Sometimes it’s the obvious things which take the longest to learn. For me, it’s learning how to walk. Not in a concrete, physical, right leg after left leg kind of way. Luckily I managed to learn how to do that with high levels of success a number of years ago. What […]
Entries Tagged as 'Academics'
Learning How to Walk
February 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Late Night
April 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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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Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood
April 5th, 2007 · No Comments
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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Back to the Grind
March 19th, 2007 · No Comments
After an extended Spring Break filled with traveling I am back home and back in school. From Rhode Island to Jamaica I traveled well over 3432 miles by land, sea, and air. That’s about 1/7th the circumference of the world. A very neat week and a half.
Traveling down a mountain valley river […]
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The Law of Short Layovers
March 8th, 2007 · No Comments
Based on very little fact or reason I am going to propose and assert the law of very short layovers. It goes as follows: layovers which are an hour or under in length cause the probability of your first outgoing flight to be late and subsequently for annoying problems to arise. Problems […]
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Free at Last, Free at Last
March 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Phew, that was a heck of a week! Finally, 2pm Thursday my Spring Break begins with a trip up to Brown University for their PhD recruitment weekend. I’m looking forward to seeing what Providence is like and getting to know more about their Computer Science Department. I’ve heard only good things. […]
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there and back again: client based web apps
February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
Computer Science has a tendency to spin in circles. Paradigms are like the ocean tide. What started with mainframes went to distributed terminals. Then distributed terminals became personal computers. Then PCs became smart clients and powerful PCs servers. Finally, the internet and the web browser transform our PCs into thin, […]
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Shoulders of Giants
February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
Newton once said “If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”
I noticed on Brown’s home page that a professor of Computer Science, Stan Zdonik, was recognized as an ACM Fellow.
This sent me crawling through the ACM pages regarding fellows and then onward to ACM Turing Award Recipient’s such as […]
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lets get it started…
August 24th, 2006 · No Comments
After a few years in school being surrounded by college aged people is easy to take for granted. “The real world can’t be that much different,” they say. After taking a semester off and now being back in classes full time. Wow. Graduation is a scary thought. Its such a luxury to be surrounded by […]
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work, school
August 20th, 2006 · No Comments
The week after a vacation is always a busy one. Joel and I spent a lot of time polishing off the new framework tools that will drive the next round of our web based projects. I had spent the prior two weeks not involving myself in product development and strictly on these tools. It’s going […]