A friend of mine (ThuMM) sent me an email today that got me looking at linkedin.com. I’m now signed up, and will share my experiences with it thus far.
Well, first, what is it? To the best of my knowledge, LinkedIn seems to be a kind of Facebook for people out of college and/or working. It’s [...]
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I don’t have the official salt/pepper stacking record book in front of me, but I think tonight’s performance takes the cake… or steals the bacon… or any other like-saying that would work here and involves food.
Two apparent Patapsco residents (they were walking that way after leaving the DH) managed to successfully stack 8 salt/pepper shakers! [...]
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Today, Friday May 16 from 1pm to 4pm at Flat Tuesday’s.
From http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/digitalstories/2008/04/umbc_celebrates_international.html
On Friday, May 16 UMBC will participate in the International Day for Sharing Life Stories, a day being celebrated around the world through the sharing of stories in gatherings and virtual environments. UMBC students from classes in Media and Communications, the New Media Studio, [...]
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Nice — so, there is going to be an event for getting rid of all that junk we’ve all acquired over the last 8 months.
Donation Day is this Sunday (May 18th) from 12-5 on Erickson Field. It’s sponsored by the Food Bank I’m pretty sure. Bring out non-perishable foods, clothes, books, CDs and anything else [...]
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Just wanted to remind everyone that RSA will be sponsoring Midnight Desert in the Dining Hall tomorrow, Tuesday, May 13th from 11pm to 1am. It’s usually a lot of fun because there is always a big turnout. I find it a great way to relax and celebrate the end of classes - you know, calm [...]
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I know we’re all doing professor evals in classes these days, and those get annoying quickly, but I’m asking for some help from readers to fill out one more. I’m looking for some feedback about UMBC Underground.
Although I’m getting out of here in… snap! 10 days! … I’d really love to hear what people are [...]
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UMBC is currently considering the fast track creation of an Army ROTC program on campus. This would create a Department of Military Sciences, which would be given space on campus, conduct classes for ROTC members, and place military personnel on campus as instructors.
Two campus wide meetings to discuss this plan are tentatively [...]
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Some of you may remember a few weeks ago when I posted about the potential for student orgs to publish public Google Calendars. Well, I want to share some of the other ways Google’s converted me from my usual online tools. I really wish I knew about these a long time ago - hopefully it’ll [...]
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Today - Friday, May 9th - Lambda Chi Alpha will be putting on an Alcohol Education program at 7pm in Commons 331. There will be a guest speaker and alcohol jeopardy. The prize for jeopardy is an iPod Nano and an iPod Shuffle. Hope to see you there!
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The Fee Forum is going to take place today at Free Hour.
It looks like, overall, the proposed fees (that is athletics, transportation and commons fee, student activity’s fee) are going up by 4%. The student activity fee is proposed to stay the same at 78 dollars a semester.
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