Thursday, July 24, 2003
Painfully Excited
I don’t want to play God or make designer super people, or advertise to someone through their pants.
I’m really excited because I’m moving on my Trinity application. I was looking at the ongoing projects of some of the present students. It’s a little intimidating because most are such beautiful artists, and photographers. I am confident that my programming experience together with my imagination for media I could do some great things too. Just to be in that environment again! And moving to Dublin!
They only take 30 people a year!! yow… Deep breath. stupid grin, distraction!!
The program is delving more into wearable tech. I would love to ultimately develop products that would assist vision impaired and hearing impaired. Actually that Taekwon Do accident I had makes me want to design wearable items for physically challenged too, for temporary or long term use. It’s got to be possible.
Many people in my family have a really hard time hearing and rely on devices. My mom almost went completely blind last year due to two types of eye disease she has. I am so grateful that with crazy luck and an amazing doctor, her sight was saved. I’ve never felt so much like there was an earthquake ripping up my entire world. There’s so much more to sight than just getting around, what would her quality of life become?
I was a psyc major for most of my college career, and got turned off the field because it’s when the talk shows really got big and it seemed like everyone was feeling sorry for themselves. But what interested me most was the human brain itself. If I’d not gone over to my life-love of writing (heh, what! you can’t tell?) I would have done whatever field allowed me to explore the physiology of the brain, its electrical currents, how sense, learning and experiencing happens.
I don’t want to play God or make designer super people, or advertise to someone through their pants. I want to try to make life better for those with broken bones, MS, the blind, deaf, mute or those who must navigate the world with much less than is normal.
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