Conspiracies (Part 2)

Conspiracies (Part 2) – Hop! Emergency update at Monday late that’s almost Tuesday! More things that happen in an Operating System’s lab!

Also, I checked lab A5S101… and they covered the “ceiling door” with a panel! I’ll have to ask my friend Will (a guy who had a section called “conspiracies from UPC” [what a coincidence…]) if he still has the photo.

Desing Engineering

Desing Engineering – Hi again! Another week here!

The Software Engineering 2 exams were about designing software for invented scenarios like “software to manage a gym/club/whatever”, using UML patterns. Those exams always had the same formula “We want to keep register of members, with their data… also activities, with their name… each activity has 1 to X editions, each edition 1 to N users, …”. Those problems were not much funny, like Data Structures and Algorithms, where each semester “Johnny, Roy and Steffy” had some problem reducible to some NP-difficult problem, to be solved by the students.

Selling l’Oasi

Selling l’Oasi – Hi again! Here we are.

When we sold l‘Oasi we set up a table in the middle of the Faculty Plaza, with piles of magazines, while we went down across the campus on top of an Ikea shopping cart shouting that l’Oasi was on sale. We also camped outside the computer rooms, where all the students went between sessions to check on-line their schedules, before we had smartphones.

Cleaning Party

Cleaning Party – ¡Hi again! Today I’m talking about “El Xollo”, the Civil Engineering’s Faculty magazine, as “l’Oasi” is from Informatics and “Distorsió” from Telecommunications. Few people have seen them, as they appear once a year, they hit the magic button for “make magazine”, and then disappear. Their mascot is a “water drop” (?), that once was drawn on cardboard for promoting the magazine. But nobody takes permanent care of that cardboard figure, and it goes from hand to hand traveling the campus, clubs and associations. Today it sits in the Civil Engineering’s Canteen.