HA!

I was bartending an event this weekend for a group of women that (after the summer of conferencing) will be presidents of colleges and universities.. hopefully. Anyway, one of them was quickly very interested in talking to me after I told her I was a computer science major. At bryn mawr anyway, we have anywhere between 1-4 comp sci graduates a year, compared to psyc or anthro with 50+ grads aka: no one is going into computer science in my little liberal arts school. So this lady is talking to me all about what I want to do when I graduate and then she asks me how I think the industry is looking right now, if I think there are tech jobs out there. I tell her about how when I was in high school, working in the grocery store, I worked with people who had been "let go" from their tech/programming jobs and how they all told me I was crazy for wanting to study it in school. Who's laughing now? There are more tech jobs than ever I mean look around! We are in the computer age maaaaaaaaaaaaan! In a class I took this past spring the professor told us that there were very few computer science majors to begin with, and in that section the amount of women was incredibly small. This is all good news for women in comp sci today, because there are more jobs than ever without the same supply of students graduating with the degree = high paying jobs. Yup, I hope that works out for me :)

Nasty breakup

Some people get their daily gossip from perez or tv shows like gossip girl or the OC, but not the technocrat. Obviously I get off on the gossip between Starbucks and Tmobile... It seems as though their breakup isn't going so well. As the story goes, Starbucks broke it off with Tmobile because he wanted to date AT&T because with them they could give away free wifi. Tmobile wasn't going to just let this happen and strung out the breakup, leaving articles of clothing and CDs in Starbuck's truck. When Tmobile came to do a service check she found that AT&T was wearing one of her favorite sweaters!! Yeah, so apparently AT&T was giving away free wifi on Tmobile's equipment- whoops! I still see it as just a bitter breakup and Starbucks and AT&T are the real winners here, leaving tmobile crying by herself.. in the rain.. without a jacket. (if anyone picked up on the whole dane cook thing behind that all I love you even more)

So in the end, it looks like Starbucks will be really giving away free wifi! About time I say!! "Under the new AT&T partnership, Starbucks offers two hours of free Wi-Fi Internet service to customers who have at least have $5 on their Starbucks cards." When I was really into going to coffee shops to do my work it always killed me that sbucks charged an arm and a leg for the service, something like $10 a day or something. Yo, I'm a college student, I don't have the money to pay $10 a day to use internet! But another shop opened up my freshman year, Milkboy that gave away their wifi for free and had trendy hipsters and open mic nights etc. which are always fun. So now where are the Mawrters going to go? PARADOX OF CHOICE ahhhhhhhhhh

PS: yeah, I did make that picture, what about it?

a video for good measure..

This is what it's like to go to bryn mawr. This is a video of May Day, the last of the four traditions of the year. Enjoy..

Bryn Mawr

Ok, I know I've been a little "video happy" lately but I've been watching a lot of youtube. Guess what I came across today? Apparently Bryn Mawr (the school I go to) has been making videos for perspective students, I'm so into them. While abroad I kept trying to explain bryn mawr and what it was about, I think these videos do a pretty good job. Enjoy.

Integrated E-Mail/Calendaring @ BMC

To: shilton

From: Mark Colvson

Subject: Coming Soon: Bryn Mawr College's New Integrated E-Mail/Calendaring
System

Information Services recently completed an intensive review of our current
E-Mail and Calendaring (i.e. Meeting Maker) services, partly in response to
community requests. In late December we received the approval and support of the
senior administration and Board of Trustees of the College to begin a major
upgrade to these systems.

We are now developing an implementation plan to migrate the community from
our current wide range of email and calendar programs to a single integrated
email and calendaring service, with full-featured web-based email/calendar,
campus address book accessible from anywhere, to-do lists, and collaborative
workspaces. The new system will have a powerful server “back end” with much more mail storage space than the current system and continued security and privacy for the College’s data. Deployment will begin for most of us in late spring.
At that time our email and Meeting Maker calendar information, including stored
older data, will begin to migrate into the new system.

For more information about the decision-making process and details about the
software selected, we invite you to read the Proposal submitted to the
President’s Cabinet. We will host a demonstration session at Coffee Hour on
March 21. Feel free to bring your questions then, or email them to either of us.
We will also discuss the new system at the Administrative Office Heads meeting
on February 20, and the Faculty Meeting on March 5. We will post this
announcement and responses to the most frequently asked questions to http://is.blogs.brynmawr.edu/.

Heartfelt thanks to all of you in the community who helped us evaluate and
test the candidate systems. We were gratified to find a strong community-wide
consensus in favor of a system which provided support for both Macintosh and PC
users, while providing sustainability and strong privacy protections for our
email and calendar communications.

Sincerely,
Mark Colvson, Education and Outreach Project Mgr
Janet Scannell, Director of Computing Services

Ohhh! This sounds like fun! Is BMC going to give me something to rival my gmail/gcal pair? We'll see!