Plans for the coming semester
Lots of planning has been going on these past few days in my head. First, the classes I’m definitely taking: Anal/Dig, CompArch and Discrete. Then things get fuzzy.
I really want to do E-Board. This has dibs on my future time.
Then I’d like to do (Alt + Shift) Econ101 at Wellesley and also Dynamics. I’ve dropped the 24 credit idea at this point in favor of either E-board + 20 or Scott’s circuit design co-curricular + 20 or something that will eat my time + 20. Basically, if I end up not being able to sustain my level of playing Smash Bros. b/c I’m too busy next semester, I’ll be quite happy. I love being busy.
E-board sounds super-exciting to me. Getting to know the ins and outs of this place sounds fantastic. I love this place. I’m told I love it too much. I kind of tend to liken it to perfection in my head on a regular basis. This leads to me being disappointed in the actual state of affairs, which is only insanely awesome. E-Board seems like the place to be if I want to go ahead and make Olin more like my silly perfect vision of it. I just talked to cDellin and am now just more excited.
/me crosses fingers
Meta is being incredibly exciting as per usual. We are currently doing history which means we choose a topic related to Olin, find people who know about it/were here for it, get some documents and tell a sweet story. The kicker is the analysis portion of it. We get to do the Meta thing and use a mental model. W00t! Mel is doing the curriculum from a legal perspective. I’m thinking of doing either the Honor Board or the Honor Code. I’m thinking of setting it against mission statements in a startups or something. Anyhow, all of us had neat ideas. the lovely part is how much overlap there is between them. Man. So exciting. I love this class.
Sorry to people reading PlanetOlin who got to see all of my posts as new ones b/c I changed their labels. Now I know better.
E-Board is a ton of fun. It’s a lot of work but in general it’s actually rewarding in the end, especially if you pick the position you really want most.
It is a lot of work. I can’t emphasize that enough, but you can delegate it and your predecessors have done things to help make it run smoothly and easily, or at least we’ve tried.
Comment by Grant Hutchins — March 29, 2007 @ 1:44 am
I agree with Grant. There’s hardly a more rewarding experience than working on behalf of some of the most incredible students you’ll ever meet.
I also agree that it’s a lot of work. But, you’ve got to spend your time doing something…right?
Good luck.
Comment by Tom Cecil — March 29, 2007 @ 4:05 am