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Ontario Engineering Competition at UW

The past week has been no less than crazy for me and the entire Project IRIS team. From designing the overall presentation for hitting a moving target down to creating an unbelievable sales pitch, we all did the best we could have possibly done to bring home a deserved 3rd place in the Innovation Design [...]

This just in…

Scott et al,
I am pleased to inform you that your project entry has been selected to represent the University of Waterloo ‘A’ at the 2010 Ontario Engineering Competition, taking place January 29 – 31.
Oh… January is going to be so busy…

Commentary: Changes to Quest

The new Quest Student Information System update is no more than atrocious, especially when it took them years to plan for this change. Just from this first page after signing in, I already have issues with it.

Page title: “Campus-facing registry content” – whatever that means.
Content title: “Heng-Chun’s Student Center” – there exists something in my [...]

FYDP and the future of UWLive

After the big rush of mid-terms and insane lab report due dates in the last two weeks, I have been busy over the past few days doing a small sprint on writing more stuff into our project specifications. Due to an unwarranted force in the department, we are working hard to make sure that our [...]

Fourth-Year Design Project – Project IRIS

With our FYDP now well into the so called “Elaboration / Elicitation” phase of your typical PLC terminology, we have spent a lot of hours over the reading week into the planning for the “big project”.
In consistency with my habit of posting up super vague information about anything that might be important, all I am [...]

FYDP

FYDP Symposium @ DC Center on Jan 21.

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?