I have this English class, which I have been dreading more than anything else, and have been putting off since I first came to BYU. Since I am in my last semester, I suppose I didn't have the option to put it off any longer. We get assigned to a group and then work with them on big projects all throughout the semester. I was kind of dreading it, but I assumed it would be helpful. Three of us are Exercise Science majors, one is a Tourism major. I also didn't see how that was going to pan out. Our first assignment was to create a poster or some kind of technical description. We decided on Malaria. Writing all the medical descriptions of the symptoms and everything was fine, not hard at all. Then we had to design this poster. We didn't even know what program to use. It was seriously like watching a bunch of five year olds try to do calculus. We ended up not even bolding our title because we couldn't figure out how to do it in the stupid program we were using. Almost two hours later we pretty much just gave up and printed it. After the peer review in class today we received comments like, "Why does your poster about Malaria: A Deadly Disease look happy and like a Monopoly Board?" and "Why isn't anything bolded?" and "Why aren't your colored boxes even lined up?" The answer, classmates, is because we are all SCIENCE people. We cannot wrap our minds around design, or asthetics, or anything made by Apple. Numbers, body parts, science. That's all we've got! So despite the serious kick to our egos, I revamped it today and hopefully we won't fail now due to a lack of creativity.
(Special thanks to the kind soul in my english class who introduced me to a much simpler, pc program)
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