I've secretly always wanted to do this - iTunes shuffle
I love reading these about people I know well. Stolen from my cousin, Chris:
How am I feeling today?
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
Will I get far in life?
Grow Up - Simple Plan
How do my friends see me?
Well, Well - Nelly Furtado
Where will I get Married?
I Want My Life - Smile Empty Soul
What is my best friend's theme song?
Untitled - Simple Plan
What is the story of my life?
Square One - Coldplay
What was high school like?
Blacking out the Friction - Death Cab for Cutie
How am I going to get ahead in life?
One Step Closer - Linkin Park
What is the best thing about me?
Kick-Off - Relient K
How is today going to be?
The Thing's We'll Never Know - Taking Back Sunday
What is in store for this weekend?
Unopened Letter to the World - The Ataris
What song describes my parents?
Voice Mail #5 - Rent
My grandparents?
Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
How is my life going?
Five is a Four Letter Word - Lostprophets
What song will play at my funeral?
Fancy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
How does the world see me?
Do It - Nelly Furtado
Will I have a happy life?
Haters - Hilary Duff
What do my friends really think of me?
Hello - Evanescence
Do people secretly lust after me?
One By One - Simple Plan
How can I make myself happy?
My Last Breath - Evanescence
What should I do with my life?
Pieces Mended - The Used
Will I ever have children?
Awkward - Lostprophets
What is some good advice for me?
Styrofoam Plates - Death Cab for Cutie
What is my signature dancing song?
Hump De Bump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
What do I think my current theme song is?
All Systems Go - Boxcar Racer
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
White Christmas - Hanson
What type of men/women do you like?
Hey - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Only a few of these didn't creep me out! So good.
Blue moon
Every once in a blue moon when I check my AWStats, I remember that some people actually come to my blog to read things. And so I become motivated to write again.
I think I've finally figured out a schedule for the semester that allows me to spend my free time equally with myself, boyfriend, and friends. Hopefully I can start up some arts and crafts again and have pretty things to blog about.
Other than that, I've been steadily working on my client's website as well as the new website for AOE (to be released by next Wednesday!)
Ok, well I just wanted to stop in to say hey and hope that you continue to check back for the day that I have something more interesting to blog about. :)
SWE Middle School Outreach
I'm putting this entry in the "AOE" category because I never would have participated in the SWE Middle School Outreach program if I had never joined AOE.
Twice a year, the Society of Women Engineers at Georgia Tech puts on a program called Middle School Outreach in which they bring one hundred middle school girls to Georgia Tech so that us women engineers (or computer scientists) can let them know that engineering is a wide open opportunity for them to pursue in their education.
I thought was just the most amazing idea because when I was in middle school I had no idea what an engineer was, and I'm all about getting more girls into engineering and technical sciences, so I jumped on the opportunity to help out. From 9:30am to 2:00pm today, the girls rotated through five different activities designed to expose them to different engineering fields.
Once such activity was the Steady Hand Game: designed to expose the girls to Electrical Engineering, the girls built a circuit using diagrams and circuit pieces to build a game like Operation where you have to steer a metal ring around a wire that is hooked up to the circuit without letting the ring touch the wire thus lighting up an LED. This was the activity I got to lead. It was so much fun listening to the girls ask such intelligent questions about the circuits. They were so interested in what we were doing.
The girls also got to make their own lip gloss, make their own silly putty, make balloons float, and do something involving marbles and paper towel rolls (not sure what that was).
During lunch we had a panel discussion where each of the volunteers explained their majors and what you can do with them. Then we opened up the floor to questions, and these girls had SUCH good questions and they had SO MANY. They were genuinely interested in learning more about engineering, and I was just like, where did you guys come from? And they were just so adorable. It was my favorite thing to do today.
Anyway, I just wanted to express how impressed I was by these girls. They were so sweet. After the program was over, I passed a couple of them walking down the street to find their ride. I didn't even have my name tag on anymore and they were like, "Thanks Miss Amanda, we had so much fun!"
AWWW.
Working concessions
Today I worked concessions at our GT baseball game with nine of my sisters as one of our fundraising activities (the other fundraising activity being Cheersport, the world's largest cheerleading and dance competition - please don't ask about my experience with that as I'm trying to block it out of my memory).
