Posted
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:35:44 GMT
to Posted in Life, School
A while ago, I was contacted to participate in a new advertising campaign for Dal. They were apparently looking for ‘cool students doing cool things’ and one of my professors apparently recommended me from among students in our faculty. Go figure. At the time, I thought to myself ‘Sure, why not?’. I thought that it would be something like a little blurb and a photo in some advertising pamphlet, maybe even my picture on a fridge magnet that I could send home.
Instead…...... I ended up Discovering the Unexpected.
I have to admit that the photo shoot and the video was fun, even if the entire thing went farther than initially expected. Talking to some of the other students involved with this, they all had the original ‘I thought it was just going to be a picture and some text’ expectations that I had, and are all a little overwhelmed by what it became in the end. Especially since the other day we found out that some of this stuff might be in movie theatres this summer…........
My first thought was ‘Dear God, I have to move out of this province now’.
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Posted
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:14:33 GMT
to Posted in Geek, School, Ideas
As many of you might know, a while back Mike Smit started taking a hard look at TurnItIn.com a while back. For those of you who follow his site, he has more recently begun an information campaign, pointing out failings, problems, and concerns with the service. Even outside of his site, the issue has been getting a lot of attention, including being covered in the current issue of the Dalhousie Gazette.
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Posted
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:48:23 GMT
to Posted in School, Projects
At the start of this term, I thought I had one more degree requirement: one second year or higher course that was from Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Management or Commerce. ‘Crap’ said I, ‘I most likely won’t be able to complete that until next fall’.
Today, however, I checked over what I needed to graduate and all I will need after this term is any one course. ANY ONE COURSE. I forgot that I signed up for a 3rd year commerce (Entrepreneurship) course at the last minute this term. Which means I can basically take anything this summer if I wanted to.
Funnily enough, this discovery comes just after having a talk with Dr. Scrimger regarding the directed studies course. Sure, at the time I didn’t think I would be able to take this course. However, it is my opinion that simple course work doesn’t really cut it for preparing students for their post university experience. Sure there is Co-op, but that is more ‘ok I need a job, any job, and maybe I will like it or not’ where Directed Studies is supposed to be more of ‘Yeah, this stuff really excites me, I want to try it’. Sure, there is Honours as well, but Honours has additional requirements.
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Posted
Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:51:15 GMT
to Posted in Life, Geek, School
Tags acm, dal, debian, hacking, linux, roomba, xen
So the Dal-ACM hosted another Installfest on Saturday. Rather than be a simple spectator of cool stuff and mooching off the nice spread of snacks, I decided to be an actual PARTICIPANT this time.
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Posted
Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:36:39 GMT
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Picking up my mail today, there happened to be a big paper tube accompanying the regular catalogs/bills/junk. Even more curious, it was addressed to me. Odd…... I wasn’t expecting anything.
Inside was a letter from the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, as well as a sheet of paper that had the words Sean Smith and Citizenship Award in big, fancy lettering.
While I can’t say this comes as a COMPLETE surprise, the timing was somewhat unexpected. I knew Mike had written up a nomination form (and Mike, reading this letter, you obviously put in a lot), and that Jon and Mark had signed it, but the e-mail that requests nominations each term also states that “Students who are nominated for an award will be contacted by the Scholarship Committee so they can provide a résumé, transcript and any other information which they think the Committee should consider in its decision.” Now, I haven’t heard anything about it since I was told by my nominators that I had been nominated, and in fact, have been asked by some of them if I have heard anything, cause they hadn’t when the summer term nominations request went out.
In the end, I am honored to have been considered, and selected for this award. I would like to thank all of those who helped make this possible, including my nominators, and all of those who actually came out to the events I arranged.
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