Hi to all of you!  Be sure to send this in to Michael Teitel (information below) and indicate that you are a member of my course.

First Annual
Honors Capstone Celebration 
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at Macaulay Honors College

Macaulay Honors College is proud to announce the First Annual Honors Capstone Celebration. This day-long Celebration provides a forum for all senior University Scholars to present their capstone honors projects. Seniors in all disciplines are encouraged to participate, and faculty and other representatives of the Honors College and the City University, as well as family and friends, are also invited.

There are two main purposes of the Celebration: to highlight excellence in research by Macaulay students; and to provide a forum for honors undergraduates to communicate their research findings and creative work.

Presentations may be in any form appropriate to the work; excerpts from theses, posters, exhibitions, performances, models, works of art, etc., are all welcome. For those whose majors don’t include a separate capstone project, tutorials about a research methodology or a new technology are also welcome. Each student will have a maximum of 10 minutes to present his/her project and may use whatever format s/he deems most appropriate.

All capstone projects, of whatever form, are expected to show originality and quality of research; to show ethical and responsible research; to extend University Scholars’ involvement in research design and execution (i.e., go beyond work completed for a class paper or project).

All interested seniors – and we hope that means everybody! – should submit an abstract describing their research (maximum: 250 words); this may have already been done in response to the “Thesis Query,” in which case the same paragraph may be used again. Each submission should include the following information:

• Name, college, and email address of student
• Full title of project
• Paragraph description of project (this is the abstract proper)
• Type of presentations (e.g., powerpoint, performance, poster)
• Name, department, and email address of faculty advisor
• Name of Macaulay Advisor
• Any equipment needed

This event is free and open to the public. All Macaulay students, faculty, family, and friends are invited. 

All queries and submissions should be sent by 5 pm, Friday, April 24, 2009 to the Assistant to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Michael Teitel: michael.teitel@mhc.cuny.edu.

Hey everyone, as most of you probably know, I’m goign to be presenting at the Brooklyn College Thesis Conference as well.  I’d like to invite you guys to attend my lecture, and any others you’re particularly interested in.  They will be held (as far as I know) in the Woody Tanger Auditorium in the Brooklyn College Library.    Here’s the schedule (their class is MUCH larger than ours);

6-May   Wednesday — Sciences
3:30 PM Introductions
3:35 PM PERRIN, GREGORY <——-THAT’S ME!  I APPARENTLY KICK OFF THE WHOLE THING 😀
3:55 PM RISON, NAHSHON
4:15 PM BOHMSTEIN, NINA
4:35 PM AFROZ, SONIA
4:55 PM Break
5:05 PM JALLOH, DALANDA
5:25 PM BRASSE, NIKITA
5:45 PM GLASSMAN, ANN
6:05 PM SINGH, SEAN

11-May  Monday– Humanities
3:30 PM Introductions
3:35 PM POLTORAK, MOSHEH
3:55 PM MULQUEEN, TARA
4:15 PM DOBROWOLSKI, NAOMI
4:35 PM GAVIN, AARON
4:55 PM Break
5:05 PM HOUGHTELING, SAMUEL
5:25 PM JOHNSON, JHONELLE
5:45 PM BELL, MOHAN
6:05 PM KEANE, MICHAEL
6:25 PM WEVER, DAN

I will try to get a copy of the event brochure so I can list everyone’s topics, in case there are any you guys are particularly interested in.

-Greg

Take a breath and relax a bit now that you have gotten this far!  Please remind your advisor that you should have his or her comments back by our class on April 22.  I will give you my comments at that point as well.  In the meantime, you should read it over, catch errors, and extend parts that you see need development.  Then you will have two more weeks for final revisions and getting it into the hand-in ready state.  Have a  great break!

Hi everyone,

Sorry, this post may sound completely abnormal but I just needed to vent my frustrations on the writing part of the thesis.

As I sat down to write my thesis for the upcoming deadline 2 weeks ago, I just didn’t realize how time consuming it could be. First, I guess I should clarify that while I have been working on and off the thesis since semester started, the past couple of weeks has really been the period that I have done some what I consider my REAL, concrete work. But now that I am in the midst of writing the paper (even as I write this post) I think I have seriously underestimated the time it takes to write the paper. I should have been forewarned by the book we have been using in class but for some reason I just did not see it coming. I have been promising myself that I’ll be done with a certain section of my paper for the past 2-3 days and guess what? I am still working on that same section, not because I did not work on it for the past couple of days but because there is just SO much information I have collected. I did not notice how much data I had piled on the various segments of the paper. I suppose I should be grateful that I have all this great information, which I am but its making writing the paper very difficult. Right now I have such a jumbled mess inside my brain. I know the points I need to make but just writing it all down on paper/computer is taking forever and I am getting very impatient and frustrated. All these different sub-topics are pulling me in different directions while I hasten to get all my ideas down before I lose track of them in my mind. This process is making me want to scream in frustration!!!!! 

I think I should stop there and get back to the paper.

By the way, good luck with your drafts!

Thanks-

Nandini

I wrote an article about Superheroes as a kind of brainstorm for my superhero section. I thought you guys might be interested.

http://thejessejack.blogspot.com/2009/03/caped-critiquer-my-analysis-of-american.html

or on the Brooklyn College Excelsior Website:

http://tinyurl.com/cplcyv

– Jesse

Hi everyone, as you know, the Surveillance Societies: What Price Security Conference that Dean Tomasch and I are organizing will take place April 24-26.  We will have 50 or so panelists over the course of the three days and additional folks attending sessions, and need help with steering them around.   So this note is to see if you are willing and able to do this for any (or all!) of the days.   Volunteering will also allow you to attend parts of the Conference that you are interested in .  Here is the website for your information–and of course, there would be no payment for you.

Here is an article on an honors student at Rutgers who is researching apocalypse in comics, FYI.  

It would be worth contacting him.

http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2009-03-02.9289810626/article.2009-03-04.0072966723/article_page_view

Hi Jesse, how was it?  Worth seeing?

Uh oh, someone may beat me to the punch and created my dream course:

http://www2.colum.edu/course_descriptions/52-2725J.html

Oh well…

– Jesse

Hey all,

I thought you might all apprecaite this.

http://graphjam.com/2009/03/01/song-chart-memes-spam-use/

I agree that this is pretty much the only use for spam.

– Jesse