The CSB Epxerience: The Third Second First Week

I was planning on writing a piece about my "third-second-first day" as I normally would do from my past entries but considering I only had 2 class on my first day alone with 2 days of no school per week to boot, I decided to just write about the first week alone.

The First Day
For the first time in a long while, I now have evening classes AGAIN! I made a last minute adjustment to my schedule last term before encoding was closed for good and moved my Author1 class from early morning Saturdays to Monday evenings (6-9pm). Before Author1 is Cadvis2 from 2:45 to 5:45.

The good thing with Cadvis2 right now is that I still have Sir Jaime Latumbo (yes, ka-namesake!) as my professor and other than the day, the class is still on the same time and room as it was last term. At least I don't have to make an adjustment to his teachings although one thing remains especially on a class like this is placed on the afternoon for 3 hours: Unintentionally dozing off during discussion but hey, it's still cool!

From Architecture Desktop (Autocad), we moved to a new program called Autodesk 3DS Max. Another new program for me to get over, awww.

As evening kicks in, I had my first..er-night in Author1. Basically, the class is all about the basics of creating programs for CD-ROM's and stuff like that. My prof, Sir Rex Cariaga, is fortunately a cool teacher, and a young CSB grad. So I guess he totally can relate to the hardships of the average ABMMA student (The course is no easy walk in the park FYI).

No new program for us to learn at the meantime but made us design a "root menu" of a DVD using Photoshop. It'll carry on next meeting (in two weeks).

I spent the next two days at home being a bum since I'm still high from termbreak fever, however short they may be. Catching up on my shows online and much needed sleep.

The Second Day
So the timeframe stayed the same as last Monday. But the schedule is somewhat similar to what I used to have the term before: a 2d/Web combo. My Webdev2 class, headed by same as last term prof Ms Kat Santiano, is all about incorporating Flash onto web design.

Good thing, she gave us the opportunity to design our own domains (which we already have from last term) and the end result?: JamesHabitan Online

Three hours later came another 3-hour class, 2danim2. Sir Dayao is the name of the professor and the biggest shock of the day was that there were only 6 of us in his class, at least for the first session alone. Chuck, Jason A. and Sheena are my classmates for 2d2 and we had two others, Russel (classmate from Hartdes2) and someone Sheena knew (I'm really bad at name recognition). Besides the usual orientation, we had the chance to see (in my case: again) documented works of past students. I like the shorts made by Kenny Tai and nelson Caliguia Jr. It was purely awesomeness!

The Third Day
For Friday, I only have one class: Vidprd2. My prof? The ever wacky and funny Sir Dodos FTW!

If the prerequisite was about writing scripts, this class is all about the basics of camera work and executing storytelling through "moving pictures". In other words, film. Met lotsa new and familiar faces. Among my classmates are Edward, Dan, Clarizze and a couple more familiar faces.

The Fourth Day
Saturday. I was a bit late for my first day in 3danim2. Prerequisite subject, 3d1 was a total nightmare and I swore that I have to be picky next time when choosing professors. I need teachers whom we could learn from, not guess on the things he'd be hesitant to repeat in slow motion.

At least, for this term, Sir Hanz is an exception. He's looks more clam and is more than competent to teach his students the basics of Maya. Plus, he taught us our first lesson: "Modeling a Human Anatomy Made Easy". I remember my prof from the prerequisite teaching our class a similar lesson like this but not as simple as what Sir Hanz just taught to me and the rest of the 3danim2 people this afternoon.

I'm gonna be looking forward for this class for sure. Hopefully, I'd be able to reverse the 1.5 grade I got for 3d1. :D

This term ought to be interesting, indeed!