http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:01:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I was a panelist again earlier this week, this time for a seminar for first-year students who do not have an advisor yet.  Let's see, at Rice, I was on a panel my senior year to give the juniors advice on senior design projects, and at MIT, I moderated ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2009/10/17/on-finding-an-advisor/ Got some mail from an airline carrier yesterday letting me know that my frequent flyer miles were going to expire soon.  This was news to me since I do not even remember applying for a FF# with that carrier, but I shrugged that off to a faulty memory (or perhaps ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2009/09/10/mistaken-id/ For those of you not at MIT, something extreme happened Thursday: MIT email servers went down.  I first noticed around 6:30 am (I happened to be up from being woken up to give someone a ride, not from staying up, by the way), and what surprised and impressed me was ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2009/07/26/what-email-going-down-teaches-you/ Just submitted my Masters Thesis to the department.  Whew. Just have to say that thank goodness the EECS deadline is today (as opposed to the MIT May 8 deadline).  I gave the thesis to my advisor on 5/2, he was gone for a week at a conference, and we only really ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2009/05/22/masters-thesis/ Visit weekend just finished up, and luckily for me, I was not organizing it this year, meaning I got to enjoy the free food and subsidized activities while letting someone else do all the actual work of getting the food and figuring out what would make 90 or so prospectives ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2009/03/10/one-year-already/ Before I start, note that you will probably find much more of the same or similar information that is in this post on the web via a simple Google search, but hey, you stumbled on this page, so here's my two cents on applying to graduate school.  Plus, maybe some ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2008/11/05/applying-to-graduate-school/ I am currently typing this post from my fresh, OS-reinstalled Dell Inspiron laptop.  For those who have been lucky and/or smart enough to never have their hard drive crash, let me recount my story.  It all started last Friday night (8/22) when I was surfing the web (trying to scout ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2008/09/01/blue-screen-of-death/ So I'm one of the orientation co-chairs for the EECS GSA (graduate student association), and we just had a post-mortem (sounds morbid) with the department this week, meaning... minus a few wrap-ups and discussions, orientation is officially over. I was a peer academic advisor during Rice orientation, so I know ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2008/08/29/eecs-orientation/ Wow, I just finished the MIT Learn-to-Sail class, which is awesome. Nice day outside, and not too sunny so you don't get baked on the Charles River. For those who don't know, the class basically consists of volunteers helping newbies learn the sailing pavilion logistics and sailing techniques, ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2008/06/22/learning-to-sail/ My big sister got into town last night - she just finished med school and will be here doing her residency at Tufts. Coincidentally, it will take her five years to finish residency, which, assuming very hopefully that I get my PhD in the average six years it takes for ... http://eecsblogs.mit.edu/blog/jwu/2008/06/11/crazy-hot-weather-and-the-necessity-of-ac/