November 3, 2009 at 3:49 pm (CoC related, Life)
Tags: My Life as a Sitcom, the pains of a computer nerd
I was sitting in the student organizations room on one of the comfy couches talking to my friend Michael when he said something amazing. What would it be like if we could turn our every day life into a sitcom?
You’d be surprised how many crazy things happen in the CoC. Ajai alone is “an indian incarnation of an energy drink.” Michael’s going to become president of the United States someday to pad his resume so he can work for Microsoft or Google. We have a staff member who’s an ex-NFL player, one who’s an improv comedian, one who’s been on the Colbert report… there are so many interesting people here.
A story format could be interesting. I’ve kind of tried it before… and it could be fun (To check out that effort of a story post about my life, click here). I’d probably use code names though…. to protect everyone’s privacy. The only down side is that I don’t really have access to a production studio (I mean, so many people do, right? *please pick up on the sarcasm *), so I’ll settle for a blog… for now 
. I think I’m going to try it… so stay tuned! … this is craziness…
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October 30, 2009 at 8:47 pm (CoC related, Student Organizations)
Tags: FABulousness, Student Orgs Rock!, the pains of a computer nerd
As the Women@CC Chair, I may be a little biased, but Phantasma was amazing!! It may have been one of the best CoC student organizations events this semester. So many people came, everyone seemed to be getting really involved with the contests and games and seemed to be having fun.
It started to rain, so we had to resort to our rain location in the Klaus Atrium. This was actually our first choice of location, but because there was another event that didn’t end until 3p, we out it down as a back-up. It’s a good thing we did because we couldn’t have had the entire event outside. We only had an hour to set up, but so many people came to help out. It all pulled together really well.
We had so many pther participating student organizations. The face painting and caricatures was sponsored by Gourd, the Chubby Bunny food eating contest sponsored by UPE, the FIREwall did Musical Chairs, M@CC did the Trick or Treat Roulette game, and SAB and CISCO brought Trivia. When I took the position of Women@CC Chair, one of my main goals was to bring the student organizations more together to bring more people together. This event makes me happy ^_^.
There were so many events, contests, and interesting people at Phantasma this year… I took over 90 pictures! To see more of my pictures, feel free to visit my Picasa page at http://picasaweb.google.com/touching.the.sky/20091030Phantasma?feat=directlink.
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October 29, 2009 at 10:35 am (CoC related, Student Organizations)
Tags: FABulousness, Student Orgs Rock!, the pains of a computer nerd
Need a break from your classes? Procrastinating on homework anyway?
Come take a break with the College of Computing Student Organizations at the Women@CC’s annual Fall Festival event, Phantasma! This year, we’re even partnering up with SAB’s Trivia Night to bring in even more fun!
Come join us for FREE food, cool prizes, pumpkin carving contest, food eating contest, caricatures, the dance-floor, face-painting, music, our sweets making station (caramel apples, chocolate, white chocolate, fruit…), pizza, cotton candy, trivia, and so much more! Wear a costume or bring a pie to automatically be entered to win the costume contest or pie baking contest to be judged by the faculty and staff.
DATE: Friday, October 30, 2009
TIME: 4:00p- 7:00p
WHERE: Courtyard between Howey and Sustainable Education Building
RAIN LOCATION: Klaus Atrium
We hope to see you there!
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October 15, 2009 at 1:42 pm (CoC related, Student Organizations)
Tags: FABulousness, Student Orgs Rock!
Photos courtesy of Michael Slaughter
Georgia Tech Official Homecoming 09 Website: http://homecoming.gatech.edu/
Our Homecoming Display! The guys did such a great job putting this together. They worked from 8:00p until almost 4 in the morning (event rules only gives them from 8:00p – 10:00am to work on it), and have some adorably awesome displays to show for their hard work. Also, you may not be able to see it from these pictures, but there’s a picture of our interim CoC Dean Foley on the side of the train. He’s known for loving trains ^_^.
Two of our guys participated in the Clown Relay where they not only had to wear clown suits (shoes, nose, and all), but go through obstacles and do challenges such as hoola hooping, juggling, jump-roping and more. (Second pic = me happy for homecoming ^_^)
We won our division of The Great Clown Car Act!! One team we watched fit almost 20 girls in their 6ft x 4ft x 4ft box! At least they weren’t in our division ! We fit 12 with plenty of room to spare, but not enough volunteers. However, the ones that did participate were wonderful and got in with amazing quickness so that we took home 1st place in our category!
