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Teachers at Tech

As a student of Georgia Institute of Technology I am extremely critical of my teachers. For the most part this criticism is well earned by the teaching staff of Georgia Tech. This university is build and based around graduate and professor level research. Thus Gatech beings the best and brightest in Engineering to its campus that allows amazing research to be produced. Then students are left with great minds who have little to no business in the classroom. As extremely educated men and women they have a breadth of knowledge in their field but they lack skills to be a talented and inspiring teacher. During my first semester at Tech I was thrown into three 200+ person lectures that are thought of as review level courses. Due to this fact the quality of the teachers who lead these classes was very low. I actualy enjoyed the challenge at times of trying to teach myself material inadequately covered in class. As a result of this transfer of teacher and student responsibilities I c

CR-48: Chrome OS

I am part of the Chrome OS pilot program to test the new Chrome OS. This device is in my mind the future of internet based operating systems. This device is basically your normal Chrome browser on your Mac or PC with only a few add-ons to increase the productivity. I have been using it for all of my mobile computing in the past weeks and it has been a great experience. Now as school starts back up I am running into the problems with my plan to use my chrome-book exclusively during the semester. One being required software for certain classes that I can not run within the Chrome OS environment. The first set of programs being AutoCAD and Inventor which are windows based 3D graphics environments. These two programs I am not expected to use my CR-48 with because they are native non-web-based programs. I will either work on my Dell XPS m1530 or work on a Gatech computer for these activities. Zotero an extension used for managing web sources is a great tool that we will be using dur