In response to Islam

I’m gleefully tagging along to the newest trend of blogging about useful/ important things. This is better than most of the trends I’ve seen lately (aka, attention girls: tights are not pants).

Addressing the division of teams thing-

iFoundry is all about the real world, right? Yes, academia is nice, but often, that’s not what real engineering is like. So in the spirit of the ‘real world’, however cruel, do you really think picking a project and going along with it is how it works? Although I have little exposure to the ‘real world’ (::cough:: freshman ::cough::), I hardly believe that’s how it works. No, you’re in a group of engineers, given a vision and have to discern what exactly you want that vision to be. Part of that process is convincing others that your idea is the best, compromising with them. After all, getting what you want (and think is right, hopefully) is an art form. Better yet, it’s a subject to be studied and learned. If we’re allowed to be idealistic here, then I’d even venture to say that the project could/should encompass something everyone wants. That’s success in its truest form, isn’t it? Basically, I think the way groups are picked should stay the same.

As for the communication thing? iFoundry stretched itself a bit too far. We need to find/create one forum for communication, and if Islam has an idea for it, I would love to hear it.

Rainy Days = Longer Blogs

"Hey, man."
"What?"
"It's midterms already."
"Oh. Yeah."
"That means we only have two months in the semester left."
"Wow. That's pretty soon."
"Yep."
"Wait. . . we've only been in school for a month and a half."
"What? Jeeze two months is in FOREVER."

And so it goes. Time is going quickly and slowly at the same time. Figure that one out, Physics.

At least iFoundry is helping to pass the time. Some of the other chairs and I have been meeting with the iFoundry people to address our concerns and questions with the program. That's what I enjoy about being in a pilot program, coordinators are eager for criticism and any sort of input. So when, after a meeting, a professor had not only listened to my advice, but utilized it, I almost died of happiness. Right there.

We're doing two separate projects now, one for each of our corporate sponsers. I'm doing State Farm instead of IBM because I simply can't resist them dangling the words 'freshman' and 'internship' (used together) in front of me. Well, I'm actually interested in their project, too. Plus there exists a chance that this project is actually useful, and they'll change their HR website thing after our input. If you can't tell already, I like being heard.

The iCheckpoint is coming up soon, soon, soon. Next Wednesday, in fact. My superawesomefantastic group is prepared, though. I'm excited for the video one of the people in our group is making for the 'identity' part of our project. It should be a nice break for everyone after all of the presentations.