Final Assessment Revisited

While waiting for my FA results (five weeks and 1 day), I came across a very interesting post on AO:

What's the point of the 4-day deadline for the FA, just to annoy us? Can't anybody just buy themselves whatever kind of extension they want by not turning anything in the first time and then re-registering once they're done working on it?

The point of not turning anything in, of course, is so the person doesn't have to wait 7 weeks.

I don't really mind the 4-day deadline. Just the part where anybody can buy themselves an extension. I don't care for that part at all, but can anybody tell me how it isn't true?

That's certainly a very interesting view that did not dawn on me; it's probably because I'm anal about money. Of course, this requires some inside knowledge of how the FA works exactly. Anyways, this problem can be remedied easily by increasing the pool of quality FA assignments--I think the current FA is quite well designed and written.

Stop being so lazy SOA.

SFU Alumni Assocation

The proposed bylaw changes in the May 31 meeting includes changing the purpose of the association, namely:

Original:

The purposes of the Association are:
- To promote and further higher education.
- To foster and encourage the organization and activities of branches and other alumni groups.

Proposed

The purposes of the Association are:
- An engaging and mutually beneficial lifetime link between Simon Fraser University and its community of alumni.

Firstly the proposed version doesn't make grammatical sense. Secondly, why the damn narcissism? Me, me, me, benefit ME! I thought education is supposed to make us better people.

Anyone wants to show up and vote NO with me :)?

Big Porfolio Update

The ETF portion of my portfolio has a gain of $27.87 CAD. I'm pretty sure my Canadian index fund's gains should be enough to cover up the loses I suffered in my US index fund.

Thus for the first time in 2008, my portfolio is back in the positive category :).

Mandarin HNIC stream

I don't know what CBC is thinking. Why the heck would you stream the Habs game over the Internet in English and Mandarin!?!? Isn't the most logical choice French? Would Chinese people suddenly get interested in hockey because they can now understand the commentary? Absurd.

Anyways, I think CBC has been coming up with some pretty neat initiatives on the Internet to encourage participation. Other than this stint of Mandarin HNIC and the cutting of Airfarce, I like what I'm seeing.

FAP Final Assessment Log: Day 5

So I lied. I spent about 2 hours last night editing while chatting with a very mean person. I got quite a bit of editing done then too.

I was supposed to wake up only half an hour later than my usual work day wake up time to catch one later train. Turned out I hit the wrong button on my phone and instead of snoozing I slept until 8:05. By then it was too late to catch the last WCE so I had to take the 160. This turned out okay as I managed to get quite a bit of editing done on the bus.

I uploaded my assessment at 1:30pm today. Time spent since the last post is probably about 6 more hours. Thus in aggregate, I spent about 40 hour on my FA; 20 hours my ass SOA! But at least it is less than some of the crazy posters at Outpost who spent 50 hours on it.


And sweetness; I got a letter saying all my VEE credits are approved :).

FAP Final Assessment Log: Day 4

I am declaring that as of this moment I have completed my FAP final assessment. Add four more hours to the clock please.

I'll spend Monday editing this 36 page monstrosity with 9,500+ words at work.

For some reason I got really paranoid last night after shutting down my computer. I actually got out of bed, turned on my computer back on, and did a backup of my FA to a USB memory stick. Gah. I'm so glad this is almost over.


That is all.