Hello World!

My name is Christina McDonald and I am currently a sophomore at Meredith College. After the summer, however, I should have enough credits to be considered a junior even if I’m not yet close to finishing my degree. I am a Computer Science major with minors in Public History, Professional Writing and Presentation Media, and Arts Management. 

My favorite things to do are to play video games, read, and make things on a computer from websites to little games. My life-goal is to digitize old documents to allow access to old documents by as many individuals as possible through the internet. I understand that if as a programmer I end up working with a graphic designer our communication will be much more effective if we are able to understand each other. Technology is something everyone uses every day and having tried to explain things to laypeople I understand the difficulties that can arise when people think RAM is a type of bovid. In short, I am taking this class to improve work I do individuality as well as increase my understanding of website aesthetics. 

What I am most looking forward to is the chance to learn how to improve my personal projects as well as help find homes for warm-fuzzies. I am sometimes afraid that I am out-of-my-league in this class, being a computer science major surrounded by artists. I also have a small phobia of dogs so this class is going to force me to work through some of my fears. Luckily my boyfriend has introduced me to some very nice (and very big!) dogs that have calmed me down around canines quite a bit.

I took two courses online during high school, one was an English class with awful participation from my fellow students and the other was a very remedial math course to fulfill graduation requirements. My expectations of this class are a world away from the four hours I spent finishing the math course. I am aware this class is going to require a lot of work every day which will help keep us on track. I appreciate the flexibility of the course in that I can do creative work late at night when I am at my best. I imagine this course is going to be VERY time consuming as it is an art course taught in just six weeks!

This is what my boyfriend thinks I'll look like in the coming zombie apocalypse.

You can visit this link to create your own zombie self.

 

 This is a picture of me also taken by my boyfriend after he made me his duct tape princess. Ah, geek love - so few will ever understand it. The photograph's resolution is 72ppi, and it has been cropped from its original size as this was taken in a convenience store and I don't desire to be pictured with alcohol and tobacco advertisements.

This a-DAW-able creature is my cat, Meowska. She came to us about two years ago from a neglectful household. She has only two teeth (both in the front on her bottom jaw) yet she is still capable of waking us two or more hours early because it's time for breakfast.