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Innovation @ UWaterloo – 2010 ECE Design Symposium
The annual UWaterloo Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Symposium took place today at the school’s Davis Centre in Waterloo. Having had my turn at the Design Symposium last year, I was really interested to see what students have come up with this time. I had a chance to look around at the projects and talk with these students and I am really impressed with all they’ve done. There was a ton of innovation on display today.
I had a great time talking with all these bright students. I spent so much time talking to them that I only got around to seeing about 50% of all the booths! It was really interesting to find out how to put their systems together and I learned so much from the short exhibition time.
Read on to see some of the projects.
Tài Hǎo Le! – Ruminations on Chinese 101
Today I had my last Integrated Chinese 101 class. It was great! Tài hǎo le! (Great!)
Ken and I took the non-credit course from the Confucius Institute at Renison College (UW). We learned several basic Mandarin phrases and sentence structure. By the end of the course, I could write a page long letter (in Chinese characters) to our instructor. I was really impressed by the amount that I learned! Of course, it’s all very basic, but definitely a great start.
Finished
Finally, my undergrad time at UWaterloo is done. I’m still waiting on the marks from two of my classes, but otherwise everything is good so far. All my exams seemed to go pretty well except for 429 Computer Structures, which seemed to have questions on the most obscure concepts in the class! Let’s just say that I’m hoping for a significant bell in that class.
It feels strange to be done a chapter of my life which lasted a long 5 years. Good luck to all my friends with their new jobs or endeavours. I hope we can all stay in touch.
Got my degree, got my iron ring, got my orange crush.
So what’s next? I’ve got some time off between now and June when I start work. Aside from a Florida trip, I’ll be working on few projects and hobbies to keep me busy. There’s some iPhone app development that I’m finally hoping to get around to, as well as some website development for my Dad. Then there’s learning photography with a new dSLR that I’m pretty excited about. It seems like it should be a pretty relaxing time, but not having school to keep me busy leaves me wondering “what am I supposed to do now?”