Posts Tagged as ‘University of Oregon’

February 13, 2010

actually learning in school

In school, I’ve always been in classes with 30+ students…in college many of my classes had 300+ kids. The classes I took for the Spanish major were a little better at having smaller class sizes…until they turned many of our upper-division Spanish classes into lecture courses, aka turning our previous 30 student class into a [...]

September 4, 2009

Oregon Blount’s freak-out = great opp. for citizen journalism. and graph making.

As much as I say I hate social media, at times it can be a source of some pretty great insights. Courtesy of LeGarette Blount’s disgustingly repugnant, immature and flat out embarrassing display of incredibly poor sportsmanship during last night’s Duck game, I was provided with content for this post. So…thanks LeGarette! Insight #1 is brought [...]

March 27, 2009

AHA’s sustainability account rocks

Our sustainability account in AHA made a video…they rock – check it out:

January 27, 2009

a day in the life of a student run ad. agency

I always seem to be talking about AHA and NVC, but I don’t think I have done a great job explaining these crazy acronyms.   AHA stands for Allen Hall Advertising. AHA is not pronounced as A.H.A…it’s AHA! As in…Eureka!  We are a student run “ad” agency…or communications agency…or how about idea agency?  We have [...]

November 14, 2008

school is killing my education

Schools killing creativity and relativity have always been a topic of interest and curiosity.  I have to say the University of Oregon has a multitude of outstanding programs, classes, professors, clubs, etc.  However, the major component missing at the U of O – and in reality the majority of schools – is the element of [...]

October 14, 2008

exploring Eugene neighborhoods

I took my camera on a walk I took around the South University neighborhood this past Saturday: Installation art, or just someone with an intense front yard memorabilia collection…?  I’ll let you be the judge: standard: …WHY???  Is the first and only thing that really comes to mind…

October 8, 2008

WK London came to play

Sam Brookes and Lucy Collier from Wieden + Kennedy London paid us a visit in Portland today!  A few UO ad. kids and I had the wonderful opportunity to spend the afternoon learning from and collaborating with these two amazing thought leaders.  As always, great strategic thinking and great working coming from WK London.  Keep your [...]

September 14, 2008

unexpected (but exciting!) new addition…

When the news first came, I was slightly in shock and caught off guard – this type of event certainly doesn’t happen every day. However, once the news settled and I overcame the initial shock, my excitement began to rise as I thought about what would be in store over the course of the next [...]

September 7, 2008

What the hell is going on in Oregon?

 

August 22, 2008

so what’s next?

That seems to be the million dollar question for every COLAB intern post-COLAB. For me, unfortunately (or possibly fortunately) I still have a year left at the UO and with that, it’s going to be a jammed packed year. Luckily, I’ve been able arrange my classes and use my study abroad so that I can [...]