Fall 2008 Goals

For your amusement, here are my goals for the upcoming school semester. While many things are listed, working on my thesis will be my top priority. I would like to get the research done by Christmas so I can spend some of the remaining time (as per my funding) working on other things.

• Thesis
• Develop milestones to reach so I always have a clear goal in sight
• Finish research and be ready for writing by Christmas
• TA
• Take TA training courses and try to get the Teaching Certificate (don't have to do it all this semester!)
  
• Will be TA'ing first year game development course
  
• Seminars
• Do a really good talk for OCICS seminar series (requirement for Masters students)
  
• Attend weekly algorithms seminar put on by our computational geometry group
  
• PhD?
• Apply for NSERC just in case (due around the end of September)
  
• WISE
• Continue with planning and participating in events (one per month)
  
• Attend Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (should try to present next year!)
• Get experience working with younger girls in high school/elementary events (such as GoEng Girl etc)
• Schedule
• Develop a weekly schedule (reading time, lab time, seminars, etc) and stick to it
• Mini-course
• Hoping to have paper about this year's course published in ACM SIGCSE's December inroads (submitted July 31)
• Apply to run a similar course again (around October/November)
  
• Technical writing
• Keep practising by updating blog regularly (including Nerd Girls)