Category: College
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sts 321 – another class, another blog
I’m now enrolled in STS 321: Intro to Science, Technology and Society. This is the fourth STS class I’ve taken [311, 331 (Wireless Revolutions) and 331 (Multimedia Writing-W)] and so I’m not all that worried about it. The course outline appears to be interesting and overall is looking at topics I haven’t studied much if…
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texas isn’t ranked?
I’m in my social stats class going over some very basic terms: nominal and ordinal variables. Ordinal variables are one that are ordered, or could be ranked. For example, when a poll asks “how happy are you?”, the answers are ordered: “Very happy”, “somewhat happy”, “neither”, “somewhat unhappy”, etc. The professor then shocked everyone in…
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sts 331 wireless project
For class, I was asked to have my wireless proposal and report online. They may be accessed here. [This entry is post-dated so it is at the top of the page whenever my instructor visits the site.]
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cancelled classes and all-nighters
Sometimes, the news of a weather day comes with great joy. Other times, you’ve been awake since 9 a.m. the previous day working throughout the night on a paper due at 5 p.m. Of course, you could have done the paper before the night before, but that ship has already sailed. So, at 1 p.m.,…
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technology, community and the individual
Social computing is the culture of today’s young generation. Wireless technology, the Internet, SMS and electronics decreasing in size have contributed to the formation of a digital commons that links all people in all places at all times. While these technological advances can improve the culture and the individuals experience of culture, as in the…
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if the romans had pop radio
If the Romans had pop radio, Catullus would be playing on it. This observation was made today after we translated a prose adaptation of Catullus 8. (N.B. I’m in LAT 506 which is the lowest-level taught at UT so it’s nothing groundbreaking…) Puella mea mē nōn amat. Valē, puella! Catullus obdūrat: poēta puellam nōn amat,…