This just in: I have officially graduated with my Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Virginia engineering school. Phew! Sadly, this may be one of the last times I use my 'engineering school' and 'college' tags in a post, which is sort of bittersweet.


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Our technical project team was done for the year earlier this week, so we all went out drinking. I woke up the next day at 8AM with a spectacular hangover and had to go participate in a 4 hour research study for a grad student in the systems engineering and information department.

I hadn't eaten breakfast beforehand and didn't have time to pick it ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is driving me crazy. There was a AE Inception fic that had Eames as the host of a television cooking show, and Arthur and Ariadne were fans who watched his show and went to one of his book signings. And I remember one of Eames's tv episodes featured him showing his viewers how to use various parts of a pig when cooking food. Of course ( Read more... )

That awkward moment when you walk out of the lab with wet-gel electrode leads still stuck to your arms and don't notice it till your friends point it out.

(First day of class, professor doesn't come in wearing wizard robes like his predecessors. However ( Read more... )

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UGH. We had our Defence Against the Dark Arts exam today. For those of you who don't know, our computer science department is amazing, and this is the name they gave our malware/cybersecurity class ( Read more... )

Okay, I had to write this paper for my Science, Technology, and Society class (a writing class for engineers), and I'm actually kind of proud of it. It investigates approaches to software development against a book we had to read called Shop Class As Soulcraft that addresses the state and history of craft or trade vocations such as mechanics. I don ( Read more... )

My professor for Web Development and Mobile Computing was talking about different types of software today. These are the highlights.

About Wal-mart marketing: "How do they make those damn smiley faces dance?"

About UPS: "UPS's business model is to move crap from one place to another."

About Wachovia: "I used to work at Wachovia. The security in the ( Read more... )

My Operating Systems professor is a very matter-of-fact humourless Asian man who has no brain to mouth filter, so everything he says  is automatically hilarious. Try to say any of these quotes with a straight face. Go on, try.

• About semaphores:  "Maybe they don't like the Dutch. P and V, what is that? I don't care."
• "These days, if anything goes ( Read more... )