First day back to classes and my first reaction is:
wow
3 out of 3 lectures finished class 5 min late; all with the professor stumbling through the last 30 seconds of overtime:
1. furiously scrambling through a hundred pages of their notes to find the solution to the problem they weren't even close to finishing
2. writing the "found" solution on the board, looking at us, twisting back at the board with a look of puzzlement and their hand suspended in air, then a return frontal with an incredulous "Yeah"
3. a final "have a good day" and a "we'll have a great semester together"
In sweet news (only temporary), my lab partner and I finished our 2 hour lab in an hour and a half AND there's no lab report. There was another good thing, but I forgot it (which is probably why it was good).
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I was sitting in an empty Grainger Hall classroom eating the first of two subs and stumbled upon an interesting article in the Herald. In the opinion secion, a dude was criticizing Time for choosing "you" as the person of the year. Reason against: "You" aren't doing crap. The "you"s are only a select number of people and he felt that the "you"(bloggers and social website dwellers namely) CAN'T be "you" until the "you"s decide to make and create their own news/programming and stop relying on already existing sources(BBC, Fox, MTV, etc).
Although I really could care less who Time names the "person of the year", I do believe the guy from the Herald is correct in his assessment of the current state of the internet. I believe nomadlife was an initial step in this direction to be free of corporate news, but it's still infantile. I haven't thought hard enough about how to actually implement something like a news blog that doesn't quote BBC or NY Times for stories, but I think nomadlife is relatively close. Will @ be ahead of the pack again (@ had blogs before blogs were called blogs)?
wow
3 out of 3 lectures finished class 5 min late; all with the professor stumbling through the last 30 seconds of overtime:
1. furiously scrambling through a hundred pages of their notes to find the solution to the problem they weren't even close to finishing
2. writing the "found" solution on the board, looking at us, twisting back at the board with a look of puzzlement and their hand suspended in air, then a return frontal with an incredulous "Yeah"
3. a final "have a good day" and a "we'll have a great semester together"
In sweet news (only temporary), my lab partner and I finished our 2 hour lab in an hour and a half AND there's no lab report. There was another good thing, but I forgot it (which is probably why it was good).
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I was sitting in an empty Grainger Hall classroom eating the first of two subs and stumbled upon an interesting article in the Herald. In the opinion secion, a dude was criticizing Time for choosing "you" as the person of the year. Reason against: "You" aren't doing crap. The "you"s are only a select number of people and he felt that the "you"(bloggers and social website dwellers namely) CAN'T be "you" until the "you"s decide to make and create their own news/programming and stop relying on already existing sources(BBC, Fox, MTV, etc).
Although I really could care less who Time names the "person of the year", I do believe the guy from the Herald is correct in his assessment of the current state of the internet. I believe nomadlife was an initial step in this direction to be free of corporate news, but it's still infantile. I haven't thought hard enough about how to actually implement something like a news blog that doesn't quote BBC or NY Times for stories, but I think nomadlife is relatively close. Will @ be ahead of the pack again (@ had blogs before blogs were called blogs)?
Labels: engineering lectures, oranges
posted by Bruhaha at 4:46 PM
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