Almost every Introduction to HCI methods lecture, the professor forgets about her computer\’s screensaver. Unfortunately being me, I am always distracted by anything moving around. One professor\’s screensaver is the default calming MacOSx rainbow screensaver. The other professor\’s screensaver is unfortunately a slideshow of her family. So while she was lecturing about the Artifact models and the sequence models, I paid more attention to pictures of her daughter doing ballet, a picture of her dogs running after a ball, a picture of someone on a donkey at Grand Canyon, a picture of her kids wearing Berkeley sweatshirts…

I wouldn\’t like to be the professor\’s daughter. To be the one that keeps showing up in class with a goofy smile against the wall.

I agree with social life being a game. It isn\’t supposed to be that way. When we win, we become friends. When we lose, we are no more than aquaintances. There are always people who don\’t try. There are always those that smile and they find the potential within themselves to be someone. Stop letting it become a game.