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Have attended three internship interviews in the past two days. Will not blog about the interviews until I have a chance to catch my breath. Also, I don't want to spoil my chances of landing any internships, or get pre-dooced if you will. For now, let me just say that the interviews have been an eye opener. I got to see different firms/ organizations that very clearly expected different things from their interns. More next week.
Meanwhile, CS4253 awaits. I've actually got several googles for CS3214. The latter is a compulsory module in my course and we actually learnt quite a bit (nothing from the lecturer I assure you), so I'd recommend anyone who's looking for advice and is reading this post to go for it. Be sure to get a reliable team though, else the module will make it seem like the Apocalypse has come (actually, even with a fab team, one may still experience the feeling). As for CS4253, well... prepare to put in long hours.
Long and painful hours.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal, wondering if there's some better framework to use.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal, wondering if there's some better framework to use, while frantically IMing your team mates to see if they've made progress.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal, wondering if there's some better framework to use, while frantically IMing your team mates to see if they've made progress plus praying for a messiah to arrive and deliver a proper report into your lap.
I swear, if anyone needs help in dispelling the glamourous aura surrounding the field of consulting, then by all means take this module. It'll thoroughly disabuse you of your misconceptions, faster than you can say "hot shot consultants have all the babes". What they get are eyebags, throbbing headaches, uncontrollable spasms and twitches, IM nicks that are variations of "some1 pls keel me" and a burning desire to well... burn down something. Ugh.
Elsewhere in the world:
- Sociology prof designs a system Qualrus to help him grade sociology essays. Honestly. I bet within 3 or 4 batches of students, everyone would have gathered enough information regarding how the system works, producing stellar essays that are designed for the software to grade. That or some enterprising artsie would have hired a nerdy hacker to obtain and reverse engineer the application. Who knows, then there'll be silent copies of software to generate essays that Qualrus will award full marks to. The artsies should rebel. Why are they paying school fees for a software to grade their essays? And how was Qualrus tested anyway? Was it tested based on student essays? Whose logic does it adopt? The professor's? So now it's not only subjective, but also inflexibly subjective? Somebody should fire the professor.
- Also, men are found to spend more on video games than music. Well, this is certainly true for me, at least since I got my XBox. One reason I can give is that music files come in much smaller sizes. Easier to get over p2p applications. Why buy them? Not that I do it of course. Ahem.
- Finally, how to blog anonymously. If that seems too troublesome, I offer a better solution: Don't. Use a pen, paper and a locked drawer. Never worry that your boss will find out that you're bad-mouthing him. Lacks the thrill of publicizing your rants, but if you want to play, then don't whine about anonymity.
Meanwhile, CS4253 awaits. I've actually got several googles for CS3214. The latter is a compulsory module in my course and we actually learnt quite a bit (nothing from the lecturer I assure you), so I'd recommend anyone who's looking for advice and is reading this post to go for it. Be sure to get a reliable team though, else the module will make it seem like the Apocalypse has come (actually, even with a fab team, one may still experience the feeling). As for CS4253, well... prepare to put in long hours.
Long and painful hours.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal, wondering if there's some better framework to use.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal, wondering if there's some better framework to use, while frantically IMing your team mates to see if they've made progress.
Long and painful hours wandering from journal to journal to journal, wondering if there's some better framework to use, while frantically IMing your team mates to see if they've made progress plus praying for a messiah to arrive and deliver a proper report into your lap.
I swear, if anyone needs help in dispelling the glamourous aura surrounding the field of consulting, then by all means take this module. It'll thoroughly disabuse you of your misconceptions, faster than you can say "hot shot consultants have all the babes". What they get are eyebags, throbbing headaches, uncontrollable spasms and twitches, IM nicks that are variations of "some1 pls keel me" and a burning desire to well... burn down something. Ugh.
Elsewhere in the world:
- Sociology prof designs a system Qualrus to help him grade sociology essays. Honestly. I bet within 3 or 4 batches of students, everyone would have gathered enough information regarding how the system works, producing stellar essays that are designed for the software to grade. That or some enterprising artsie would have hired a nerdy hacker to obtain and reverse engineer the application. Who knows, then there'll be silent copies of software to generate essays that Qualrus will award full marks to. The artsies should rebel. Why are they paying school fees for a software to grade their essays? And how was Qualrus tested anyway? Was it tested based on student essays? Whose logic does it adopt? The professor's? So now it's not only subjective, but also inflexibly subjective? Somebody should fire the professor.
- Also, men are found to spend more on video games than music. Well, this is certainly true for me, at least since I got my XBox. One reason I can give is that music files come in much smaller sizes. Easier to get over p2p applications. Why buy them? Not that I do it of course. Ahem.
- Finally, how to blog anonymously. If that seems too troublesome, I offer a better solution: Don't. Use a pen, paper and a locked drawer. Never worry that your boss will find out that you're bad-mouthing him. Lacks the thrill of publicizing your rants, but if you want to play, then don't whine about anonymity.
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