100 Fun things to do Your Junior Year at VT as a Female Computer Science Major
- Don’t
‘officially’ room with your roommate from last year
- Do a
Highlander: Endgame countdown for 50 days
- Become
an undergraduate teaching assistant for CS1044 and fall in love with it
- Take a
large group of friends to dinner then to see Highlander: Endgame at the
7:15 show on opening day
- Take
more friends to see the 9:30 show on opening day
- Take a
soon-to-be boyfriend to see movie a week later for our first date
- Try to
install Red Hat Linux… and manage to after many hours and a very helpful
friend geek and several removals of the hard drive
- Mentor
a reading group of freshmen and even go hiking with them
- Spend
a Saturday hiking to the cascades with friends
- Start
to collect soda can pop tops again
- Take
your first honors class
- Volunteer
to be in an awareness skit of minorities in the department for a faculty
meeting… and have my favorite line cut in the final presentation
- Take
the dreaded, scary Operating Systems… and drop days before the drop date
- Learn
that I really don’t like UNIX and it REALLY doesn’t like me
- Get a
scholarship and trip to beautiful Cape Cod for the Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing
- See
Cape Cod, the JFK Memorial, the Beach, downtown Cape Cod, and go on a
Ferry ride where we have to pay for food
- Discover
the joys of Michael Moore
- Make a
point to watch the Survivor ending
- Yell
at friends for being idiots and not wearing their seatbelts
- Volunteer
at the elementary school with SWAT kids and the AGC girls… and decide that
you absolutely love it
- Meet
boyfriend’s family… more of the family than you thought you’d be meeting
- Go to
the Wed night professionalism thing early just to be able to watch
Simpson’s with some of the guys
- Work
on a semester long project for an educational computer science digital
library and do most of it in the last half of the semester… and turn in a
giant report
- Finally
start getting your card stamped at the coffee house
- Go see
the Kind set up… and practice… and do a dozen sound checks.. and finally
play a few songs
- Vote Green (go Ficus!)
- Shake
your head at the pitiful state of the election
- Discover
the joys of TV Funhouse
- Attend
the grad Winter commencement
- Open
Christmas presents at the coffee house
- Play
logic games and drawing games at a better coffee house
- Get an
amazing grade (108%) in Professionalism and wish you could transfer extra
credit to other classes
- Fall
madly in love with Harry Potter
- Finally
get back into honors!
- Write
a story that is so anti-business that the whole English class loves it…
even if they don’t understand the ending
- Write
a story that is so historically Scottish that the whole English class must
be tactful in reviewing it
- Take a
cool Advanced CW class with a very cool teacher
- Discover
Italian Sodas while at Stats homework sessions (You’ve been here 6 times already,
I’m not serving you again!)
- Have a
great meeting with department head and organization leaders and decide how
to build a CS community
- Meet
your boyfriend’s friends and have fun with them
- Freak
when Main Egg gets repainted and giant holes are made in walls
- Eat
the best sub you have ever eaten in your life… and fall in love
with those Strawberry Shortcake ice cream bars
- Become
an undergraduate teaching assistant for CS1704 and actually get to grade
and do demos
- Have a
nametag competition... and win, even when your roommate thinks she can
change the rules!
- Don’t
even buy a ring… after all, I’m never graduating
- Organize
the AWC secret pal gift exchange
- Take a
small group of friends to go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show with you
- Actually
attend two Hokie football games… and we won both!
- Another
Birthday party at the same Japanese Steakhouse
- Co-head
the Hardware committee at AWC Career Day… again
- Third
annual Career Day… another huge success! With better T-shirts this time
- Fall
in Love with Andy’s Buffet (mmmm sushi!) until they close down
- Listen
and Watch as the beloved Capitals make it all the way through game 6 of
the Stanley Cup Playoffs
- Go to
the Outback Steakhouse for ‘research’
- Don’t
go to ring dance
- Host
another Graduate Tea… and forget to tell Alba to buy the tea
- Go to
see Ralph Nader speak and be inspired
- Go see
Tiffany in concert and try not to cry when she sings wonderful ‘I Think
We’re Alone Now’ and have the time of your life
- Design
a kick-ass electronic, table-top restaurant system for ordering, paying,
and more called e-Waiter (doesn't everyone want an e-Waiter?)
- Decide
that you cannot stand corporations and business and management. And that
you’re glad you can’t stand it
- Decide
what you really want to do for the rest of your life… for now
- Go
through trials and tribulations with your HCI group, then give up and
still come out with a great project
- Discover
the Joys of That’s my Bush!
- Take
your boyfriend to his first acapella concert… and try to make him enjoy it
despite the Gap aspect
- Discover
the joys of Owens pasta place
- Attend
a really cool IBM Etiquette dinner
- Enjoy
more Outback food, then finally present and finish e-Waiter
- Decide
to stay on campus for the whole summer for classes and research
- One
word: CITIDEL (www.citidel.org)
- Grin
and bear it and take Operating Systems again… with much fear in your heart
- LOVE
HCI class
- Decide
that you really love the graduate culture and experience
- Apartment
hunt and sign your first lease for your very own place
- Realize
you will never, ever become a systems programmer and the Memory Management
program should die painfully after 6000 lines of code
- Two
words: GATOR BOWL!!!!!
- Discover
the joys of DVD’s
- Come
to terms with the fact that you will never get to travel anywhere in this
world
- Have
your group of friends ignore you and go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show
with your boyfriend only but still have a great time
- Interview
with many companies and still not get a job
- Lose
my little brother *hugs, kiss, I love you!*
- Get
offered several jobs but turn them down to do research
- Decide
that you will never, ever work for Proxicom
- Decide
to go to graduate school here
- Discover
the joys of heated restrooms when your car breaks down and then have a
run-in with a mean state trooper
- Go to
the Take Back the Night March… and have it get rained out by a LOT of rain
- Turn
21 and go out for drinks… legally (who cares if it took half an hour to
finish a single Sex on the Beach?)
- Take a
class on Irish Lit-er-Irish Catholicism
- Learn
that fork and join isn’t all bad… no wait, it is!
- Love
Linux solely for xjewel
- Find
really obscure songs on Napster (Zoobilee Zoo, Naked Boys Singing, etc)
- Join
Upsilon Pi Epsilon and realize you are very, very glad you did (even with
sexist shopping remarks)
- Go see
the great Bob Dylan in concert
- Make a
point to watch the Survivor II ending
- Smile
when my parents give me flowers for the first time (and dried ones at
that!)
- Gain a
new little brother
- Be
inspired by a woman mathematician professor studying some of the great
minority in the math field
- Help
out at the CS department Spring commencement
- Realize
there are a whole lot of people out there you’ll hate… but that the world
really isn’t so bad to have to put up with them
- Rearrange
the room into an odd but actually nice arrangement
- Realize
that after 3 years, you're really going to miss Main Eggleston... and your graduating friends *Hugs John!*
There are 100 because '00 is the year I was at Tech as a junior
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