March 2008 Archives

Hey all!

After a long long sojourn from blogging, I've finally got another report on life at Olin as a senior -- here my take on some of the big themes!

• I think I can speak for a lot of my class in saying that I'm still a little surprised by how freaking FAST the past ~ four years have gone -- graduation is in a month and 21 days!! Just a couple weeks ago, the Parent and Alumni Relations Office hosted a senior night event for us at Roger's pub over at Babson. The event was called 2008 Hours Till Graduation, to, yes, celebrate the fact that we hit the 2008 hours till graduation mark!! Here are some pictures from the night:

Now that decisions are coming out (congrats to the future class of 2012!), I thought I'd take the chance to blog about how Candidates' Weekend appeared to me, an old sophomore. While last year I worked Design Build, the unevaluated team activity that candidates start out their Saturday with, this year I was a student interviewer.

First of all, let me apologize for my sporadic blogging. It's extremely easy to say "oh, this is a great project! I'll talk about it in my blog!" and then forget to blog for awhile. So one thing I've been meaning to talk about this semester is my Software Design course. I think the course is great because it's the perfect blend of instruction, self-teaching, implementation, and projects.

It also has one of my favorite tools thus far, that I get to experience four times per week- one hour lectures. Both my Software Design class and my Circuits class have one hour lectures. These times are nice because it's really easy to tune in and focus for an hour, and it's enough information that you can keep it in your head without forgetting half of it.

So one of my roommate's parents are in town and we spent the afternoon touring around the Citadel (a major tourist attraction in Cairo) with them. Talking with her parents, who had never been to Cairo before, made me realize how much I've adapted to life here. I no longer worry about basic things like hailing a cab or buying food and I've grown to tolerate a lot of Cairo's more irritating idiosyncrasies like the congestion, smog, and harassment much better. But when I was talking with her dad about living in Cairo and he asked me what I missed from the US while living in Cairo and what I would miss from Cairo once I returned to the US it sort of floored me. I guess I'd thought about it before, but I couldn't really come up with anything to say at the time so it got me thinking.

I've been here in Cairo for almost two months to the day which means, as much as I hate to say it, that I'm almost halfway done with my time here. Realistically I know that the next two months and change will fly by faster than I can really know.

Including:

• Marketing Project Piques Organic Curiosity
• Weekend in Normandy Heralds Historic Reflection
• Don't Stress Out, Career Building is for Americans

The Cold War exhibit, the Caen Memorial, Caen, Normandy.

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