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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

I’m taking a quick break from my second all nighter of the term. ECE 241 final exam have proven itself a pain in the butt to study for when you have an ECON 202 final exam directly following it. Especially with being locked out of my apartment last night, I definitely have made less progress [...]

I finally pulled myself together to finish that ECE 251 projects on the weekend. I managed to put in more semantic checks then what the project appeared to be looking for, based on the error reporting class that the TA provided. The documentation was slightly rushed so there were no pretty UML diagrams and such, [...]

After being damaged from last year’s High Voltage Lab fire, the Pulley lab is now re-open for business! This super air-conditioned (read: not smelly) lab is located on the 2nd floor in CPH next to the door that connects to E2. More pictures after the break!

x3 desktops.

Struggling with making significant progress with the ECE 251 project over the past few days, I’ve finally decided to replace my end of term countdown clock on my dashboard with a ECE 251 project due date countdown. I figure sending myself into panic mode for the project would help me get it all done that [...]

The School of Computer Science is running a logo design contest with the top prize of $600 and runner-up prizes of $200. You can see the CS logo contest website for more details about this.
I like how they also have stated there is a possibility that no logos would be selected if there are no [...]

ECE student in the wild, originally uploaded by Scott Kuo.

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