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College Life

こんにちは。
最近は試験や課題、ジャパンフェアに向けた準備など充実した日々を過ごしていました。
試験が一息ついたので、日記更新♪


いい気分です☆
最近のバンクーバーは天気も良くて、過ごしやすい毎日。


学校生活も順調で、Teacher AssistantとAssignments Markingのパートタイムも今学期から始めました。
ボランティア活動も相変わらず楽しめてて、毎回色んな人と関わりながら物事を進めてゆく楽しみを味わってる。




今取っているクラスの一つにHuman-Computer Intractionというデザインのクラスを取っているんだけど、それがまた面白い。

そのテキストの一つがこの「Designing Visual Interfaces」

Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques

Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques


デザイン、デザイン、デザインととことんデザインについて書き綴った本で、Softwareに関わる人だけではなく、物作りに関わる人や、なんらかの形にしてコミュニケーションを取らなければならない分野に携わる人にはおススメな本。

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add values and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. - Paul Rand

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery

What is simple should be treated simply, what is difficult should be reduced to the simplest terms. - Josef Muller-Brockmann

最近読んで印象に残った記事もご紹介しちゃいます
（引用ばっかですいません。。。）

the world keeps minting idealistic young people who are not waiting for governments to act, but are starting their own projects and driving innovation.

If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg.

Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals.

I have only one purpose in writing novels, that is to draw out the unique divinity of the individual. To gratify uniqueness. To keep the system from tangling us. So - I write stories of life, love. Make people laugh and cry.

We are all human beings, individuals, fragile eggs. We have no hope against the wall: it's too high, too dark, too cold. To fight the wall, we must join our souls together for warmth, strength. We must not let the system control us - create who we are. It is we who created the system.

I am grateful to you, Israelis, for reading my books. I hope we are sharing something meaningful. You are the biggest reason why I am here.

Twitterを中心としてある “now” search engineについて

住民が積極的に自治体運営に取り組む新しい活動の紹介。道路だって住民が作っちゃいます。

The lion's share of that work will not be about profit, or even business. It will be about people's participation in what really matters, because they get satisfaction from being part of the solution.


こんな感じで勉強の合間にも、色んなところからいい影響を受けています。
他にも面白い記事とかありましたら是非教えてください♪


BTW, 最近Twitterも始めたんで、もしやってる人いましたらAddしてください。


今学期ももう残り半分。
これからです。


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