It's really impossible trying explain what the shad experience felt like. Looking back at my texts to friends back home, most of them were complaints about how sleep deprived I am. Although that is an integral part of the shad experience, there is no way a collection of words can even come close to describe what the month of July was like.
^cheeeeesy but true. I'm only starting to feel the impact of everything that happened and more importantly how everyone helped each other grow. I was nervous meeting the 48 other shads, but discovered that each of them are amazing in their own ways yet we all have so much in common. It's really the people (including the staff!) that make "our time together a dream like journey"
Summarizing everything that happened would be way too much work, so here's some memorable quotations/cool stuff/inside jokes that I hope I'll still get when I look back at this years later:
- "When I don't have to sleep for my dreams to come true"-Rochelle
- "Don't hold back because youhave no experience, that's what you get when it's too late"-Tim
- SWAG, what our business plan was full of. Of course standing for Sophisticated Wild Ass Guessing. Two important things came from the completion of the house project: the realization that I can (albeit miserably) function with a lot less sleep and that my bs skills leveled up by a logarithmic scale.
- "Life is a lot like a shad schedule, full of lies and misinformations"-Mike
- This is the environment that I want my future company to have:
- Shad Valley of Despair (similar to The Dip)
- Wicked problems. Jenny's seminar was amazing!
- "There's 2 rules to success: 1. Don't tell people everything you know"-Kevin
- Sprouts, Nim and Clobber, math games seminar ;D
- "Ask Mike" our unofficial moto
- "Can-do shaditude"-Lisa Marie.
- Words of wisdom from Rick Nanson, my favourite guest speaker:
Would someone be able to differentiate you from a computer? (Alan Turing)
What you do in your career, can it be digitized? (Kurt Vonnegut)
Never start calculations until you know the answer (his physics prof, so to develop intuition)
Simple, complicated and complex. World is complex, we're trying to solve it like it's complicated.
"There's known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns"
"God grant me the serenity to accept the thngs I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference"-Serenity prayer
"In the times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equiped to survive in a world that no longer exists" - "Here's a map of Nova Scotia, by a fluke g geography, PEI also happens to be there"-Mike, trying to keep our camping trip to PEI a secret.
- Businesses must be scalable.
- Construction noises following us where ever we go. Had to change lecture rooms 4 times.
- Burrito style sleeping bags
- Dal dictionary (shamelessly stolen from the monthbook)
Bears: mythical creatures that Mike tell us scary stories about.
Bottle: a weapon to hit someone...or to pass around messages.
Curfew: a suggestion, not a rule.
Dum Shad: what we become when we don't get enough sleep or coffee. (usually the latter)
Explore Program: French kids who invade the cafeteria. (and hate us for "cutting" in line)
Harry Potter Movie: a crushed dream.
Schedule: The vaguest source of information, complete with spaces intentionally/unintentionally left blank. (Really wanted to do "embracing serendipity in an unserendipitous world") - "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the Shads adjust the sails"-Shruti
- "Shad is like pi (or 2*pi),-natural, irrational, and very important"-Clark
- Pomegranate Phone
- The Last Lecture-Randy Pausch
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