User: Profli

"The cleanliness of theory is no match for the mess of reality."

Introduction to EG

"The The Impotence of Proofreading" by Taylor Mali

"Life After Death by PowerPoint" by Don McMillan

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

Milestone 1

How Steve Jobs beats presentation panic

"Totally Like You Know Whatever" by Taylor Mali

Final Presentation

Introduction (UAI)

• Working with EG 10+ years
• UG @ Poly: CS
• Freshman Advisor Melinda

• Worked last 10 weeks on project
• Course focus on teamwork
  • Working with different vs same people
  • Working with friends
• Each project has its own backstory: covered briefly by each team in their presentation
• Created and represent their own company
  • Introduce company at the beginning of presentation
  • Few weeks in, pitched initial proposal
  • Progress updates in weeks that followed
  • Benchmarks met twice

• Housekeeping items (course)
  • Last day to flag missing grades
  • Survey
  • Apply to be a TA
  • Kit returns

• Housekeeping
  • Phones on silent or vibrate
  • Preselected order
  • Microphone

Conclusion

• Improved since first presentation: example
• Taste of college: one of five/six classes for freshman
• Stress/frustration = real life
• Science or math? No. Engineering is real-life.
  • Paper: crumpled vs flat
• "The cleanliness of theory is no match for the mess of reality."
• Tacoma narrows bridge: Youtube

Miscellaneous

Strippers and the Oxford Comma