Week Wrapup
Procrastinated heavily on first week of homework…not a good omen for rest of the quarter. Don’t want to pull more Thursday late night sessions. All homework for classes are due on Friday.
2nd intern started at Apple, from Carnegie Mellon. We trash-talked our respective robot car teams. Good guy though.
Was asked to give a five minute pitch about the Social E-Challenge to a panel discussion featuring some angel investors. This turned into a 3 hour diversion, but one in which I rescued enough free food to feed six fellow grad students for up to 15 meals.
Data visualization class with Dr. Heer is the class I have the most fun in, yet I’m not officially taking it.
Getting the hang of Twitter updates (i think), enjoying the updates i’ve been getting from Mike and Win. My problem is that some of the more ‘well-known’ people tweet at much higher frequencies and tend to drown out my friends.
Learned that my fuel cell professor is a real deal baller. Aldo V. da Rosa, is 92 years old and professor emeritus. Born in Brazil, he went to the military academy and aeronautical school, then went to Harvard and Stanford, picking up a PhD in EE. He also rose to brigadier general of the Brazilian Air Force and founded the Brazil’s version of NASA. If that wasn’t enough, he has also broken 37 world records in Masters swimming, and currently holds the world records for the 200m IM and 200m breast stroke for the 85-89 age group. Like whoa.
Been making decent progress on contacting judges for social e-challenge. Around 33 confirmed so far.
Win Said,
January 17, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
I’ll follow people for a few days, and if their “noise” outweighs their good content, I’ll drop them. I also don’t get/make updates by SMS. I stick to twitter.com (web), twhirl (desktop), and twitterific (iphone) for that.
Saket Said,
January 18, 2009 @ 2:56 am
Yeah, definitely. From my phone I just go the mobile twitter website too, not SMS.
Any recommended people to follow?