My most fascinating class this semester is my first university level liberal arts elective, macroeconomics, taught by the infamous Larry Smith.  I have my first midterm in macroeconomics tomorrow, which is noteworthy because up until now, all my midterms have been on engineering or math subjects.  I’m interested in comparing the relative difficulty of the [...]

I’ve had two interviews so far, and at the moment I have ten more to go, although this number is likely to increase as time goes on.  I had no idea I was going to have so many interviews.  The co-op instructor told us that we should all apply for 50 jobs (the max), and [...]

I’ve returned to Waterloo from CUSEC.  On Friday, Noah Sugarman and I presented findthehotties.com to the CUSEC democamp.  We were a big hit, but unfortunately, we were hacked by three seperate groups within minutes of finishing the presentation.  Two of the groups personally contacted me with suggestions on how to improve security; of that I’m [...]

This week I’m at the Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC) in Montreal. So far, I’ve been to two of the opening day keynote speeches. First up was Leah Culver, a stunning software engineer from San Francisco, arguably most famous for founding the social networking site Pounce, which unfortunately, recently  shutdown.  Leah is an enthralling [...]

I used Jobmine for the first time today. Jobmine is the University of Waterloo’s online co-op job board. There are about 700 jobs available that fit into my area of expertise (CE, SE, CS). Many of these jobs are available to more than one student, but on the other hand, it’s conceivable that some companies [...]

Wow, it’s 2:40 AM, and I’m still up setting up my blog.  I got class tomorrow at 10.  Goodnight.