Ceaseless Student

As part of my MetaOlin IS, I’m reading through all of the honor board minutes I can get my hands on. The first step was easy; most of the minutes were easy to find on a network drive. That being said they were all organized at different times by different people and even in different formats.

The different formats were easily the most annoying.

Since word documents are slow to load, mutable and otherwise annoying I decided to make everything a pdf. I started out by using PrimoPDF to print to pdfs; however, Zamzar was a much faster solution. This site lets you upload files and then it converts them to another format; super-chouette! Changing names in batches is much easier with 1-4a Rename.

Also, Foxit Reader is much faster than adobe acrobat reader.

So I’ve had this conversation a number of times. The basic premise is that everyone at Olin has to swear loyalty to someone in the class directly above them. The question is: which senior has the biggest kingdom? Please speculate in the comments.

Alt + Shift

I didn’t post yesterday.

So I’m doing a project for Meta about the Honor Board or Code. I’m currently making my way through all of the HB minutes ever. I went into it expecting to find that the code and board had lost some meaning and importance over time. At this point I’m inclined (Alt + Shift) to believe otherwise. From the minutes in 2001:

“Do something clause: violation of the code does not necessarily come before the honor board

Need some guidelines about what types of cases go before the board (e.g., all academic cases); difference may not always be clear. Basic idea that the honor board is the last resort, not the first? -> do something clause instructs individuals to deal on their own before contacting the board.”

This makes me believe that the code was seen as more applicable and the board as less important. That being said, I expect to find a reaction to that where the board becomes stronger. In particular, I need to find when it expanded to 14 people (I’m running off the assumption that it was not half the school partner year). So many years of minutes to chop through. Well y’all will probably get to hear about it again when I make more sense of things.

Why I have a blog:
I was reading lifehacker and I clicked a link. Then I clicked another link on that site. This brought me to a blog on Yahoo that asked the question: “Why don’t young people appreciate the time and effort I put into this blog.” The dude out in about four hours a day and had a blog that was passable at best. He thought it was because young people could never handle doing something like keeping a blog themselves. So here I am. Proving him wrong in that regard by proving him right in the opinion that I’m sure he holds: young people are contrary.
I’ll post again later tonight to make up for the day I missed. That’ll show him.

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.