First SSCC Meeting

I was so used to catching the bus at 11am to get into town by midday that it felt weird getting ready one hour earlier today. Our Circuits and Systems lecture got shifted from 1pm to 11am on Thursdays because of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Staff Student Consultative Committee (SSCC) Meetings (that’s a mouthful) that were scheduled at the same time. The meeting was my first responsibility as Student Rep for Year 2 Computer Systems so I was pretty excited to see what I was in for. I read the email with the meeting’s agenda earlier in the day but when the time was approaching, I realised I didn’t even know where the “briefing room” was. Thank goodness for the campus map though, I managed to navigate my way to the Science building across the road and up the stairs. A knowledgeable-looking young man directed me the rest of the way down the hallway where everyone was already seated around tables in the briefing room. Dr. Oliver Sinnen, the chairman of the committee, introduced us all to the department managers also present. We then went around the table introducing ourselves before Oliver got into the agenda matters. I probably shouldn’t say too much about what we talked about (I don’t know if I’m allowed to say…?) but it was a pretty interesting meeting and a great chance to see how the department runs and the clockwork that ticks behind the scenes. At the end of the meeting we had a group photo before we left. The copy of the photo we got sent had numbers on all the people though, because Oliver wanted to know which person in the photo we were.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Reps 2010

My first Uni locker!

Another exciting event that happened today was finally getting a padlock for my locker. Yesterday I hired a locker in the Engineering building so I could leave my gym gear in it during the day. By the time I realised we could actually hire lockers, the only ones still vacant were either up on the 5th floor or down on the 2nd floor. I haven’t used it yet but there is now a padlock on my locker so that’s a start. Here it is in all its glory…