Alors…
So... ...all of my marks are out as of this morning... ...and I got totally slaughtered this term...
...reminder to self: never take a heavy courseload containing biochemistry and physics EVER again...
Winter 2010 Schedule
*drumroll*
The Winter 2010 schedule has been posted! So early this year compared to last year, too! :3
Vaccination Poetry
This is some poetry I wrote for an ASIC 200 project... ...I'm not exactly a great poet, but hopefully they get the point across :)
“The Element” by Ken Robinson
The Element is a non-fiction book written by Ken Robinson, Ph.D. Its overall premise, as stated by the cover, is "how finding your passion changes everything". Here's his TED Talk if you're interested to get a taste:
MetroQuest
A few weeks ago, my ASIC 200 class participated in a "lab" which involved using software called MetroQuest to simulate our ideal lifestyle choices and see the outcome of our choices.
1 More Week In Hell
This upcoming week is my most dreaded week of this term (unless my exam schedule really sucks)... ...3 midterms and 2 assignments (and luckily, my lab got canceled)...
On the Process of Time Management
Some of you may have heard of Cal Newport; he's currently a post-doc student at MIT and author of How to Become a Straight-A Student and How to Win at College. This term, I'm working with 2 other UBC students to run a workshop/experiment on study habits and time management as a sub-project of Cal's called Study Hacks on Campus (SHOC). In this post, I will briefly go over some of the ideas we have been attempting and discussing.
Google Reader
I don't know how many times I've blogged about Google Reader, but I know I still have readers that haven't tried it, and thus I'm blogging about it again.
Google Reader is an RSS/Atom aggregator. This is probably meaningless to a lot of my readers, so here's a very quick and simplified explanation. Websites that feature frequent updates are pretty much guaranteed to have something called an RSS (or Atom or another type of) feed. This RSS feed updates automatically whenever the website updates. What an RSS aggregator (like Google Reader) does is it keeps track of all your RSS feeds that you supply to it, and then it notifies you when they are updated.
At this point, some people are probably thinking that Google Reader is a waste of time because they can simply go to their websites and read it there. True (that you can simply read the website), but Google Reader helps you to save time in doing so. Instead of checking multiple sites--potentially several times a day--for updates, Google Reader enables you to check only one page where all updates can be viewed at the same time.
To give a more concrete use of how Google Reader is useful, I will now give a glimpse into how I use my Google Reader; hopefully it will demonstrate how this tool can be used to help make your internet browsing more productive.
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