Sean ’12
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I was watching a video this morning, a recording of a presentation from a national conference. And I realised something: I know, sort of, the person that speaker was just referencing. So I dug through my internet archive, and sure enough, I interviewed that person years ago. I got to thinking about it, and I realised I’ve been very fortunate…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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The number of inside jokes I have with the organizers rivals the number I have with even my closest friends. Nobody minded that I was the youngest person in the group by four or five years. It wasn’t awkward that my boss was one of the organizers. They just accepted me…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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And I’m juggling quite a bit at the moment, which means sometimes school doesn’t get the attention it should. I just have trouble putting myself in the right mindset. And when I’m in the right mindset, I have trouble focusing on the work. I have some aversion to actually just doing the work, so…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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I am, during all of this, working steadily at improving the software that I wrote over the summer. And it’s making a slow transformation from software to project. The distinction is that a project consists of several pieces of software, all of which could be used independently of the others. A project tends to also involve other people…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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I was one of the first ones to hit the servers. Unfortunately, it was me and thousands of other people, and the servers went down. It was harrowing and nerve-wracking, but I managed to register. I was one of 5,500 people who registered, selling the conference out in 59 minutes. Last year, it took 5…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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I make life so difficult for myself. I love teaching, and I’m good at it. I’m a rather good writer (or so I’ve been told), and my professors always seem to be impressed by my analytical and critical thinking skills. By all rights, I should be a 3.75 GPA student. But I’m not. Why?…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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Whether it’s Kelly, giving me this job when I first got on campus and serving as a friend, adviser, and mentor ever since, or Joe, offering to be my reference a few weeks later when I was applying to work for ITS, then hiring me using the department budget for his sub-department of ITS when ITS told me they were too full. Whether it’s my bosses…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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She said that we didn’t have to move to Silicon Valley to start the Next Big Thing. And while I disagree on some points (the Next Big Thing takes talent, and lots of it, and the software engineering talent to be found in Buffalo is… lackluster, from what I’ve seen of it), her main message was poignant and largely accurate. It had a particular relevance to me, but I’ll tell you…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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Yesterday was quite possibly one of the top-ten most tumultuous weather days ever. It was absolutely gorgeous around three or so, but by six, everything was gray and windy and wet. There were tornado warnings, and class was let out early so we could all get home safely. And today it picked right back up where it left off…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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I bring this up because I was accused, albeit in a non-aggressive way, of being homophobic by a teacher during a presentation due to a simple communication error on Friday. I was a little thrown, and didn’t really know how to respond. I had encountered so little homophobia in Canisius, it seemed like an idea that was far away…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE…
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