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Busier than ever

The past week I’ve been living in report writing hell, and the next week doesn’t look that much better either. With a marketing report recently completed, my “SE1″ report is on the horizon along with my power systems (261) lab report and econometrics assignment.
The reqs that we’re writing for the new imaginary Quest should come [...]

Half done exams!

I just wrote two exams back to back, PSYCH/PHIL 256 and ECON 371, this evening. Although I feel that I was adequately prepared for the exam, I think the answer key to the ECON 371 (Business Finance I) exam will start like last year’s exam…
It seems that the exam was much too long, even though [...]

Bonus Video: Streets of Waterloo

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I could imagine Larry Smith rapping, but … David Johnson too?
And that answers the question, what is in the water in Waterloo. Yes… just what is in the water? haha

CS disappears from Waterloo

Where did it go?

Oh, it’s over now!

As of about… 10 minutes ago? We have full context switching for our OS project! About 95% of the project has already been implemented and unit tested so we’re effectively done!
Right on schedule…

Plan B [Update 2]

Since I didn’t get the job offer that I wanted for the next work term, I’ll be staying in Waterloo doing some extra courses as my “Plan B”. I’ve got the preliminary go ahead by the ECE department, so it is only a matter of paper pushing to make it official. What is “it”? A [...]

What happened to Jobmine?

They must’ve started training those youngsters how to use Jobmine now! How can there be so many applications?

Funny Prof

Just in from course announcement page[...]

Out of my mind?

For reasons beyond any plausible explanation that I can give, I just had the spontaneous urge to extend my academic career by an extra term to do something totally crazy. It might not be a full load term too, since I’ll probably be able to write off a few of my engineering courses as anti-reqs.

Don’t let the picture deceive you

This is a photo taken from the ECE 324 lecture when Dr. Wayne Loucks was trying to explain to the class about load lines. Although his drawings on the tablet pc may need significant improvements, he’s actually really really good at explaining the material well in class (for those that listen to the prof, not [...]