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October 10, 2009 at 2:20 am (CoC related, Student Organizations)
Tags: FABulousness
www.teambuzz.org
Some of the lovely ladies of Women@CC participated in Team Buzz this year! An annual Georgia Tech wide volunteer project for the city of Atlanta, Team Buzz is a great opportunity to get together with the rest of the college to give back to the city of Atlanta. Almost 2000 Georgia Tech students participated in the event this year!
This year, the College of Computing Women@CC had eight volunteers: Pushkara Chaganti, Ka Young Kim, Sravya Kotte, Ugochi Ofoha, Candis Pham, Madhuri Tondepu, Haritha Viravalli, and Yonnie Yang. We participated in the Eastlake project cleaning a public park, pulling weeds, and mulching. It was a lot of fun and residents of Atlanta even came out of their nearby stores to thank us ^_^.
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October 3, 2009 at 10:44 am (CoC related, Student Organizations)
Tags: FABulousness, linkedin
We’re going home! GHC, as usual, was absolutely amazing. I love all the new people you meet and stories you hear, the sessions you go to and and things that you learn. I love all the new places you get to go to, companies you get to talk to, and stuff you get to take back home with you (physically as well as mentally, haha). I love all the relationships you build and wonderful Women@CC members that you get to bond with while on the trip 
. But as fun as it was, I’m happy to be going back home to Atlanta and my sweetheart.
Although, next year, the GHC will be in Atlanta! The preview video shown as the last keynote made Atlanta look amaaazing (I really wanted to post the video on here… it was that awesome… but I can’t seem to find it). It makes me want to visit places in Atlanta that I didn’t want to go to before! lol. jk jk. I’m a little bummed we don’t get to travel anywhere new next year, but I’m SUPER excited we get to send a lot more Women@CC members to the conference! Whoo hoo!
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October 2, 2009 at 7:04 am (CoC related, Student Organizations)
Tags: FABulousness, linkedin, Take my Breath Awaaaay
Yay for hiking through the desert! lol. It was a lot of fun and I wish we could have stayed longer. So it wasn’t actually “hiking through the desert” like you’d think in movies with dunes of sand. There actually wasn’t any sand at all. We were in Tucson, Arizona. It was strangely breathtakingly beautiful. 
The sun was in the perfect spot that day. When I was little, I wanted to be a professional photographer, but after getting a little older and realizing that that wasn’t really a practical career path, I settle for just enjoying the little moments I get to be artsy and take in the view .
There was so much cacti! And they were so big!! I had always thought cacti that big was rare and was only really seen in the movies. They were everywhere! It was amazing.
Yeah, so I really wanted to touch a cactus needle, lol. … it really was just like a sewing needle… smooth and long, but really really sharp on the end . Fun stuff. Also, apparently it only rains in Arizona a couple of weeks out of the year. It looked like rain on the last day we were there. I’m not sure whether to be flattered or bummed with our bad luck X_x, lol.
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October 2, 2009 at 1:29 am (CoC related, Life)
Tags: FABulousness, linkedin, the pains of a computer nerd
This morning while on the bus from our hotel to the conference center, I met this really nice lady from the University of Connecticut (If you ever go to a conference, GHC or other, DEFINITELY take advantage of the fact that most of the people there don’t know most of the other people there. Try starting conversations with them. They expect it. You never know who you may meet). We talked about a lot of things… our interests, her research, our experiences. During one point in the conversation she recommended checking out the SIGGRAPH conference during the summer. The Grace Hopper Conference is a general conference focused mainly towards women in the fields of computer science. As a Computational Media major, it’s sometimes hard to find an aspect of the conference that focuses towards what I want to do. As it turns out, the SIGGRAPH conference is a huge conference directed towards computer graphics and animations!! I was so excited. I’m going to definetely check it out.
To find out more information for yourself, feel free to visit there website at http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/
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October 1, 2009 at 5:43 pm (CoC related, Student Organizations)
Tags: FABulousness, linkedin
I absolutely love this conference. This is the third year I’ve attended and it’s just great. It’s always full of amazing people all with crazy experiences and stories. For example one of our keynote speakers was just indited as a Dame! There’s plenty of great advice for both your social life and your professional life. Not to mention, there’s always lots of corporate companies with job opportunities and SWAG! lol
The STARR Hotel and Spa is amazing. We’re staying in Doubletree, which is also amazing (they give you so much complimentary stuff including facewash, sunscreen, toothpaste… FREE freshly baked chocolate chip cookies), but Doubletree didn’t have the amazing view and pool area that STARR did.
Cacti are so amazingly entertaining. I never would have thought I would enjoy them so much. I guess it’s just the new experience or something, but Arizona is so cool! … and the dry air actually does wonders for my complexion and hair (as opposed to the overbearing humidity of Atlanta).
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