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Thorough Rebranding

by Serena Wu on March 1, 2010 · Comments

For the last few weeks, I’ve spent quite some time rebranding myself…I mean have you ever googled your name? Here are the first page results for “serena wu”, despite there being 138 other me’s on Facebook:

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Better Days in the Bay

by Serena Wu on October 26, 2009 · Comments

The title is a reference to one of my favorite songs by the Goo Goo Dolls— the irony is that “Better Days” came out way after their top-ten hits like “Iris”, “Slide”, “Black Balloon”; the justification is that the song is [possibly] a reference to that earlier time period in their musical career. I’m talking [...]

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Domestically Taming the Wild

by Serena Wu on September 27, 2009 · Comments

Since I’ve been back from Asia, I’ve been searching for a suitable entry-level design job (or lack thereof) without much success (why architecture, why??) and thus have settled for a less-than-thrilling life of domesticity, entailing fixing leaky shower heads, vacuuming carpeted stairs, and cooking dishes that even the dog won’t eat.
I once envied Jordan Reid, [...]

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I just spent the last eleven hours (straight) completely rebuilding a poorly-coded website from new blank html files and css stylesheets. Since this was volunteer work rather than a paid project, I figured I would document it as a learning experience and perhaps use it for future reference.
Here’s what was wrong with the original design:

The [...]

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Job Searching in 2009

by Serena Wu on February 17, 2009 · Comments

I know, what a pain right? I spent nearly four hours on Design Directory the other day surfing everything from product design to architecture to graphic design firms in four different cities in the Bay. Deciding to graduate early could’ve been a poor decision after all, but I will just hustle…in style.
A few people in [...]

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