Nader
Three years ago I attended a lecture by George Galloway at De Montfort University. Today, I've attended a lecture by Ralph Nader at University of Waterloo.
The lecture was very interesting, and the auditorium was totally full. The doors were meant to be open at 18:30, with the event officially starting at 19:00. Me and a few friends arrived just a few minutes after 18:30, and there were no empty seats. I hardly got a spot just before the start of the lecture, when the reserved seats were going away.
One thing I'd like to take from the lecture is that it is totally not unreasonable to expect that the work you do for your thesis could make an impact and end up being useful for many years to come, even if we're talking about an undergraduate paper or thesis: Ralph's investigations around the automobile industry, culminating with Unsafe at Any Speed, were based on his third-year research paper. From my own experience, I totally agree, as the current two-level OpenBSD hardware sensors framework was my own project back at De Montfort University.
I think I'll commit myself to something today. Whatever my master's thesis project is going to be, I will not accept for it be on vaporware (unless, of course, I somehow switch my concentration to philosophy, and decide to literally do a thesis on vaporware).
The lecture was very interesting, and the auditorium was totally full. The doors were meant to be open at 18:30, with the event officially starting at 19:00. Me and a few friends arrived just a few minutes after 18:30, and there were no empty seats. I hardly got a spot just before the start of the lecture, when the reserved seats were going away.
One thing I'd like to take from the lecture is that it is totally not unreasonable to expect that the work you do for your thesis could make an impact and end up being useful for many years to come, even if we're talking about an undergraduate paper or thesis: Ralph's investigations around the automobile industry, culminating with Unsafe at Any Speed, were based on his third-year research paper. From my own experience, I totally agree, as the current two-level OpenBSD hardware sensors framework was my own project back at De Montfort University.
I think I'll commit myself to something today. Whatever my master's thesis project is going to be, I will not accept for it be on vaporware (unless, of course, I somehow switch my concentration to philosophy, and decide to literally do a thesis on vaporware).