Only At Tech
It’s a FMyLife site made just for Georgia Tech. Yes, I spent the last 2 hours on that site instead of studying for my big Constructing Proofs test. Whoever came up with the site is genius ^_^. Gotta love Tech…. 
Just a dash of the hilarity that you would only understand if you went to Tech^_^:
- I witnessed a guy cross the street during busy traffic and upon asking him what he was thinking, he responded with, “Well, if I get hit by a Stinger, I get free tuition, and if I don’t live, my roommate gets free tuition!” Only at Tech.
- Everyone knows the Brittain Orange Challenge. You swipe oranges from Brittain and hurl them as hard as you can towards Bobby Dodd and try to make it over. You need to be running approximately 5 m/s before and the initial velocity of the orange must be approximately 30.3 m/s to succeed.Only at Tech
- We’re at a school where women are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the rest… handicapped… Only at Tech
- Three weeks prior to the launch of Windows 7, if I told any of my friends that I was using Vista they would laugh at me an respond, “You’re STILL using Vista?” Only at Tech.
- Its 1:40 in the morning and a fire alarm went off. The majority of the people outside are fully dressed and some have their laptops. Like me who’s sending this in. Only at Tech
If I Could Make my Life Into a Sitcom…
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…
PHANTASMA 2009!!!
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.
WOMEN@CC PHANTASMA!!
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!
Grace Hopper Conference Day #4
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/
Grace Hopper Conference Day #1
The Plane Ride
Mental note to self: make sure to charge laptop before the 4 hour flight I plan to do work on. I could have swore I charged it last night, but I guess I forgot. I did go to bed really late… so I guess it could have just slipped my mind. It’s actually really weird sitting in between 4 different people, three of which are on a laptop… and I’m the computing major . These people are exceptionally interesting though… talked to each of them for a little while (it was a really long flight)… so I guess this is a special case. There’s teh fashion designer for Los Angelas in her long red dress watching a romantic comedy about a couple of dog lovers. There’s the middle aged guy just coming back from his first high school reunion playing solitaire. There’s the nice old couple from Mexico, the husband frantically typing away on some sort of proposal. Then there’s me.. my pen on paper, throwing words on a page because I don’t really know what else to do. I feel so lost without my computer, lol.
Unreal Tournament
For all of you video game fanatics, no, I’m not referring to the shooter video game. I mean the program builder environment… meh.
In my “Constructing a Moving Image” class today, we just started incorporating our Maya files with Unreal Tournament. It was crazy. For a program that was used in the production of games such as the Gears of War, you’d think it’d be more reliable and user friendly! Just maneuvering around the environment takes some getting used to. It’s also super picky about how many polygons are in your Maya object, so you can’t really get to fancy. Also, apparently it’s not to mac friendly… I guess it’s time to bring out the old Dell! Oh well, hopefully it gets better. Today was just the first day!
Software Wishes
One of my new classes this semester is LCC 2730 – Constructing the Moving Image. Right now, we’re learning the basics of Autodesk Maya, a 3D rendering software. Pixar has used this software in making animated films such as Shrek and Monsters verses Aliens. I think I’m in love <3 <3 ^_^ <3 <3.
I look around online and the price range for Autodesk Maya was somewhere between $2000 and $4000!!
I wish I had money
