ONE NIGHT STAND!

For those of you who don’t know about Tech's workload let me sum it up in one word “Painful". The homework, projects, tests and exams are very tough and frustrating. The week before the finals which we call "Dead Week" is basically a week of no homework and time dedicated only to studying for the finals. This week is very low and the campus is literally dead. Everyone is back in their rooms preparing themselves to face the ever so hard final exams.

In order to help the students to remain healthy Tech hosts its annual one night stand. This event is held during the Friday of the dead week in the CRC (campus recreation centre). On this day the CRC has all its facilities open till 4 am. Featured events include an Ultimate Frisbee tournament, a Dodge ball tournament, 3-on-3 Basketball tournament, Table Tennis, Poker, Halo 3, Scuba Diving and Soccer. For all those who are tired of studying long hours and those who want a break from their books. This event hosts several tournaments for the students that take place till 4 am. Not only is this a good change for the students mind but attractive prizes can be won like an iPod, LCD TV’s and digital cameras. 

For all those students who are planning to pull all nighters for the finals must definitely use this event as a change and have a good time. I will be attending The One Night Stand for sure and I hope to see you all for a fun and exciting night.

-Abhi 

GT spring class scheduler!!!

While checking my facebook wall I found several posts saying “an easy way to schedule classes for spring 2010". At first a few of my friends and I had to go on to coursecritique.com and search GPA's for all our Professors and then check what timings he or she teaches that class. After that to make an excel file plotting all our class timings. This long process was very tiring and frustrating. So to help all your readers from going through what I had to, here is the link for the GTschedule. 

This scheduler gets its data from both Tech and coursecritique.com databases. The scheduler uploads data of all class timings and even gives the GPA of all professors. It also gives you the number of free seats in that class. Apart from all this the scheduler also plots the classes in a neat excel table for which the user may download it for other use. The scheduler apparently only works during registration time but if you are not using a GT network it still works. 

After all that trouble that I took to find the right classes this scheduler will be so much easier and helpful. I hope everyone gets the classes that they want for the next semester.

-Abhi( GO JACKETS!!!)