Last night, I was listening to my iTunes collection and turned on this song by Train. I think it's my favorite on the album.

A majority of my day was spent finishing up on the Ethics Presentation my group had to give today. We spent 2½ hours on finishing it up. We went through a second walk-thru on it. The professor saw the group commandeer an empty classroom to work on the project. We timed the walk-thru to be 27 minutes - 7 minutes too long. So, we had to sit down and figure what to cut out. We got it done. I have no clue how long our presentation was, but we kept it short and simple for a broad topic like Internet fraud. The best part was a last minute thought by my groupmate, Mike (and this is a different Mike than He Who Shall Not Be Named and should be out of my life now (I hope)). Mike remarked that Internet fraud is just a new way of defrauding people. That reminded me of one of the Computer Ethic gurus mentioned prior in our class. Her thought was the same as Mike's. So, we quickly incorporated her thoughts into the presentation. The professor loved it! She was ready to ask us about that question at the end of our presentation, but we usurped her with our conclusion. Our only flaw was a typo in the slide. After the class, she told us we got an A on the project. We put a lot of work into it and it paid off.

Just before the real presentation, we had a problem. The projector in the classroom died! We spent 20 minutes having Ben, one of the School of Computing's gophers, get a new projector. The backup project was broken as well. Dr. Reed took this as a chance to make announcements to the class. Chris, the ACM advisor, was with Ben at the time, so he came in the room to assist Dr. Reed in the announcement. They dragged me into giving the announcements as well, since I'm a student that in one way or another has had experience with all the events being announced.

The only other thing I did today was go to the colloquium. Today's topic was about haptic feedback applications for education and training. It was interesting, but not a topic I'd research.

[♪ Listening to: "I'm Not Waiting In Line" - Train]

Posted by Shawn at April 4, 2007 8:10 PM in Schooling.