While researching for a user study, I came across CMU\’s Daily Challenge. This was one of the first things I saw when I learned about CMU during my freshman year in college.

My boyfriend at the time was a senior in high school and had been raving about a campus that had wireless internet (it was a big thing at the time)…and this amazing flash game. He showed me this site, which intrigued me. Both of us were major (stealth) geeks and CMU appealed to us. Unfortunately though, I was already at Berkeley and he well uh…he just didn\’t have what it takes. The flash game of trying to survive life at CMU remained imprinted in my mind after we broke up.

During my last year as an undergrad, I had started applying to schools. I came across the hci program at CMU…and put that as a definite place to apply. And I did. I\’ll never forget the first impression though of CMU.