I had tons of fun today hanging out with some girls that I don't really know that well yet. I worked the fountain drinks, so by the end of the day my hands were sticky from soda syrup and my feet were somehow covered in nacho cheese (ok, not covered), but there were good times to be had just hanging out, listening to Jennifer's Disney ring tones, and dancing to each of the songs that our baseball players apparently get to choose for when they come up to bat. HA. So funny, some of those songs.
Anyway, now that I'm done with my obligatory activities for the weekend, I can work on finishing up our new website for AOE. I hope to have it finished by Wednesday. Look out for a preview within the next few days!
Preview: AΩE Website
Sup. Although the website is almost finished (still waiting on some content), it's still not up to my perfectionist standards, so I thought it would be fun to post some images of its progress.
Top-half of the homepage. Yes, that is a picture slideshow, by popular demand.
Footer. This small picture of it is kind of useless, huh? We'll keep it for the
sake of completeness.
But grandma, what shiny navigation you have! Why yes! I created my very
own 2px by 50px gradient background!
The script for the navigation drop down was actually taken from Dynamic Drive.
I obviously didn't write it because, well, it throws a billion errors if you have
script debugging enabled in your browser. :)
Um yeah, I totally drew that dolphin using my
Wacom Graphire Wireless 6x8-inch tablet.
The footer! Do note the drop shadow.
So that's that. I'm pretty excited about it, and so is everyone else it seems. I'm actually more excited about coding the backend of it. I can't wait to do the members only section and give everyone their own LOGIN. ZOMG everyone is so excited.
A list, of sorts
I am a very goal-oriented person, and as such, I am a list-maker. I like all of my tasks to be organized and sitting in front of my face in such a way that reminds me of their importance and provides a way for me to visually acknowledge that I have accomplished something.
February 06, 2009 :: Friday
I love reading these about people I know well. Stolen from my cousin, Chris:
How am I feeling today?
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
Will I get far in life?
Grow Up - Simple Plan
How do my friends see me?
Well, Well - Nelly Furtado
Where will I get Married?
I Want My Life - Smile Empty Soul
What is my best friend's theme song?
Untitled - Simple Plan
What is the story of my life?
Square One - Coldplay
What was high school like?
Blacking out the Friction - Death Cab for Cutie
How am I going to get ahead in life?
One Step Closer - Linkin Park
What is the best thing about me?
Kick-Off - Relient K
How is today going to be?
The Thing's We'll Never Know - Taking Back Sunday
What is in store for this weekend?
Unopened Letter to the World - The Ataris
What song describes my parents?
Voice Mail #5 - Rent
My grandparents?
Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
How is my life going?
Five is a Four Letter Word - Lostprophets
What song will play at my funeral?
Fancy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
How does the world see me?
Do It - Nelly Furtado
Will I have a happy life?
Haters - Hilary Duff
What do my friends really think of me?
Hello - Evanescence
Do people secretly lust after me?
One By One - Simple Plan
How can I make myself happy?
My Last Breath - Evanescence
What should I do with my life?
Pieces Mended - The Used
Will I ever have children?
Awkward - Lostprophets
What is some good advice for me?
Styrofoam Plates - Death Cab for Cutie
What is my signature dancing song?
Hump De Bump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
What do I think my current theme song is?
All Systems Go - Boxcar Racer
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
White Christmas - Hanson
What type of men/women do you like?
Hey - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Only a few of these didn't creep me out! So good.
Posted by Amanda at 7:58 pm in random
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Blue moon
February 19, 2009 :: Thursday
Every once in a blue moon when I check my AWStats, I remember that some people actually come to my blog to read things. And so I become motivated to write again.
I think I've finally figured out a schedule for the semester that allows me to spend my free time equally with myself, boyfriend, and friends. Hopefully I can start up some arts and crafts again and have pretty things to blog about.
Other than that, I've been steadily working on my client's website as well as the new website for AOE (to be released by next Wednesday!)
Ok, well I just wanted to stop in to say hey and hope that you continue to check back for the day that I have something more interesting to blog about. :)
Posted by Amanda at 6:05 pm in life
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SWE Middle School Outreach
February 21, 2009 :: Saturday
I'm putting this entry in the "AOE" category because I never would have participated in the SWE Middle School Outreach program if I had never joined AOE.
Twice a year, the Society of Women Engineers at Georgia Tech puts on a program called Middle School Outreach in which they bring one hundred middle school girls to Georgia Tech so that us women engineers (or computer scientists) can let them know that engineering is a wide open opportunity for them to pursue in their education.
I thought was just the most amazing idea because when I was in middle school I had no idea what an engineer was, and I'm all about getting more girls into engineering and technical sciences, so I jumped on the opportunity to help out. From 9:30am to 2:00pm today, the girls rotated through five different activities designed to expose them to different engineering fields.
Once such activity was the Steady Hand Game: designed to expose the girls to Electrical Engineering, the girls built a circuit using diagrams and circuit pieces to build a game like Operation where you have to steer a metal ring around a wire that is hooked up to the circuit without letting the ring touch the wire thus lighting up an LED. This was the activity I got to lead. It was so much fun listening to the girls ask such intelligent questions about the circuits. They were so interested in what we were doing.
The girls also got to make their own lip gloss, make their own silly putty, make balloons float, and do something involving marbles and paper towel rolls (not sure what that was).
During lunch we had a panel discussion where each of the volunteers explained their majors and what you can do with them. Then we opened up the floor to questions, and these girls had SUCH good questions and they had SO MANY. They were genuinely interested in learning more about engineering, and I was just like, where did you guys come from? And they were just so adorable. It was my favorite thing to do today.
Anyway, I just wanted to express how impressed I was by these girls. They were so sweet. After the program was over, I passed a couple of them walking down the street to find their ride. I didn't even have my name tag on anymore and they were like, "Thanks Miss Amanda, we had so much fun!"
AWWW.
Posted by Amanda at 5:50 pm in AOE
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Working concessions
February 22, 2009 :: Sunday
Today I worked concessions at our GT baseball game with nine of my sisters as one of our fundraising activities (the other fundraising activity being Cheersport, the world's largest cheerleading and dance competition - please don't ask about my experience with that as I'm trying to block it out of my memory).
I had tons of fun today hanging out with some girls that I don't really know that well yet. I worked the fountain drinks, so by the end of the day my hands were sticky from soda syrup and my feet were somehow covered in nacho cheese (ok, not covered), but there were good times to be had just hanging out, listening to Jennifer's Disney ring tones, and dancing to each of the songs that our baseball players apparently get to choose for when they come up to bat. HA. So funny, some of those songs.
Anyway, now that I'm done with my obligatory activities for the weekend, I can work on finishing up our new website for AOE. I hope to have it finished by Wednesday. Look out for a preview within the next few days!
Posted by Amanda at 6:48 pm in AOE
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Preview: AΩE Website
February 23, 2009 :: Monday
Sup. Although the website is almost finished (still waiting on some content), it's still not up to my perfectionist standards, so I thought it would be fun to post some images of its progress.
sake of completeness.
own 2px by 50px gradient background!
I obviously didn't write it because, well, it throws a billion errors if you have
script debugging enabled in your browser. :)
Wacom Graphire Wireless 6x8-inch tablet.
So that's that. I'm pretty excited about it, and so is everyone else it seems. I'm actually more excited about coding the backend of it. I can't wait to do the members only section and give everyone their own LOGIN. ZOMG everyone is so excited.
Posted by Amanda at 8:31 pm in AOE
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A list, of sorts
February 25, 2009 :: Wednesday
I am a very goal-oriented person, and as such, I am a list-maker. I like all of my tasks to be organized and sitting in front of my face in such a way that reminds me of their importance and provides a way for me to visually acknowledge that I have accomplished something.
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A list of personal goals that are more likely to be achieved if I write them down:
- Play more video games. Seriously. As a Computer Science major at Tech, I live in a world of gamers. I hate not being able to talk intelligently on a wide variety of games. It's always, "Oh, I've heard of that! I haven't played it yet though." Yes, I've played more video games than the average girl, but it's not nearly enough to keep up with the boys. Not yet, anyway.
- Watch more movies. For some reason, when I was growing up, I always considered watching TV and going to movies to be a waste of time. I believed that I could be more productive by doing other thing such as having my own website in sixth grade. Now that I'm older, I view films as pieces of literature that have come to life. I'm always up for a good story. I have so many movies to catch up on.
- Read more literature. Love books. Always have, always will. I want to read all the classics and everything modern and everything in between. I always push back my reading time because a lot of times I feel guilty for enjoying an activity that is not related to school or work.
Posted by Amanda at 10:05 pm in life
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