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Education

What’s In It for Architecture?

by Serena Wu on January 22, 2010 · Comments

The day before I left for New York, I was invited to AIA East Bay’s Emeritus meeting, since they were discussing the needs of under-employed emerging professionals and possibly forming a mentor/workshop program to keep us afloat. “What will happen [to the architecture industry] if three to five years of emerging professionals are gone?” Just [...]

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I kid you not, I spent the last two days nerding it up in Taipei’s National Central Library, flipping though Shih-Jung Tzeng’s Oxford-published PhD thesis, From Honto Jin to Bensheng Ren: The Origin and Development of Taiwanese National Consciousness. Why? The 361-pager studies the diaries of two Taiwanese literary figures, one being my great-grandfather, Wu [...]

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“Fiat Lux?” So Enlighten Me.

by Serena Wu on November 20, 2009 · Comments

What version of the UC Berkeley protests would you like? AP, SFGate, or The Daily Cal?
For those with an aversion to text, here’s raw footage:

and more raw footage…

The catalyst to the havoc? The UC board approved a 32% increase in undergraduate fees yesterday. (Details here.)

(Cal students also want the reinstatement of 38 custodians, but why [...]

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Aquent was tabling at the Creative Confab yesterday, so I grabbed a copy of the AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries in 2008, and there was actually some pretty helpful information inside that I thought I’d share. Here are my favorite essays transcribed just for you:

Trust your instincts
“Before you choose a firm, you’ll want [...]

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The Lost Generation

by Serena Wu on October 12, 2009 · Comments

Remember marking up every single book you didn’t check out from the library for high school AP English? College killed the art of annotating, and social media murdered print. I know people who refuse to pick up a physical magazine these days, so I’m annotating this week’s BusinessWeek cover story for you, because it’s important.
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