Work in advanceDON’T PROCRASTINATE / Don’t procrastinate / Don’t procrastinate on projects

Do NOT procrastinate / Do not procrastinate! / DO NOT PROCRASTINATE!!!

Do not wait until [the] due date.

Don’t put anything off.

Never wait until the last minute to start a project.

Don’t start projects the night before.

Do not start working on your designs on Thursday night.

Do not wait until Thursday night for the love of God.

Do not spend your entire Thursdays to finish up your work.

Start early; don’t procrastinate / Start thinking about projects early / Get started early with projects

Work day-by-day.

Give yourself a whole week for projects instead of cramming.

Work throughout the week. Don’t wait till Thursday night.

Think about your projects all week when you can.

Start early! Get a head start every week, that way you have more to work with later, and your final product

will be your best.

Treat every week like the last week! You say you’ll put more effort in the next week and the next week,

but chances are, it won’t happen.

Good design takes timeTake your time on projects!

Put a lot of time into each project.

You can’t cram design, it takes time with trial and error.

Spend large chunks of time working on a project to keep a nice period of thinking.

This class takes a lot of time. Although you can pull something out fast or last minute, it doesn’t mean it’s good.

Make sure that you have time to really perfect the work you do, because working toward getting the designer

aesthetic is the key part (in my eyes) of the course.

Expect to spend a lot of time on these projects! I didn’t anticipate this amount of time, and towards the end,

[I] felt burnt out from the demand of assignments.

Set aside time for this 166 classMake 166 your priority, and spend colossal amounts of time on it. It’s worth it!

Be conscious of the classes/time slots in which you complete the rest of your credits for the quarter.

Do not attempt ARCH 210/211 concurrently with 166 unless they are your only two classes.

Take a light load of other classes for the quarter you take Design [166].

Preferably take easier, less time-consuming classes, and don’t work a job, that really made this class rough.

If you commute, try not to during this class. A lot of [the] time I spent on the bus, I could have been working

on a project.

Manage your time intelligentlyManage your time.

Manage time to allow for [design] exploration.

Mat when you have extra time. If you can’t work on your designs, do your matting first.

Plan ahead/ Have a planPrepare for everything ahead of time.

ALWAYS PLAN AHEAD! Your work will take longer than you expect!

Be sure to have a plan of attack.

Make a plan. Or you’ll find yourself getting very little sleep.

Save room, in time and budget, for mistakes and bad ideas.

Give yourself time to print in case anything goes wrong.

ADVICE FOR FUTURE 166 STUDENTS (from Previous Students)

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This is a serious class—hard, but fun and rewardingPrepare to have a fun and wonderful (but also hard and painful) experience of design!

Take this class seriously, and it can change the path that you will take later on.

Take the class seriously if you want a good grade.

Definitely take 166, but take it seriously.

Take the class! Even if you don’t want to be a design major. HOWEVER, if you are willing to commit a significant

portion of your quarter, you’ll learn useful info/skills that anyone could use.

The project(s) are a little bit hard for the one who [is] just [beginning] to study/learn design.

Participate in all classes and class activitiesTry to [be] involve[d] as much as possible.

Go to every class (lecture and critique). Every one was useful.

Attend every lecture!

Attend every single class. Be on time. DO YOUR WORK!

Attend lectures and section. Do the readings.

Do the readings, you’ll learn a lot about the basics of design.

Participate, commit to the projects, READ the assigned reading, try to model the examples of effective design

presented by Cheng/TAs.

Make friendsMake friends in the class.

Make friends in the class.

Get to know your classmates.

Go to CLUE and office hoursGo to CLUE/office hours.

Go to CLUE and office hours as often as possible.

Go to CLUE session. Go to office hours. Ask lots of questions.

Office hours and CLUE sessions are incredibly helpful.

Go to CLUE and office hours. They are very helpful in understanding the projects, what’s right about [your] piece,

and what you can do to improve.

Attend office hours!

Go to office hours.

Try to get help as much as you can from CLUE session, office hours w/ TAs and Prof. Cheng.

If you want office hour time w/Prof. Cheng, sprint to the front of the room right after she puts out the signup sheet.

I would advise future 166 students to take advantage of all the wonderful resources offered throughout the

year, these being weekly CLUE sessions and office hours. And if they are unable to get a timeslot with Prof. Cheng,

the TAs are always available. Get as much feedback as possible.

Go to office hours. Karen and the TAs give good feedback.

Financial issuesBe prepared to spend lots of little amounts of money.

Be prepared to spend more money than you would have expected.

I feel like I could have done better if I’d been prepared for the actual supply cost.

You can be thrifty, but there are repeated costs throughout the course that add up.

Set aside $200-300 for supplies, or $500 if you want to buy Adobe instead of working only in the library.

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