See fellow blogger’s great description of the event. I figure I’ll write more about the experience than everything I learned, so that I’m not just regurgitating Tyler.[1]
As I told that journalist from an unknown UBC newspaper, the reason I came to university was for the open exchange of ideas, and that Terry Talks epitomizes that exactly. Okay, so a little less eloquently as I waited in line for the free lunch and snacks, and that’s why it won’t make the paper. This 6 or so hour Saturday conference assembled the most creative and aspiring minds of UBC’s own senior undergraduates (for the most part) to give a series of mini-lectures to a crowd of 250 or so in the Life Science Centre. Terry Talks does this annually, but this year, they collaborated with the famous TED talks- the conference that has probably supplied you with the most awe-inspiring speeches on Youtube.
The eager beaver audience, attending class on the weekend, was compromised of many senior undergraduates, alumni, and a few first years. The diverse crew of speakers, though handling different topics, emphasized the importance of sharing ideas in conferences such as these, and coming together for problem solving, whether it be in repainting the image of Africa, ethically using synthetic biology, or outracing pandemics like H1N1. We were serenaded with some lovely Cat Stevens from a speaker who reminded us not to stress out about our “useless” Bachelor’s (Arts students, unite!) and also challenged to question the, forgive the pun, fragmented mosaic structure in Canada. The talks will be available on the website soon enough (Here are last year’s: http://www.terry.ubc.ca/terrytalks/)
I enjoyed meeting a few older students, eating the good food, and of course, the video: the promotion video-making was epic. We did the Mexican wave several times (cellphones in the dark) and played at being Human Dominoes a few too many times, among other goofy things. I can’t believe this conference was free, and am delighted to know that the sharing of ideas doesn’t come at a ridiculous fee on Ticketmaster *cough cough, Vancouver Peace Summit* I will most certainly be making Terry Talks an annual event. You should come too!
[1] I was going to edit this phrase into “regurgitating what Tyler said”, but I think regurgitating a person would be a fantastic image.
Edit: Oops, it was the Ubyssey. http://ubyssey.ca/news/?p=10307
miriam
*gasp* I totally forgot to include the video making! Damn writing things late at night XD
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I loved the human dominoes !!
Just noticed that [2] points to a file on your computer, not on the internet.
wow i’m so skilled.
thnx
Not a problem
But note, you still have a link to it in your footer 
(I’m assuming you removed one in the body already?)
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