Geeky Weekly » college http://geekyweekly.com My life as a computer / photo / sound / video game / music / movie / gun geek Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:23:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I’m now more offically a college graduate http://geekyweekly.com/2006/im-now-more-offically-a-college-graduate http://geekyweekly.com/2006/im-now-more-offically-a-college-graduate#comments Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:03:55 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2006/im-now-more-offically-a-college-graduate/ Continue reading →]]> I “graduated” about 3 weeks ago, but just because you walk doesn’t mean you are going to make it past your final grad check. Got an e-mail today saying that I had officially graduated and that my degree was now real. Cool, just gotta wait a couple months to get my actual diploma.

CSULB actually had a pretty good on-line tool that would check your transcript against your degree requirements and tell you what you needed. One of my classes got reduced by a unit so it said I was missing a unit, but it checked out okay anyway.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2006/im-now-more-offically-a-college-graduate/feed 5 Graduation Ceremony http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-ceremony http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-ceremony#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:12:11 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-ceremony/ Continue reading →]]> DSC_2798.jpg
Taking my walk. Note the lack of graduation accessories, I boycotted the campus bookstore as often as possible and I had already ponied up $50 for my cap and gown, they weren’t getting another dime.

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My supporters, thank you for your support.

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I’m glad my dad got this shot just as a turned to wave to the above supporters. I’m also glad that that guy felt he had to take a picture of himself the same time his mom did.

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Someone had to get emotional, I wasn’t.

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Ahhh I get it, funny. Instead of giving me a diploma you take the opportunity to try and get me to join the Alumnis.

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Isn’t this a smart looking family?

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And this is obligatory.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-ceremony/feed 0 Graduation Party page up http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-page-up http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-page-up#comments Mon, 08 May 2006 04:04:16 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-page-up/ Continue reading →]]> I’m going for a record of 5 posts today, but I have a dedicated page up for my graduation party up or click on the link in the orange bar below my header. Keep any discussion about the party under that page since I want to hear what you guys want to eat/drink/do.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-page-up/feed 2 Graduation Party Heads-Up http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-heads-up http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-heads-up#comments Thu, 04 May 2006 20:28:29 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-heads-up/ Continue reading →]]> Since I’m graduating in 22 days (I’ll include weekends this time), I’m throwing a little shindig so chances are if you are reading this you are invited I just have to get invitations out. I’m not a huge fan of graduation annoucements so you won’t get those, but invitations will at least be coming in the snail mail. I wonder if postal workers appreciate being called snails.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2006/graduation-party-heads-up/feed 0 Professor Andrew? http://geekyweekly.com/2006/professor-andrew-3 http://geekyweekly.com/2006/professor-andrew-3#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:21:41 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2006/professor-andrew-3/ Continue reading →]]> Not really, more like teacher assistant Andrew. I’ve got a project going at school right now to further develop our Microsoft infrastructure for use in various classes, primarily for teaching ASP.NET. Since I’ve actually been using it in my internship I guess that makes me qualified to give 3 lectures on the subject in the upper division Web class. I’m actually taking the other class that will be using the technology so I’m sure I will be contributing there as well. I need to make a point of posting more often to keep myself off of Nathan’s Dead Blarg Friends list.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2006/professor-andrew-3/feed 7 Textbooks: Save your hard earned money http://geekyweekly.com/2006/textbooks-save-your-hard-earned-money http://geekyweekly.com/2006/textbooks-save-your-hard-earned-money#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:56:09 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2006/textbooks-save-your-hard-earned-money/ Continue reading →]]> Some of you reading my site are in college or at least like to read so this should be a great site for you. It took me one semester to figure out that the bookstore at any college is a corrupt operation explicitly designed to gouge and rip off the students they vow to be serving.

Since I pretty much pay for my own books, I have always tried to save the most money possible when I buy textbooks and get the most back from the ones I do not keep. Here’s a quick list of what I do to cut my textbook costs by up to half:

  • Never sell books back to your bookstore, sell on Half.com or Amazon Marketplace
  • Never buy books from your bookstore unless absolutely necessary
  • Find the lowest price of used and new books on the entire Internet at AddALL
  • Compare that price to your bookstore’s new and used prices, purchase accordingly
  • Take shipping and taxes into consideration, a $3-$5 cost for shipping is offset by no tax being charged
  • Make a spreadsheet to see how much you save!

I think my all time high in savings was close to $200 and I have even sold books for nearly the same or more for what I paid for them.

One thing to watch out for on books that seem to have prices too good to be true is a growing popularity of International editions of books. These are usually printed in India or somewhere and are the exact same book, but they will always be softcovers with black and white print on inferior paper to the US editions. If you don’t mind the loss in quality go for it but I’ve only bought one and will shell out the extra money for the nicer hardcover.

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]]> http://geekyweekly.com/2006/textbooks-save-your-hard-earned-money/feed 2 Defiant return from the black hole called school http://geekyweekly.com/2005/defiant-return-from-the-black-hole-called-school http://geekyweekly.com/2005/defiant-return-from-the-black-hole-called-school#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:08:03 +0000 Andrew http://geekyweekly.com/2005/12/08/defiant-return-from-the-black-hole-called-school/ Continue reading →]]> Well I’m not completely free yet but I’m getting closer. Thanks to Denise and Amy for noticing my absence. Finishing up my labs and papers this week with 3 finals next week. They shouldn’t be too hard and I probably won’t study like crazy, who knows I might pull of another 4.0 semester (I’m a quarter of the way there for sure). When winter break rolls around and I have nothing to do I will definitely be posting here and on other sites more. Who knows I might actually create a post that is somewhat geeky and …weekly.

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