EDIT:
Seminars will be held now on SUNDAY instead of Saturday

If anybody who reads this is in the Rochester area or goes to RIT, I will be doing two seminars this Saturday.  One on OpenGL, and one on Ruby.

For those of you that don’t know, I am part of Computer Science House, and CSH does seminars which are pretty much crash courses/tutorials on specific topics.  They’re free of course, and everybody is welcome to attend.

They are both going to be in the software room on CSH as of now.  If you need instructions on where to go, just drop me a line.

My OpenGL seminar will start at 2:00 pm.  Ruby at 3:00 pm, or whenever my OpenGL seminar ends.

Here’s a tentative list of topics:

OpenGL:

• GLUT
• Basic Geometry Creation
• Transformations
• Perspectives
• Matrix Transformations (maybe)
• And more

Ruby:

• Interactive Ruby Shell (IRB)
• Gems
• Features (such as yields)
• HTTP stuff
• REXML (Ruby XML API)
• More…

These are both designed for people with little or no experience on the subjects.  For the OpenGL one I recommend a bit of previous experience with C++.  For the Ruby one, no previous experience is needed except for a bit of programming experience (preferably OO).  To clarify, there will be no overlapping between the two topics :).

I hope I see a good turnout.  Like I said, everybody is invited.

Well, I didn’t get a job at Harris RF after I had a good phone interview and such because currently my GPA is .075 below their minimum requirement.  I find this very upsetting.  I think my friend, Drew, worded it quite well, “It’s one thing to have a [GPA] policy of limiting interviews so that they aren’t inundated, but not accepting someone because of a GPA after you’ve decided you like them is really stupid.”

Well, I also didn’t request to work remotely part-time in the fall for Mastercam in the fall because I was pretty optimistic about getting this job.  I am SOL.  I also refuse to sell my soul to retail because I am worth more than selling iPods at BestBuy and I have too much integrity to sell people garbage at CompUSA that’s marked up at least 200%.

If you are reading this and know of a place near or in Rochester where I can apply to work part-time this fall, or a place I can work remotely I would greatly appreciate it.  Also, I will be happy to do freelance work as well.

I won’t make it through the fall–especially because I need about 40 portfolio prints by the end of fall quarter.

Anyways, I have good news too.  I am really excited about my color science class.  The professor seems great and like he knows his stuff.  It’s going to be a challenging class, but it’s definitely applicable to stuff I want to do after I graduate.  I also think I will enjoy the Imaging Science department a lot.  I am very pleased that I found out about the Imaging Science minor. Who knows, I might even be sucked into going for an imaging science masters after I get my CS degree.

Well, I haven’t gotten cable internet in my apartment, but I think I am deciding not to get it.  Why?  Because I think I will be much more productive and get better grades and get out of the apartment more.

I can always go to CSH or some hotspot to use get my email (p.s. I love CSH internet)

Unfortunately, this also means I will not be putting much work into my personal projects for a while.