The Coolest Nerd

Posted by Skrud at Sunday, March 13th 2005 at 4:09am

We cleaned up at the Molson Banquet tonight! There was a huge skrud.net representation, so thanks to everyone for showing up! The beer was yummy, the food was great (although rareer than usual) and everybody was (for lack of a better word:) awesome. I walked away with the Faculty-Wide “Engineering and Computer Science Council on Student Life” award “For Outstanding Contribution to Student Life in Our Faculty”. Wow. I’ll take this blogging opportunity to thank everyone who was involved in ECA and CCSS this year for making it a phenomenal year. I’ve had a lot of fun, and I think I was a little too active this year. So maybe I should cut back a bit. I also want to acknowledge the four department winners of the ECSCL awards: CCSS’s own Ahmed Kamel for CSE, Phillip Gauthier for MIE, Franklin Dagba from ECE and Cherisse Vanloo from BCE. These are all incredibly hard working and dedicated students and it’s been great working and partying with them all year. :)

But that’s not all! For the second year in a row, the CCSS won the ECA’s Society of the Year award. This year they switched it up to include a Gold, Silver and Bronze Society award, and we got the Gold. And we’re going for the hat-trick, too. Because next year, I hope to be the CCSS president. :) A huge shout out to CASI and EWB who received Silver and Bronze. I have to admit that I was somewhat suprised when CSIE didn’t win the award… I’m sure we were neck and neck for that one! Well, they were great competitors!

And to top it all off, I was awarded the Joke Award for “The Coolest Nerd”. You know what? That’s even more awesome than the other two. :P I’m glad people have noticed my computer geekery, and I’m proud to be a geek! They said “This guy makes it cool to be a computer nerd”. That’s awesome. And now for a long list of names of people who I think have made outstanding contributions to the ECA and the betterment of Concordia, and have always been around to help me out when I needed it… (please excuse me for misspelling your names, and tell me if I forgot anyone!)

CCSS Execs: Nadia Chaouch, Ahmed Kamel, Neil Conlan and Tahir Kahn; ECA Execs: George Papadakis, Peter Maroulis, Elena Petrova, Kirk Papagianakis, Ahmad Sadr Ghayeni, Jon Covey, Dean Sam, Jakub Biernacki and Manal Abd El Sayed (even though she left ;) ); Shahnaj Shimmy, Paul Figura, Nathalie Burnett and all the other ex-CCSS Execs; Guillaume Theoret (aka Smokinn) and Louis (aka Canuck, I don’t his last name), hopefully future CCSS execs; Alex Limoges (ECE Rep - aka Tilex) for being a fantastic friend and ally; Juliana Jasinski (MIE Rep); Rosalynn Nguyen (aka soybean); Harley Cooper (aka larley), Josh Haller (aka Phrook - for asking his dad to lend me a suit), Michael Haller (for lending me a suit ;) ), Leilani Ku (aka IronArms), Laura (I don’t know her last name either - for beating Josh), Melissa Noodelman (Mel), Melissa … from Texas? (aka Vendetta), Kevin Branco (aka NivekTheEvil), Thien-An Mac (mak2k); Sylvie Medeiros, Ting-Ming Chen, and the rest of CASI; Spiro Govas; Catherine Rheiner for being entertaining and council meetings, and for being a superb bartender at Reggie’s; Aw, hell, everyone at Reggie’s; Nick Papas and the Loyal Order of Beer Buffaloes, for being the best people to drink with; Alex Fong, for not killing me; Liselle Rego and Jacelyn Daigle, our gorgeous Frosh Leaders; Mike, Chris, and Alain - the coolest Froshies ever; All the students in my SOEN 229 tutorial, even those that just trickle in from the other section; All the students in my COMP 229 tutorials, for writing in C; All my professors, for not failing me (); Fred Brassard from Ubisoft, for the partying and help; Martine Poisson from Electronic Arts, for saving my ass when Fred bailed to go to San Francisco (really, a huge thanks for that one). Dr. Clement Lam, Dr. Peter Grogono and the rest of the Computer Science and Software Engineering department at Concordia, for putting up with me and listening to my whining; Pauline Dubois from CSE for getting me a computer lab whenever I needed it, hiring me as a TA, and all around excellence in planning and organizing; Bill the CS Games team: Xaio Feng Qiu, Thien-An Mac, Alexandr Lebedev (CD), Aaron Farmer (unit00), Guillaume Theoret (Smokinn), Neil Conlan, Ahmed Kamel, Tahir Ali-Kahn, and Nadia Chaouch; Dave from SAE for telling me not to take the SysAdmin position at ECA (too late!); All the skrud.net forum members that I haven’t mentioned yet; Bill Lynch (Associate Dean of ENCS) for getting me to talk to the CEAB, and for letting me have some wine and cheese at the Dean’s List party I accidently ended up at with Paul; Anyone else who has helped me out in any way this year, from the random people that talk to me in the halls to the people that drink with me at Reggie’s. You’re all awesome people and I look forward to the rest of the semester and another great year with all of you!

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