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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Orientation 2009
Hi, I'm Anthony, and I just started at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley as a part-time MS Software Engineering student! I'm in the Technical track of this two-year program, and can't believe the semester has officially started! After finally adjusting to life as a working - college student (again). The days have been long, and the nights have been even longer. I often wonder if I still have what it takes to "carry that weight" of school, work, and family; and I guess I have yet to find out. I think I finally can make time to write up this blog.
As a part time student, I only take one class at a time (in 7 week intervals), the semester, it's Software Foundations. On my first day of class, I was pretty surprised at the setup -- the video cameras and remote campus setup was quite amazing. There is even a push-to-talk microphone on the desk, and if you press it, the video camera in the room would adjust, zoom in, and focus to your position; I thought this was quite neat. Whether or not this really helps a person learn or not, I am not sure (I guess having a video camera in the room discourages sleeping); however it hits home something that I felt from Carnegie Mellon from the start, that they really aim to inspire and innovate.
I saw and felt this pretty clear in the three day orientation we had before classes, three days to meet and get to know your future professors, classmates, and also other faculty.
The three day orientation was quite interesting (though I would have to admit that by the end of every orientation day, I was dead tired). I think everyone likes to talk about the LEGO castle building activity (and why not?), but I thought the public speaking 101 was the most interesting activity done. The task was simple : to take a childrens book and read it to a particular audience with a given time constraint. I found the time to talk to faculty and professors on a person to person (rather than student to teacher) level quite refreshing. It made me feel like Carnegie Mellon was a school I wanted to be a part of, rather than just attend.
That's all I have to say now. With the full swing of the semester about to start, let's hope I have time in between school, work, and family to write on this blog. Thanks for reading!
posted by Anthony Tang @ 3:14 PM
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