Here's to another crazy day
Recently, Balto is covered under a closed layer of ice. Snow has fallen, melted, and coalesced into a cracking, slippery, hard cake-icing-like blanket.
Another crazy day.
After lunch, I had to do a presentation of half a dozen project ideas for students' course projects in Taylor's "Computer-Integrated Surgery 2" in my PI's absence. The students kept their pokerfaces under a barrage of prime ideas from a couple of researchers here... they must be tough vis-a-vis the incessant displays of brillance around them. Or maybe they were just tired.
Late lunch, then another event - "FACEBOOK 101: Demo Day - The New 'Face' of the Web". In an intersession course, students had developed a bunch of Facebook applications all revolving around video and photos, and today was demo day. They dispersed around a bunch of laptops in the lounge area upstairs and showed off what they had invented and implemented during those three weeks.
Afterwards, another PhD student approached me with yet another project idea we could co-mentor in the afore-mentioned CIS2 course - so back to PowerPoint to whip up another inspiring slide, after discussing how much is too much for a semester project. At Hopkins, students regularly have to sign NDAs about their engineering projects.
Just when I believed the day would be over, my desk neighbor approached me and reminded me of today's dinner outing. So a bunch of colleagues started moving, avalanche-like, towards a nearby dinner bar. Astonishingly enough, a few of them are smokers, as it turned out afterwards.
And, I got myself into the vortex of classes here... or seminars. Finally, after so many years, medical computing science (after high school, initially I contemplated studying that) and I finally meet in terms of actual courses.
Another crazy day.
After lunch, I had to do a presentation of half a dozen project ideas for students' course projects in Taylor's "Computer-Integrated Surgery 2" in my PI's absence. The students kept their pokerfaces under a barrage of prime ideas from a couple of researchers here... they must be tough vis-a-vis the incessant displays of brillance around them. Or maybe they were just tired.
Late lunch, then another event - "FACEBOOK 101: Demo Day - The New 'Face' of the Web". In an intersession course, students had developed a bunch of Facebook applications all revolving around video and photos, and today was demo day. They dispersed around a bunch of laptops in the lounge area upstairs and showed off what they had invented and implemented during those three weeks.
Afterwards, another PhD student approached me with yet another project idea we could co-mentor in the afore-mentioned CIS2 course - so back to PowerPoint to whip up another inspiring slide, after discussing how much is too much for a semester project. At Hopkins, students regularly have to sign NDAs about their engineering projects.
Just when I believed the day would be over, my desk neighbor approached me and reminded me of today's dinner outing. So a bunch of colleagues started moving, avalanche-like, towards a nearby dinner bar. Astonishingly enough, a few of them are smokers, as it turned out afterwards.
And, I got myself into the vortex of classes here... or seminars. Finally, after so many years, medical computing science (after high school, initially I contemplated studying that) and I finally meet in terms of actual courses.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
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