I have a confession to make
Actually I have more than one confession, there are several. I’m going to tell all my dirty secrets, no holding back. I was so overwhelmed after monday nights class. First a blog, now a domain name and website? After I got home I spent the rest of the night in tears thinking if only I had been born in a simpler time or maybe I should just move to the country, perhaps grow some corn and tomatoes. I kept thinking o.k. this quarter will be over soon and then I can forget about my blog and website and pretend it never existed. Why did I have these feelings when others in the class seemed excited?
It’s always easy and fun to blame parents so I will start there. My dad purchased the first family computer in ‘99 and never did we have internet. In high school I would use the computer to type papers, except I couldn’t type so my mom typed my papers for me. I remember the feeling I would get when the teacher would say “three pages TYPED” it was like the end of the world for me. So I would handwrite my papers and my mom would type them, luckily I got paired with the best roomate ever in college so when it came time to write a paper I would handwrite it and she would type it on her computer (I didn’t own one until I came to PC). I guess somewhere between then and now I learned how to type. It’s funny or maybe disturbing to think back and remember how terrified I was to type, how I wanted to just ignore it in hopes that it would go away, but it never went away. It is a part of me now, I enjoy it, it feels so good to be able to do it myself. So I’m thinking this is how I will feel about my website, I will enjoy it and it will be a part of me for the rest of my life, I’m actually getting a little excited now. Being a student at PC has opened my eyes to so many new things, I am learning so much and for that I am so very grateful.
Wow . . . It is really beautiful how openly you confessed your fears of the media arch. stuff we are dealing with. Truthfully I have come from a limited computer-experience life too and the idea of all this shit scares me as well!
For us all to know they way each other feel can help us pull each other up in the learning process. And please remember the time I wasn’t sure how to do something in photoshop and you quickly and effortlessly told me what to do . . .
xo!
Posted 2 years, 6 months agohey dry those eyes
no need to fret your not alone. Talk with Jessica. She set up her site and got it moving. — though she too had some challanges. Perhaps just look at doing it all at Dreamhost. That way you can register a domain and get hosting in one place (for about 9 bucks a month total)
Also as your thinking of names post them on the f33db2ck forum.
let me know if i can help. your doing great!
Posted 2 years, 6 months agoI’m so glad there are people as honest as you at PC, and with such a background – how dull it would be if we were all mac geniuses! (and i don’t even have a fruit computer, so you’re a step ahead of me). It’s also a reminder that we shouldn’t take it for granted that eveyone has the same knowledge – it will help us deal with people around us and all over the world who are at all different levels.
Posted 2 years, 6 months agobe glad you have limited computer experience. that way you’re not tainted. that way your ideas will come from your head and the things around you rather than a machine. try to look at it that way. in undergrad, i studied advertising and design and our head professor didn’t know the computer at all. so he didn’t care that we did. he didn’t care what we could do in photoshop or illustrator. he only cared that we broke the rules one hundred different ways. he only cared that we thought with our heads. that’s how i began learning.
by the time i arrived at pc, i had been out of school for three years and had forgotten the limited mac knowledge i had acquired in college. i did more than fine. and i’ve not once relied on my computer to do what my hands should be doing. it may sound simple, but a lot of people use the mac as a crutch. it’s just another tool. no better or worse than a pen or a pencil or a tube of paint.
sorry to drag this out, i just wanted to let you know what i thought in hopes that it might help you feel differently and less inadequate.
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago