Enter the HU: Skins Challenge Anyone ?
I was heading home to continue working on my class projects; afterall, I am a graduate student. I had picked up some travel necessities, since I am going abroad, and was about to walk into the subway when I got a call. My prof at the HU wanted me to come to this presentation, the "WMP Skins Challenge"
At first I was about to say I had work to do but after all the prof have done for me, I knew I was obligated to check this thing out. So after getting off the subway, I started walking to where the event was held on campus. It was in the audiotorium on left side of Blackburn. I looked around and saw some familiar faces but I was w0ndering would this be a waste of time.
Once the presentation started, I knew it wasn't a waste of time. Get this, for doing media player skins you get a free next gen video game console (provided you are a semifinalist). You all know what console it was. I wonder why so many of us (college students) slept on this opportunity. After all, the code to make the skin was free online and plenty of sources to help.
As usual, I saw several beautiful women but this chapter of the blog is not about beautiful women. Instead, it was something else I witnessed. These college students had put their heart and soul into creating some truly innovative skins. Not simply the push play and stop skin but truly unique. On top of that they were showcasing there video games they created for senior projects. (I still wonder why the Tute sleeps on video games with respect to computer science; come on my Tute professors, get with the times)
What made it a bigger deal was the high school students sitting in the audience. The college students presenting were hyping the areas of engineering and science to the high school students; specifically they were hyping the computer science major! I never felt so proud to be part of the HU.
It was during this presentation that I realized my fam (not literally family but fam as people who can identify with my situations) at the HU work just as hard as I did at the Tute during undergrad. Computer sciene can be a killer major but its rewards go beyond academics. These undergrad student could identify with my struggles, such as the long hours of coding and sleepness nights.
Computer science may sound scary and torturous but one thing I realized from my days at the Tute and computer science, I believe that after experiencing computer science, a person has a new perspective on life. Difficult times in life are not scary as you have been through dire struggles with your major. Long and sleepless nights are nothing. Things that seem impossible to create are not impossible, it just nobody thought of how to make it possible.
And you know what, from hearing the presentations that day, I think those HU seniors realized it too.
I was heading home to continue working on my class projects; afterall, I am a graduate student. I had picked up some travel necessities, since I am going abroad, and was about to walk into the subway when I got a call. My prof at the HU wanted me to come to this presentation, the "WMP Skins Challenge"
At first I was about to say I had work to do but after all the prof have done for me, I knew I was obligated to check this thing out. So after getting off the subway, I started walking to where the event was held on campus. It was in the audiotorium on left side of Blackburn. I looked around and saw some familiar faces but I was w0ndering would this be a waste of time.
Once the presentation started, I knew it wasn't a waste of time. Get this, for doing media player skins you get a free next gen video game console (provided you are a semifinalist). You all know what console it was. I wonder why so many of us (college students) slept on this opportunity. After all, the code to make the skin was free online and plenty of sources to help.
As usual, I saw several beautiful women but this chapter of the blog is not about beautiful women. Instead, it was something else I witnessed. These college students had put their heart and soul into creating some truly innovative skins. Not simply the push play and stop skin but truly unique. On top of that they were showcasing there video games they created for senior projects. (I still wonder why the Tute sleeps on video games with respect to computer science; come on my Tute professors, get with the times)
What made it a bigger deal was the high school students sitting in the audience. The college students presenting were hyping the areas of engineering and science to the high school students; specifically they were hyping the computer science major! I never felt so proud to be part of the HU.
It was during this presentation that I realized my fam (not literally family but fam as people who can identify with my situations) at the HU work just as hard as I did at the Tute during undergrad. Computer sciene can be a killer major but its rewards go beyond academics. These undergrad student could identify with my struggles, such as the long hours of coding and sleepness nights.
Computer science may sound scary and torturous but one thing I realized from my days at the Tute and computer science, I believe that after experiencing computer science, a person has a new perspective on life. Difficult times in life are not scary as you have been through dire struggles with your major. Long and sleepless nights are nothing. Things that seem impossible to create are not impossible, it just nobody thought of how to make it possible.
And you know what, from hearing the presentations that day, I think those HU seniors realized it too.
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