Kris Jordan

I cannot recollect the last time I successfully endeavored an all-nighter. Not in some time, for sure. I believe that is a testament to college maturity. I remember an anecdote from a high school teacher citing her experience with college. During exams the underclassmen would stay up all night studying away. […]

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Everything is shaping up with regard to plans for the summer. The theme this go-round is preparation for graduate school. I will be starting work with Andy van Dam and the Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing. The center is sponsored by Microsoft and explores the frontier of tablet based computing. […]

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I picked up two books I intend to read over the coming weeks. Douglas Hofstadter’s “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” and “I Am a Strange Loop”. A column in a recent Time magazine turned me on to the works. I find it fascinating neither myself nor my circle of closest […]

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The past couple of weeks have been stressful. The big decision has been where will I be next year? Where is my future? The choice was between University of Colorado: Boulder, Columbia University, Brown University, and the University of North Carolina. I could easily weed out Boulder and Columbia for financial […]

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