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January 06, 2004
2004
This new year brought me a nice dose of the flu. I hope this isn't a sign of my health for the rest of the year.
Here's to a healthy new year, everyone! In addition to healthy, how about happy, peaceful, successful, loving, caring, blessed, prosperous, lucky....
Posted by Phil at 10:11 AM | Comments (1)
January 19, 2004
Office
This morning, I came into my office at RIT and found a leaky ceiling. Luckily it was against the outside wall and didn't do any damage to the computers or peripherals. My desk and the mounds of papers got wet, but nothing that was very important did. Soon after I arrived and started to clean up, someone came in and told me that some pipes busted in or around the office above me and their whole office was flooded. I lucked out. What's quite interesting is that a bubble of water formed between the paint and the wall, and gradually fell down the wall over the course of the day. I wish I had my camera to take a picture.
And yay for free office supplies and white boards!
Posted by Phil at 04:22 PM | Comments (0)
11th Hour
Boo to spending 11 hours on campus. *sigh*
Posted by Phil at 09:51 PM | Comments (0)
January 20, 2004
Marathon Woman
Congratulations to Janice, who completed a full marathon over the weekend for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Bermuda. After finishing the 26.2 miles, she even walked a half-mile back to her hotel. Impressive.
Posted by Phil at 08:35 PM | Comments (2)
January 23, 2004
RIT, Retention, and Simone's Plan
I received word, recently, about some proposed changes to RIT to improve the university primarily with regards to student retention. It's been a problem here in recent years and it seems the "suits" are doing anything they can to make it better. Today, my department, Software Engineering, had an information session, alerting the students to the plans brought about by Dr. Simone, our president. There is general agreement in our department, including me, and, as I now know, from other departments that these proposed changes, the details of which I heard and read about today, are not the solution to the stated problem, and will negatively change RIT as a whole.
One of the major changes is as follows:
Development of more flexible alternative versions of selected existing degree programs in order to shorten time-to-degree. Degree options with more free electives and fewer required academic credits (approaching the State requirement of 180 hours) will be implemented. Every college will have to give up something in their required curriculum. The maximum required number of co-ops will be three; students can elect a fourth or fifth co-op. As a result of these changes, co-op students will have the opportunity to graduate within four calendar years.
Even though I'm graduating in four short months, I am very concerned about these proposed changes. I don't want the reputation of this school to be compromised because it dumbed down the curriculum requirements and eliminated co-op requirements. RIT's name will be on my diploma. I came here for the co-op program and career-oriented focus knowing I'd be challenged for five years. In addition, I don't want these proposed solutions to affect the solid program which I think the Software Engineering department has because these changes affect the entire university.
Whether you are a current, prospective, or former student, if you have an opinion on this matter, let this man know. We're going to try to organize students first in our department through the Soceity of Software Engineers then hopefully expand to the college level.
Posted by Phil at 05:15 PM | Comments (1)
January 26, 2004
Golden Globes Quote
The best quote I heard from the bit of the Golden Globes that I had on in the background last night was part of Mary Louise Parker's acceptance speech:
Janel Moloney said she'd give me $1000 if I thanked my newborn son for making my boobs look so good in this dress.
--Mary-Louise Parker
I have a habit of getting sucked into watching awards shows. I'm not sure what it is; I think I'm partially fascinated by the whole "Hollywood" thing. I wouldn't mind being involved with making some movie magic. I'd love to work for Disney, Pixar, or ILM. If you represent one of said companies, please look at this.
Posted by Phil at 09:15 PM | Comments (0)
January 28, 2004
On MacGreggor's
After a few hours at MacGreggor's after a long day at school:
Jen: See, you did need "some dinner."
Me: Yeah, I really did.
And by some dinner she meant a couple beers. I did have food, too, and a good time.
Posted by Phil at 04:48 PM | Comments (0)
ZIP is Doomed
After the onslaught of the MyDoom virus, RIT says:
Effective immediately, all .zip files are stripped from the ITS mail systems (Exchange, OSF, VMS.) Zipping a file and sending it as a .zip attachment is no longer viable. Before mailing a zipped file, you need to rename the file to something that is not filtered by the RIT mail system.
What the hell? I can't send or receive ZIP files anymore? Grr!
Posted by Phil at 04:51 PM | Comments (0)
