University of Waterloo Tour 2008

This year’s unofficial University of Waterloo tour coincided with UW’s own Open House event, and took place on Tuesday, March 11th. Which just happened to be on the same date as the last year’s tour. This was my 3rd year organizing and hosting such campus orientations, and it was the best yet.

More people came out [...]

Gaming the educational system

This would be a followup to gaming the comp. sci. exams, but now in more general terms. More specifically, I just came across a 1994 Calvin and Hobbes strip (ch940127) on this exact subject.

As you can see, I’ve memorized this utterly useless fact long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget [...]

Playing catchup with Open Source – Microsoft gives out (more) free software to students

Microsoft gives students access to technical software at no charge to inspire success and make a difference

Or Microsoft is playing catchup with the open source community, and is trying to hook students onto their technology before they get accustomed to having alternatives. Either way, we get some professional grade software out of this. Score.

The downloads [...]