Category Archives: Contributors

Oh, September… you’re early! I haven’t even gotten properly dressed yet!

Posted on September 5, 2011 by sara

I’m going to save the seemingly obligatory “What I Did This Summer” essay for a little later and jump right in to this poor, dilapidated, ignored-for-seven-months blog. (As you can see, I’ve signed on for another year of Blogsquadding, though hopefully this will be a year with a little more regularity on the posting front.) So, [...] Continue reading →

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Commodifying the Experience: Cuba

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Aly

Long time no see, UBC Blogsquad! I’m going to contribute to the list of Blogsquadders who have been travelling during their summer vacation. My choice of destination for 3 weeks? Cuba. Yes, Cuba, this great island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, the land of Revolutionaries such as Fidel Castro. I wasn’t in Cuba [...] Continue reading →

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Not Much Busier, but Stress++

Posted on February 2, 2011 by sara

This morning started out comically good compared to most other mornings. Generally, I take one of the express buses along to get to school which is fine so long as you leave early enough. With a 9:00am class, “early enough” is generally around 7:30 to 7:45- an hour and a half early when you live [...] Continue reading →

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TODO revisited!

Posted on January 28, 2011 by sara

  In a semi-rare moment of flagrant voyeurism, I’m going to post up my current to-do (or as computer types call it, TODO) list spanning the next week… just in case anyone is curious about the exciting, assignment filled life of a CS major. (I’ll admit that I have a perverse interest in looking at [...] Continue reading →

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Trains, TODOs and a Curious Sense of Calm

Posted on January 28, 2011 by sara

Just remember that when YOU openly sneeze everywhere, it only looks gross, not strangely provocative. Today was a culmination of many events, one right after the other.  Now that they are all done, I feel a strange sense of emptiness and I’m not quite suer what to do with myself. I mean, I have lots [...] Continue reading →

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Flirting With Role Reversal

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Aly

So I actually wrote this entry on the bus last Monday, but I never got around to posting it on Blog Squad until now. Over the January 14-16th weekend, I went to the retreat as a member of the BOO Crew (also known as UBC Orientations: squad leaders and O-Team). Although I attended many informative, [...] Continue reading →

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Things I Love ___day

Posted on January 14, 2011 by sara

I’ve been grumpy as all get out today due to the routine morning cattle car (i.e. a ride on pretty much any bus that leaves from 4th and Alma), a distinct lack of coffee and two hours of mind-bogglingly boring lectures. All this piled on top of my baseline crabbiness generally turns me into a [...] Continue reading →

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First Week

Posted on January 7, 2011 by sara

Image is Life as a Wookie by Nate Beaty Well, another rousing Friday night in the life of a computer science student… though my quandary of boredom is not related to academic overload (for once). My boyfriend is a professor at an art school (I shall not say more, or else I’d be forced to [...] Continue reading →

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Goals Revisited

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

A couple of posts ago, I mused about some things that I wanted to accomplish this term. However, the first week of class is nearly over and I have gotten a better feel for how my classes, schedule and life in general will be structured this term, and I wanted to revisit the plan (or [...] Continue reading →

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First Day Back

Posted on January 4, 2011 by sara

Well, it’s Day 0 of 2010W2. Or is it 2011S? Or the spring term? Or… I never know how to properly refer to the terms. Anyways. My first class is CPSC 320, “Intermediate Algorithm Design and Analysis”. I’ve heard murmurings that this is the worst/hardest class of a CS student’s entire UBC career, though I [...] Continue reading →

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