Day 4 - Jun 30 - I Think I Might Like it Here

So I am seriously making this quick as it is 1:06am. Yes, I just said am.

So breakfast was good once again. However, I'm definitely going to have to start cutting down on my portions. This whole buffet style of greasy foods really isn't doing my body any good. We found out our Project House topic, which in brief is a product we have to deign to assist the aging baby boomer population. It can be whatever, so if ANY of you have ideas, please comment and let me know, we'd love to hear your thoughts. I'll give you the actually question when they give it to me in writing. We had another speaker today. This lady is a doctor and is researching ways to prevent Alzheimer disease here at UBC. She said how she really loves working with students and was impressed by our intriguing questions. She gave us her email address if we had any questions in the health care field, whether it be applying for Med school, or doing research work in her lab with her during the summer. I'd say half of the Shads here are interested in health sciences. It's astounding. We were also put into committees today that we are responsible for on top of the house project. I am in charge of "monthbook". In other words, a yearbook. In my group of 14 I am surprised how people know so much about graphic design and layout. I am hoping to learn a few tips and tricks off of them here. By the way, do you know what Dropbox is? My group was trying to explain it to me but it just wasn't clicking. We then went to the Museum of Anthropology, very interesting. They just finished huge renovations. Mom would have really enjoyed this. There were totem poles, canoes, weaved baskets and carvings everywhere! Later in the night, after supper, we had more Shad speaks. Today there were more interesting presentations. Yesterday, this girl gave us a physics lesson on relative something. I was clueless after 30s of her 15 min presentation. People are SOOO smart. Another guy described his experience in some lab, his project was definitely capable of Intel Science Fair. Today, this boy my age who calls himself the "biggest nerd you will ever meet" , introduced programming to the rest of us. Not as many Shads as I had thought knew what computer programming was, only about 5. He described specifically Scheme, a simple program that no one uses, but thinks that people should. He described it as having a good interface, and a good place to start learning. It was interesting hearing familiar terms from home of C+ and C++ and Java. I felt so smart, even though I actually had no clue know what he was talking about. He self-taught himself all that. And our PAs seemed extremely impressed and were even asking him computer programming questions! This boy is a wealth of information. I was talking to him yesterday, and he is one of the tens of Shads who have UW on their mind. I spent my evening the common room again. Chatted with a few people while also learning how to play the drums!!! I can hold the simple basic rhythm pretty well :) I talked to a guy who just graduated and is actually going to UW for systems designs engineering. So, I told him about what your experiences was Matt and where your first coop job was. He said that was why he had chosen Waterloo-for it's coop. He chose systems because it was "inter-disciplinary and the most general engineering".

So ya, after speaking with him and listening to a girl named Julie play the song "Billionaire" on the keyboard, I started my post. We decided we may perform the song for the talent show coming up. Check out the lyrics, I think you would agree it goes with the whole entrepreneurial theme. Oh, and guess what? I was poking fun with another Asian, who was questioning me on my true Asianness as I am what they call me here, "mixed" (everyone adores my freckles!). He asked me if I take a shower at night or in the morning. I responded night. He said, good for you.... I think us Chongs could all understand why. We shared quite the laughs.

-Carolyn