Tim Ginn’s Personal Blog

Dear Mondays,

I am enjoying immensely how as my schedule sits so far you are a thing of the past (at least as courses go). I have a feeling something will change this in the near future (for example some tutorial being introduced, or what not); but, as is, I guess I get to read CD, find cool things like lego robots which assemble Lego cars (made by German Grammar school students), channel surf with StumbleUpon, perhaps watch some Torchwood when the new episodes come out and if I find I have too much time on my hands work on my Microeconomics correspondence course.

P.S. Tuesdays, that’s a nasty trick moving CISC324 after I’d printed my schedule (early last term).

My Lego Robotics kids are awesome. What could be cooler than mentoring a bunch of 9-14 year olds playing with Lego and Robotics (we’re getting the brand new NXT system, too). Today was the first meeting and they watched some of the FIRST Lego League kickoff videos then we had a bit of a Q&A. Tuesdays are actually pretty good since the bus to Sempar passes campus right after my tutorial finishes. Tomorrow at 4:30 P.M. is the deadline for applications for mentors so at that point I’ll know who else is interested in helping. I filled in the Police Check form online so that should be ready in a week or two. There’s another FLL rookie team in Kingston made up of home-schoolers and we’re probably going to get together to do a practice competition before the real one at Calvin Park on November 11th.

Now, to do the less fun task of studying for the Algorithms (CISC365) test.

Well, timetables are up on QCARD for some people (ahead of schedule, too). So, I ran the QCARD Wrapper (which won best in show of the CISC499 projects last year) on it and this is the result:

Fall:

Winter: