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Computers designed like brains
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Nature often supplies us with great ideas for engineering. Leonardo da Vinci drew concepts of flying machines based on observing birds in motion, centuries before they were successfully built. George de Mestral came up...
Here come the cyborgs
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With the recent release of the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, my mind has turned to the upcoming options for our cyborg futures. Though the augmented reality experienced by Deus Ex’s protagonist is still...
The patience of job hunting
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Chapter One:
Eager but ripe with confidence, having been reassured along my four years of university my fancy new degree along with my being a trilingual would have companies banging at my door with...
Rise of the GPA
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From a young age we are indoctrinated with formal grading practices, and for that reason it is quite impossible to imagine a world without grades. Sometimes grades serve as motivation to do well in...
You’re doing it wrong
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Why are you in university?
I heard a number of answers when I asked students this question. They ranged anywhere from “to figure out what I am doing with my life,” “to get an education”...
The ‘white picket fence’ model
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When I graduated from high school, I was a snot-nosed 17-year-old kid with no purpose, no direction and no idea of what I wanted to do with my life. Knowing this, there was no...
Things I learned while earning my degree
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The following is a list of sage-like advice I would like to pass along from one human being to another, on the topic of undergraduate studies. These, ladies and gentlemen, are some of the...
