I attended a fireside with Dr. Streetman (Dean of UT's School of Engineering) last night. OMG he's such a grades/test scores/rankings whore! The admissions office rejected an applicant who had a 1600 SAT score (under the old system), so he went and personally made them admit her. Doom. Is that even ethical? Also, he goes out and recruits high- ( Read more... )

There's a spycamera in the front of the ENS, and its images are accessible in real-time by anyone on any computer anywhere. Ambler wants to put spycams all around the building (if he hasn't already) to "make the women students feel safer." Discuss.

There's a "penthouse" student lounge on the 7th floor of the ENS. Why did I not know this? Also, I should be doing homework. In fact, I should've been doing homework 3 hours ago.

Classes post:
( LOL this turned out to be a lot more stream-of-consciousness than I intended. It's probably more for my own amusement than anything else, but if you so desire, the trainwreck is under the cut. )

( Featuring nerds, trees, BSTs, some more nerds, and of course, squirrels. )

Let's see...I'm back, for starters. I learned on this trip that a 9-hour connecting flight to San Hose is so much better than the 13-hour connecting flight to Chicago I had last year. So if you're going from the US to SE Asia or vice versa, do switch flights in California ( Read more... )