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		<title>MME Logo</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/02/01/mme-logo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brandon pointed out to me the new website for the [Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department](http://www.mme.uwaterloo.ca) has launched, featuring my logo in the document footer, similar to how [ECE](http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/)'s is.

My understanding is that there will be an official unveiling in the summer term, at which I'll be asked to give a brief explanation of process and inspiration. So you can all come out to that with your clappers and big foam fingers... or just know that the inspiration was doodling on a tablecloth at [Montana's](http://www.montanas.ca/), and the software used was the excellent [Inkscape](http://www.inkscape.org/).]]></description>
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		<title>Midterms</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/11/01/midterms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say Engineering school is hard. But there&#8217;s a point at which you simply become numbed to it&#8230; when 78 of 99 students get a midterm mark below 50%, it&#8217;s not hard to start fantasizing about a long and successful career as a line worker screwing lids on toothpaste tubes.
And apologies to arts majors for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only in Waterloo</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/09/20/waterloo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, in Waterloo, there were two parties.

The first was thrown by a frat, and was bone dry. The second was thrown by a local employer and featured a good deal more beer and liquor than could have been safely consumed by the persons present.

Not that all Waterloo frat parties are dry, or that most employer recruitment sessions *aren't*, but it's a little amusing to observe the contrast between students *now* and the students who graduated ten years ago to start companies in town.]]></description>
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		<title>Ceili!</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/05/15/ceili/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterloo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[_Pronounce as &#8216;Cayley&#8217;_
Mike [Biggs](http://doubleplum.net/) persuaded me to go to a _Ceili Dance_. It&#8217;s a monthly affair put on by a local group with a [charmingly hideous](http://ceili.intrnear.com/) website.
But the dance was really marvelous. The last time I&#8217;d done anything even remotely similar was on a class trip in about grade 7.
###Music
Live. I appreciate that. The musician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Better PDEng</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/03/17/a-better-pdeng/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rumour has been floating around that there&#8217;s talk of scaling back or even canning PDEng due to the number of complaints about it. I can&#8217;t comment on the validity of this, but it made me consider what I meant when I said that &#8220;I don&#8217;t object to education of this type.&#8221;
It also raised an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PDEng</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/02/03/pdeng/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/02/03/pdeng/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterloo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update: More PDEng-related commentary [here](http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/03/17/a-better-pdeng/) and [here](http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/08/07/responsibility-for-content/).
If you feel so inclined today, I&#8217;d appreciate if you could pray or rub crystals together or do whatever it is you do to plead with the Powers That Be on behalf of another human. I need a healthy dose of level-headedness with a side-order of professionalism.
So&#8230; what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Interest Research</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/12/29/public-interest-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every term that I pay tuition to University of Waterloo, there&#8217;s a number of additional fees, nominal amounts, that are tacked onto the overall bill.
Most of these, such the WEEF fee, I pay gladly, confident that their role on campus is worthwhile. Others, such as the student newspaper, I may object to elements of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNZ 101</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/10/14/snz-101/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/10/14/snz-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a 3 hour Autocad and sketching lecture-lab, our prof announced that in twenty years of teaching this material, he&#8217;d never seen so many people asleep by the end of it.
I managed to stay alert and internalize everything, but I guess time will have the final word on that. There were several assignments due at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praise The Lord</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/05/26/praise-the-lord/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/05/26/praise-the-lord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2004 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Waterloo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[> Dear Michael:
>
> Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to
Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo&#8230;
> I hope that you will choose to accept our offer of admission and join us on
campus this September!
>
> Wayne Loucks
>
> Associate Dean of Engineering
> Undergraduate Studies
> University of Waterloo]]></description>
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