On Jun 20, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Christine Boese wrote:
#1 & #2: Networking, and name schools. I come from humanities, and never had the kind of engineering connections I craved, because in my undergrad world, engineers and CS folks just didn't talk with humanities people. You gotta get to the grad level, where they foster cross-discipline collaborations, or odd multi-disciplinary people like me show up and seek out those conversations.
Very well put! :-) Meant to imply that in the previous post clarifying "connections", in addition to the alumni kinship/shared experience aspect... Working on a project collaboratively in an intense studio context with folks from different backgrounds is profound, illuminating, inspiring, and yes often frustrating, but again it's all for learning! And those mind-blowing moments of perspective shifting (or metanoia ;-)
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