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    <copyright>Copyright 2005-2006, Rajesh Kumar</copyright>
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      <title>The CO 370 Midterm</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Feb 22 2010, I wrote the hardest exam of my entire undergraduate career. The 2-hour CO 370 midterm exam designed by Prof. Ricardo Fukasawa of the Combinatorics and Optimization department at the University of Waterloo was perhaps one of the best well-designed exams I had ever seen to date.  I felt that [...] (890 words)]]></description>
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      <title>The Age of Co-op</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:21:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I feel co-operative education has finally come of age. Having completed 6 co-op terms myself, I can now almost definitely say that if you're not in a co-op program at your University, you're certainly missing out on something significant. It would be like having pizza without the cheese. Or milk without [...] (1911 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Reducing Air Fare</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last to last weekend, while virtually all my engineering friends were getting drunk and partying like crazy to celebrate their impending graduation, I decided to spend my time a bit more productively by carefully reading and analyzing Todd Sattersten's new ebook titled Fixed To Flexible.  There's at least 36 very important [...] (1735 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Simple Lives</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When I was sitting in my room pondering the most random things in life, I took a look around me and noticed I only had a handful of technologies around me at home to get through everyday life:     Laptop and internet*   Hair dryer   Cell phone   Wrist watch   Alarm clock   Graphing [...] (327 words)]]></description>
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      <title>An Open Challenge</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Thursday January 28, while I was in the act of a grueling 25 min walk through the heavy Tundra-like blizzard blowing viciously against my unguarded face, on my way from my apartment on Keats Way & University to my 8:30 AM lab in Chemistry-2, an interesting realization struck me. And that realization was [...] (1683 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Pull Versus Push</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I've never been a fan of push-based knowledge systems. Think about it. You go to a lecture. The prof regurgitates a bunch of "knowledge" you may not care about one bit. You then take 30% of that "knowledge" home, unsure of what to do with it. Congratulations, you are now the 7 [...] (1077 words)]]></description>
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      <title>A Free Waterloo Degree</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:03:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The question I've always hated the most is "if you were to do it all again, what would you do differently?" The reason I hate it so much is because in hindsight, everything seems possible. In hindsight, all your mistakes seem predictable and avoidable. But only in hindsight. Hindsight is [...] (2276 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Time Pressured Examinations</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:35:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is with utmost regret that I inform you that even after just under a thousand hours of exam writing experience underneath my belt, I still haven't quite mastered the fine art of managing so-called time pressured examinations. But I'm getting better. Nonetheless, I think I got some interesting thoughts [...] (1143 words)]]></description>
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      <title>Going All In</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[When I was in Grade 10 in 2002, my good friend Prashant introduced me to this game called Age of Empires. It was a simple computer game where you grew a civilization of your choice and waged wars against neighboring civilizations in an attempt to destroy them. The rules and the game [...] (1090 words)]]></description>
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      <title>California Interviews</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:18:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[255 Keats Way, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Thu, November 5th 2009, 4:30 PM EST  At 7 AM Eastern time, I was awakened by my 3.5 year-old Motorola cell phone with its signature siren alarm. It was going to be a long day, but certainly not the longest day of my life. It began with one my [...] (2402 words)]]></description>
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