Archive for March 2010

Acer Aspire One D250 Netbook - Posted March 27, 2010

I saw this 10.1 inch going for quite cheap over at Canada Computers, so I decided to buy it for note-taking in class and answering emails. I’ve since nuked the HDD and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32x. I thought about running XP or Linux, but Windows 7 had the best battery life. The 250GB Harddrive is a [...]


University Tour 2 of 2: Queen’s University - Posted March 19, 2010

Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario has about 22,000 students, which dwarfs Trent’s mere 7,000. It takes about 3 hours to get to Kingston from Toronto, which is quite far. Queen’s has quite a long history, dating back to the 1800′s, and the university buildings look accordingly old in style, but gives off a new feel [...]


University Tour 1 of 2: Trent University - Posted March 17, 2010

(I had wanted to give an overview of the universities I’ve visited/will visit, but unfortunately I don’t have much time these days. But hey, pictures are worth a thousand words, right? I was also a bit self conscious with my camera on the campus (attracting some looks), so I didn’t take a huge selection. I was dead [...]


Upcoming University Campus Tours - Posted March 15, 2010

With university being just six months away, a lot of us high school students in our final year are highly fearful anticipative of the impending promising university life. Like many other, I have yet to make visits to prospective schools, and have been waiting for March Break to arrive with the opportunity. During March Break, universities [...]