Saket Vora

All that remain are my final exams. This afternoon the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments held a dedication ceremony for our new home, Engineering Building II on Centennial Campus. There was a very good turnout: Chancellor James Oblinger, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Wendell Murphy, and keynote speaker was Chairman of Progress Energy, Bob McGehee. I interned for Progress Energy last summer so it was neat to hear him speak. This morning the company announced a donation of $1.2 million dollars to endow three professorships, and they also funded the bridge that connects the two wings together in the building. Pretty cool.

I turned in my term project for Controls this morning — finally good to be done with all that. I gotta do well on the final, which will likely be my most difficult one. That is a week from today

I found out Thursday morning, at around 12:30am,  that Dr. Afroz Taj who teaches the Hindi class at NC State will be moving to UNC next year and so our Hindi class has been cancelled! Well, let me clarify — it has been moved to a different time slot and will be taught via videoconference. It is quite disappointing because (a) I really was looking forward to this to help with my Gujurati (b) three of my good friends were going to take it with me and (c) they announce this just two days before the end of the year! Now we have to scramble to find another course to take. It’s crazy.

Tonight Mike and Nader will be coming by to watch the Hurricanes-Canadiens game. We gotta win this one to tie up the series. Go ‘Canes!