2nd Semester 50% Finished
By Ian R. Taylor on March 24th, 2010Posted In: Comic Blog
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Currently on delightful Spring Break and OH MY GOODNESS is it relaxing! Which is great because that first half of the semester was rough as heck. Doing OK in my classes, I know what I need to do to step it up yet a notch further.
Accomplishments of Spring Break:
Have been reviewing Chinese characters 3 days [...]
Well it’s been a long but very successful first two days at Cornell University. So far this feels like the most “collegey” of all my semesters. China and the World looks to be a very interesting history/political theory class on modern China. Mandarin II basically evokes the typically feelings of inadequacy and dread, but at [...]
Projects, Work, and Other Miscellaneous Things
By Ian R. Taylor on November 15th, 2009Posted In: Comic Blog
There was no comic for last week, but I’ll at least upload some doodles, sketches, and various other things.
Here’s a page from a typical Chinese-character study session. Each session produces about three to four pages:
Doodle from a a page of cryptology notes:
Original poem in Chinese. Translation: Wanting to find one piece of Gold / Finding [...]
I’ve just finished my first full week of classes at Cornell, and, other than having a nasty cold, things are going pretty well.
My schedule:
German Detective Fiction.
Upper Intermediate Chinese.
History of the Modern Middle East.
Cryptology.
For those who don’t already know, I’m a China and Asia-Pacific Studies Major, and will complete my minor in German Studies Minor next [...]
