Bryan called me and told me earlier that today Randy Pausch passed away from complications due to pancreatic cancer. Carnegie Mellon has a lovely article on their main site today about him. It’s terribly sad. I’m just glad he was able to give and record his last lecture as well as the amazing feat of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘carnegie mellon’
We’ll miss you, Randy Pausch
Posted in being a grown up, tagged carnegie mellon, randy pausch on Friday 25 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Musings on Carnegie Mellon
Posted in academics, being a grown up, the past, tagged ap exam, carnegie mellon, carnival, college, pittsburgh, randy pausch, sleeping bag weekend on Thursday 13 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you know me personally then you know that I graduated from Carnegie Mellon last May. I’ve written about it a bunch of times (click the tag down there on the right that says “Carnegie Mellon” and you’ll see what I mean) and naturally it’s responsible in a large way for who I am. I [...]
Quite awesome.
Posted in oddity, pondersome riff, reading, tagged beer, carnegie mellon, elizabeth haydon, j. k. rowling, philip pullman, robin hobb, robin mckinley, stephenie meyer on Friday 7 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What’s quite awesome, you say? Many things. Firstly, The Golden Compass opens in theatres nationwide today. I’m so excited! We’re going to see it tomorrow at some point (because we’re lame and we didn’t go at midnight because we’re grown ups now and have ‘responsibilities’… tosh. We went to the midnight shows of Harry Potter [...]
Someone discipline me
Posted in motivation / productivity, whining, writing, tagged carnegie mellon, distractions, facebook, napping, procrastination, tin man on Tuesday 4 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have been pretty bad lately. Bad as in doing a lot of very productive things around the house but none of which are actual novel writing. I’ve opened the novels (yet not the main document) and twittered, but only twittered around (you know what I mean by that, don’t you?) and then closed them [...]
The internets.
Posted in being a grown up, internet, tagged carnegie mellon, domain, google, internets, nanowrimo, techy stuff on Friday 30 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I forget how savvy I am with teh internets (haha) compared to a lot of people. I’m NOT an expert — LET ME REPEAT, NOT AN EXPERT — but I sure know a hell of a lot of things. Like HTML. Like what PHP is, like what a MySQL database is… how to edit [...]
Randy Pausch & Carnegie Mellon
Posted in feel good, the past, tagged aww, carnegie mellon, inspirational, professor, randy pausch on Friday 12 October 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot about Professor Randy Pausch lately, one of the bazillion professors at CMU I never had during my 4 years there as a student. (One of the reasons I’m sad I graduated; but then again…) Essentially, here’s the rundown on who he is and what he’s done lately to be newsworthy. [...]
The duality of Facebook
Posted in internet, the past, whining, tagged carnegie mellon on Thursday 6 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… being its ability to allow people who haven’t seen each other in a long time to reconnect… or stalk one another.
I am somewhat guilty of the latter. I haven’t really stayed in touch with folks I knew in high school. Vaguely, rarely, perfunctorily. I had a busy freshman year of college — the year [...]
My story
Posted in academics, pondersome riff, the past, tagged carnegie mellon, college, creative writing, english, george lucas, j. k. rowling, star wars, ursula k. leguin on Wednesday 16 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Originally written as my 85Broads.com “My Story” in May 2007.
As a writer and reader, I take autobiographical portraits a little too seriously. I’m not going to do the David Copperfield version, but I’ll likely come close. This is, as far as I can write it, the path that led me to my chosen avocation: creative [...]
Only one more day of classes…
Posted in academics, theory, writing, tagged carnegie mellon, fun, irony, tear, yay on Thursday 3 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am exhausted.
Today was my CAS Presentation of my thesis, “Girls Who Save the World: The Female Hero in Young Adult Fantasy.” It was both a presentation and a competition. There were six student presenters from across pretty much every arts/humanities discipline combination there is. The presentations were really, really good. I didn’t win one [...]
Oh, crap. It’s March.
Posted in food, motivation / productivity, ranty rant, reading, the past, tagged carnegie mellon, robin hobb on Tuesday 6 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another weekend spent doing anything but what I’m supposed to be doing. I keep telling myself: it’s just about mid-semester. (March 8th.) It’s okay. I have plenty of time to catch up and crack down on the workload to finish the semester—and my college career—with a bang. It’s all right, I remind myself. The [...]
