Matt Leming
Articles
Column: A look into Folt’s head
"Do you need to fix that or something?” Carol Folt asked mid-sentence. My cell phone had been blipping on and off when it should have been recording.
Column: Eating meat is a matter of taste
Animal rights is a tricky subject for me.
Column: Banning Yik Yak isn't a solution
“‘Oh Harry, don’t you see?’ Hermione breathed. ‘If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!’”
Column: Scaling the wall around the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor
The Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor is one of many student committees that meets up monthly or biweekly to discuss ... stuff. A 14-member body headed by the student body vice president, it has the distinct privilege of meeting with the chancellor once a month for anything it wants.
Column: Something is better than nothing
Recently, the Young Democrats decided not to endorse any of the candidates for Student Body President.
Column: No more excuses for bad ethics
The information age has had a bit of an unexpected effect on large organizations: forced transparency.
Column: Computer science cuts a disservice
The computer science department offers students some of the most important skills they will need in the modern job market, regardless of whether they decide pursue a degree in the field.
Column: Hack, hack, (sleep?) hack
A hackathon is a competition for computer programmers and designers where you stuff 200 to 1,500 people into a room for 24 or 48 hours, shove some energy drinks in there and see what happens.
Column: Flipped classes need scrutiny
One of the hardest undergraduate courses in the computer science department is Computer Science 530: Operating Systems. It’s a flipped class. We worked in groups of four on absurdly difficult worksheets, watching video lectures and doing projects outside class. Besides the professor’s philosophical opposition to posting answers to these worksheets (ever), it was a well-executed course and likely the best way to learn the low-level workings of complex machinery.
Column: Being the business monkey
My first idea when reviving the UNC Computer Science Club was to “group idea-makers with people who could make those ideas happen.”
