with a group of friends and family. Loves basketball. Has a nickname if Ernie from someone else. Graduated from Triton Central about 80 people. Specializes in HCI and sketching. Is a Bears fan. Uncle Josh passed away, but pushed him towards religion. A year ago he went to Michigan and saw a great meteor shower. Word: CARING
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Cory (28) is on his second chance after failing out of Purdue. 4-5 years ago started drinking a lot and a close friend died and sent him on his new path. Lots of introspection from that and wants to put it out in the world. Married and great friends. Ready to complete this journey and start the next part! Word: LOYAL

Eric hates talking about himself. Took a year off after high school. Works for family at Swartz Warehouse services and wants to make more out of himself. His interests are video games as an escape. Wanted to make the worlds best video game for himself! Started in accounting and hated it, changed to Media Arts. Loves problem solving. Word: MODEST

Samantha George loves talking about herself. Has a new puppy that hates to walk. Looked like Pat all through high school. Loves storytelling and acting and art. Did winterguard where they were world champs at Warren Central. Ace Ventura with muscles. Likes to pretend to be a model but feels frustrated and happy most of the time. Word: PASSIONATE

Elspeth not Elizabeth but likes Elle. Doing vocal work for video games. Started with cakewalk programming . Loves to write music but did homeschooling. Feels normal compared to most homeschooled people! Done the video game developers conference. Did a league of legends video where she did all the voices and the YouTube video has close to 500,000 hits. Did drum corps. Boyfriend is from gamestop, where they met. Word: UNCONVENTIONAL

Leigh glasses. In her 7th year if college. Did marching band. Taught marching band for a while. Got burnt out on it. On her 23rd job. She works for a great place where she is a human resources manager for a warehouse. Worked for Avon colorguard but director is a dick! Loves to meet hasbeen celebrities. Saw Charlie Sheen in Detroit, but he was booed off stage. Got beat up and robbed after show Charlie Sheen picked her up and took her to the hospital. Doesn't have the filter! Word: CANDID

Chris Fricker not Ernie! Typically a quite guy, but interacts well. Used to be an extrovert but went introverted. Did a lot of sports at Plainfield and did soccer. Doing an intermural soccer team that hasn't won. Loves video games and would like to turn it into a career, playing and or making them. Wasted first year at Ivy Tech. Inbound days at FedEx, trying to find himself. Word: NERDY/LAIDBACK

Kaitlyn made a ballon globe. Works at Victoria Secret and hates retail. Loves marketing and graphic design. Is 22 with an awesome family and friends. Word: DETERMINED

Nick is 35. He started college in 1997. Parents were married at 15 and still married. Is a husband and a father of two kids. Loves beer. Makes a lot of it, whether it's research or development of new flavors. Being responsibly about it traveled a lot out of high school. did NC and here. Works at a bar as a bartender. Likes to think if himself as a cross between Kevin Smith and Sam Malone. Word: TYPICAL

Beth. When she was 3 her brother and father died. Mother raised her in a very conservative hostile environment. Decided at 16, to kill herself. Did a normal day, but that day in the mail, she got an acceptance about a story and art in a national public syndication. Obsessed with Stephen King. Always picked on and acted weirder just to fuck with people. High school drop out. Mother made her cloths. Her father was 26 years older than her mom. Packed up everything in a Pontiac Bonniville and dropped off the face of the earth. Got her diploma and went on foodstamps. Went through 5 waitressing jobs in 5 weeks. Got a job at the library that fostered her education. Went to IU East, but wanted to go to Earlham. Got a full ride within a week, started there. Got her degree. Was an art major, failed, worked as a tombstone designer and got ripped off. Almost died, quit job after lunch because of the accident. Gonna get another degree and bail.

Describing Me... Uh... OK?

One wonders how to properly describe themselves... This process is a lot harder than I originally anticipated. I wanted to be honest about all of the bullshit I deal with, but dole out as well. I thought that I would call a couple of friends and ask them who I though, but didn't feel like I could take the true criticism. I thought about doing a Pro/Con list, but about 3 cons in I got pissed and I deleted it all and started over. I could always ask my girlfriend what she thought about me but two things held me back. 1) The fact that she is kind of biased because she is in love with this amazing, masculine, caring, lovable man. 2) We just got into a fight about how irritating I can be with the fact that I am not affectionate or loving enough... Fucking double edged sword!!!

So I decided that it was time for me to get it out in the open and be real with myself. The following took me over two hours to compile this list.

For all intensive purposes, I'm a 34 year old college student with the same issues as my younger counterparts... Money, work, school, women, school, money, work... It's just a vicious cycle of repetitive stupidity.

What I know about myself. I've been at the same job since July 16th, 1997. Just a little over a month after I graduated high school. Now this really wasn't my decision as it was so much of my mothers. It's not like I was a bad student, I ended up finishing school in the middle of my class. I just couldn't entertain the thought of continuing on with my education because I felt so burnt out. I probably would have been a statistic in drinking my way out of college in either my first or second semester.

I'm about 93 credits into my major, but I'm not really sure what my major really is!? I love attending class, mainly because it gets me off the couch on my days off and I'm way to in debt to stop without a degree now! I just know that my job is a really good one with great benefits and hours, but I know that I don't want to do it for the rest of my life. I gotta get out, and it's gotta be soon! I love it just enough to keep me paying the bills, but hate it enough to want to get the hell out of there!

I used to think of myself as a commitment phoebe, but soon realized that was a lie. I have been in 4 serious relationships. One for 5 years, one for 4, one for 8 and my most recent one of just over a year. I don't think that I really ever knew how to date. Don't get me wrong, I did alright with the ladies, but I have always felt that there was something missing with the relationships that I have been in, but just to dumb to get out of them.

I can be a complete asshole in relationships and don't really know why? I, like most guys, am a caring,
loving, attentive boyfriend in the beginning. But there is something always missing. Deep down in my heart I'm a hopeless romantic. I don't mind sitting through "chick flicks" because I'm a movie buff in general, but because it never hurts to learn some new way to love your women. I want the kind of love that Nicholas Sparks writes about. I want to experience "love at first site" and all the benefits that go with it. I want to know, deep down in my heart, that this is the lady that I want to spend the rest of my life with and have babies, or at least enjoy trying to have babies.

So in short: I'm an aging, educating, crabby, funny, irritating, loving asshole with excuses to get through relationships and work, but secretly hate myself for not being ballsy enough to cut and run when warranted. I love movies, music, learning, being a homeowner, women, my friends, family and my dog, but hate being a grown up, paying bills, working, grades, drama, heartbreak, repairing the plumbing in the foundation of my home, cleaning, dishes, broken car's, and lack of sleep due to homework. I want more out of life, love, education, work, but am occasionally to lazy to do anything about it. I need to sack up more in my relationships and life in general, just to be a better man to anyone/everyone I come into contact with. I want a job that doesn't feel like a job, but a place that pays me well to do something fun and interesting. I need a love that feels natural and reciprocated, but is willing to put up with me and call me on my shit!