Although it was a MPAA-produced, silly movie, Accepted, it's got me thinking ( Read more... )

Just finished reading "Social Space: Canadian Perspectives" edited by D. I. Davies and Kathleen Herman, a collection of "what does it mean to be Canadian"-like stories from the dawn of public consciousness of Canada(early 1970s) as a nation separate from the UK and US ( Read more... )

So after sifting through all the classes offered, I was planning on taking Phys112 - Optics & Waves. Most of my physics-savy friends warned me that this was a fairly difficult physics class, but that seemed only to encourage me. Unfortunately, it turns out that I already have credit for it, because it "shares" 3 credit hours with Phys119(Intro to ( Read more... )

edit fat lady ain' singin yet. Still have more to go
( for posteriority )

I am simply not man enough to see 6.5 years of university as a 'sunk cost' and fade off. It's personal. If it means being evil for a semester to get make those years meaningful, then I will do so. My parents may be an encouragement on this count but I am the one who must make the call. I keep telling myself that the real test of what I believe ( Read more... )

I'm returning to university life, as my semester long work break has ended. With a twist---I'm not leaving work. I'm going to be taking CS280(Social Aspects of Computing), CS335(Computer Networks), that's for sure. But something I could try is to take another class---another night class(non MT) would be ideal, but I initially concocted the idea ( Read more... )

First Essay - 60%. I could have done better, perhaps, had I more time, but that's pretty damn good for a first essay. I think my first essay in english 100 was graded 15%. This mark suggests I could pass this class after all(even without meirionwen's help---with her help I'll be able to do perhaps not too badly!)

"People handing out liquor bottles get 17$/ ( Read more... )

w00t! Aparently I'm now officially a hippie; I passed my ecoeco class. With a 78%. I was really hoping for a 90%, but I got really sick halfway through the semester and I'm *still* recoverring from that. Oh well. What I learned ( Read more... )

Jeff+Laptop -> cs372 class notes online. I havn't got my laptop to work for *every* class, but as time goes on I will hopefully have more and more of my lecture notes, and lecture notes taken from other people as well(To get different perspectives), and who knows mabye like teaching plans and assignments and stuff too (I do have many assignments ( Read more... )

1. Student loan came in. Meaning that I don't have to live at the charity of others for 2 more months at least, and ( Read more... )