Monthly Archives: March 2009

Hummingbird eggs

31 Mar 2009 – 9:23

There are two tiny eggs in Beatrice’s little nest! I’ve heard they are each about the size of a whole coffee bean! They must be tiny because the whole nest is about the size of a 1-year old’s fist.

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Hummingbirds make their nest

29 Mar 2009 – 17:55

For the last week, my roommate has been telling me that hummingbirds have been flying around our porch, checking things out. When I came back from a one-week absence, we had a teeny tiny nest right on the Chinese lanterns on our porch! This actually happened before (two years ago) and I thought there’s no [...]

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Building self confidence

28 Mar 2009 – 13:56

The last session of the CRA-W Grad Cohort 2009 (today) was on Building Self Confidence. Studies have shown that low self confidence is common among successful women, academics, and graduate students—a triple whammy for the attendees of CRA-W! The best general advice is to believe in yourself and feel good about yourself: “Know yourself and [...]

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Tips on being a woman in tech

27 Mar 2009 – 23:02

I’m attending the CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop (2009) in San Mateo this weekend and so far, it’s awesome! While there have been a number of valuable sessions for me personally (decisions about grad school, research, internships, interviewing, etc.), I especially liked the last session of the day: Being a Woman in Technology: Tackling the Problems [...]

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The resources model as distributed cognition for HCI modeling

5 Mar 2009 – 11:37

This is a review of a paper I read for a course on Distributed Learning (in the Education program at UCSD). Analysing human-computer interaction as distributed cognition: The resources model Wright, Fields, & Harrison are trying to blend theories of distributed cognition with human-computer interaction modeling. The problem is: much of HCI is task-based, but [...]

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