Sunday/Monday – Day 258/259 – #TheNextBigThing
April 21, 2013
A week behind again! Somehow this keeps on happening. I’ll have to do my best to reconstruct it!
Sunday was Fling recovery and I was up early to ensure all my work was completed. I had a stack of things to get through. Had to prepare for recitation the next day, a submission for my security class, final project for networking, physics and no end of stuff for my students! The only break in the day came in the form of my study with Shlomo Klapper, but even he was exhausted.
Monday – I was up early in the morning, around six am to try get ahead of some physics work for my recitation at nine.Things didn’t go too badly but I found the material a bit beyond me. Seems to be a theme in this course.
However, this morning was also an exciting event for me. Samsung was launching an advertising campaign on campus and as part of it they were giving away ten Galaxy Cameras to students on campus with high ‘Klout’ scores and I was privileged enough to be one of the recipients. Thus at nine, I rocked up to their booth in Houston Hall with my photo idea and was handed a brand new camera, replete with 3G functionality and a full Android (Jelly-Bean) operating system. Not a camera-phone but a phone-camera.
The image quality on the beast wasn’t particularly good but it was sooo much fun taking it round and making skype calls from my camera. I received plenty of weird looks but there isn’t much I enjoy more than being the galactic source of some oddity.
Next up was Networking and then Security. The security topic this time was social engineering. I in fact had made plans for a class wide demonstration of this, but that has to be kept under wraps until tomorrows post. Needless to say it was decently clever but slightly mean. I spent the hour after preparing for my recitation which today was to be located at a slightly different place from normal, Kiwi Frozen Yoghurt! I had decided to take out my entire class given that it was the last chance I had with them outside of the following week’s exam revision session. Semester was fast drawing to a close.
PGC rehearsal and choral society were after, with choral society running really late given that this was our final regular rehearsal before the big concert on Saturday night. An early night after I finished my physics was well in order, my voice still wasn’t up to scratch.
Monday – Day 210
March 1, 2013
Monday was as per usual. Very intense with few breaks. Physics recitation in the morning, which went excellently for once, I really understood the problem set! Next up was a meeting with my CIS551 (Security Team), unfortunately, Swaraj, the Indian guy who was meant to arrive, never showed, having slept through his alarm. Amalia, sitting across from me, was just as unimpressed as I was. Next up was a meeting with a student of mine, who was having some troubles in the course, luckily enough, it was largely due to a run of bad luck and one or two silly mistakes on the assignments. Very easily repairable.
Networking and Security were the same as always, nothing particularly fascinating from either. Following that I had a little time before my recitation to prepare and today’s activity was decided on as a brief introductory play and then more group activities. I also received feedback from my students today, and while they appreciated the effort and energy I put in, a few also had useful constructive criticisms that I will hopefully take well into account.
I was a bit too late to rehearsal today, which was unfortunate, as since the Spring Show, I’ve really been enjoying them again! A quick break in between for dinner, then choral society. Unfortunately Steph was no longer able to make it due to group meetings for her management class, but fortunately we decided to keep our Monday night chat tradition alive. Thea, a friend from Perth, thankfully was still there and I enjoy our chats when walking back.