College & Scholarship Application Seminar

Posted by Nolan on May 11, 2008 0 comments

As part of a personal project, this Friday, May 16th at 6:00 PM is a college and scholarship application seminar I am organizing for interested high school students in the Century H.S. library. Visit the link at the top of the page or click on the flyer below for more information. It should be a lot of fun, as there will be senior panelists from all different majors available to answer your questions in addition to the tips in the presentation. For those of you that aren’t able to attend, I should have the presentation notes and a video available a few days afterwards.

Carnegie Mellon Trip Day 4

Posted by Nolan on April 26, 2008 0 comments

Well, let’s try this. Here’s Day 4′s set, coming right at you from Flickr. Enjoy!

Carnegie Mellon Trip Day 3

Posted by Nolan on April 26, 2008 0 comments

Finally, for those of you interested, I have some pictures and comments from my last two days at Carnegie Mellon. I think it was a very worthwhile trip, and there are a number of things that I couldn’t have taken pictures of. The people there are truly interesting.

Randy Pausch\'s Influence Still Lingers

A View From The Upper Floor Of The University CenterRandy Pausch Book Presentation

A presentation by the co-author of Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture” book that documented all of his thoughts going into the presentation, pretty cool! Almost half the crowd had gone to the actual presentation. For those of you that haven’t seen it, visit this link for the YouTube of it. A nice tradeoff for missing Carnival week. :)

A Vex-ish Robot Testing Out The Robotics Course

One Mac iSight camera, one mini-ITX, one Vex robotics kit, and a whole lot of wires and coding later, they finally have a competition robot!

College Admissions Counselors Talk…on MSNBC

Posted by Nolan on April 23, 2008 2 comments

My older brother forwarded me this video about the changing world of college admissions, from the view of the admissions staff themselves. They make some good points, but the scrolling bottom bar also has some good information too. Do you agree with what they mention? Let me know in the comments.

Escalating School Schedule

Posted by Nolan on April 22, 2008 0 comments

As the school year starts winding up and down at the same time, I find it more and more important to keep my wits about me throughout the activities I’m involved in. To that end, my posts will be a little more sporadic than usual until the end of May. Thank you everyone for checking up on my blog thus far, and I will be sure to keep you updated as time passes by.