Starting salaries for new grads

Even though the economy is getting better, salaries for new grads remain the same.

It's hard for them to make a living with 30k.

Sketchup To Garry's mod project

So the idea of this project was to take models made in sketchup and put them into garrys mod. The thought behind this is that we want to take our 3D creations and insert them in an inhabitable virtual space. In a sense, taking back the game space for creative expression. The major problem with this was that in order to make a 3D model from sketchup, it must be saved as a .vmf, which does not allow for "convex geometries", essentially anything that is not a solid three dimensional volume. This really defeats the purpose of going from sketchup, as the complicated models created in sketchup cannot easily be broken down into hammer (which complies the .vmf into a .bsp file)

Sat @ The Tank. Pic 1

I loved this women's performance, mainly because it was so unexpected. That is what i love about art shows in general, the sheer uniqueness you will find. i go to shows in Brooklyn often and appreciate the same sort of "out of the box" performance. Her performance wasn't "safe" or reserved by any means ... and i love that :)

roth regatta

Last Friday was the annual Roth Pond Regatta at Stony brook in the roth quad like the name suggests. This is my 4th year at Stony brook and my 3rd year attending the regatta. (Wasnt much of school spirited person my first year) But this year, its different. Instead of just watching the boat race like i usually do, i have participated in the festivities this year.

In collaboration with the advising center, we have built a pretty nice boat for the regatta. It was definitely one of the more realistic looking boats out there. It was of very high quality and has a lot of thing anchoring it adding to the sturdiness. We actually spent a few hundred dollars on supplies for the boat. (maybe a bit over the top but its all for fun) I would say that we spent about a month-ish building the boat. We put in a few hours every week until the day of the race where the final construction was done.

Then came the big day last Friday. I was part of the "land crew". Basically, it was my job to help get the boat in the water and give it a good push off. I think i did a pretty good job if I do say so myself. Our team came in 3rd place in the yacht class, which was pretty good since there were 48 boats competing. It was a great way to end the year. It was just fun to build the boat and compete, but getting 3rd place is like icing on the cake.

Sketchup more

Another new one