Here are the survey results, with a fair amount of double counting and transcription errors. With about 65 out of 82 people heard from:
Your year, from a combination of survey and registrar:
10 frosh, 18 soph, 28 junior, 26 senior, and half a dozen community auditors.
Your major or likely or possible major: a great spread of departments, including the ever-popular UNK. Don't take this as exactly accurate; some people said nothing, while others named two or more options.
14 HIS, 9 ENG, 6 POL, 6 ECO, 5 REL, 4 ANT, 3 SOC, 3 PHI, 2 UNK, 2 PSY, 2 EAS, 2 ART, 1 WWS, 1 SLL, 1 NES, 1 MUS, 1 MOL, 1 GER, 1 COM, 1 CLA,
Your life outside class, e.g., sports, music, theater, service, job, sleep, ...:
Lots of varsity and club sports, a wide variety of service activities, music in its myriad forms, writing in various venues, plenty theater and dance and the like, jobs and work, and some wishful thinking about getting enough sleep. A word of warning for anyone with heavy time commitments, especially if they involve travel: there are weekly problem sets and labs in 109, and you only get two extensions, so please plan ahead.
Your computer experience:
a lot 3, some 16, a little 25, none 21What kind of computer(s) do you have here?
PC 12, Mac 56
The Mac fraction peaked at 89% last year; this year it's 82%.
What kind of cell phone(s) do you have?
iPhone 44, other smartphone 13, regular phone 9
Who is your cell phone provider?
Verizon 28, AT&T 29, T-Mobile 4, Sprint 3, Virgin 2.
This pretty much reflects the world at large, though AT&T had an advantage as the primary iPhone supplier for several years.
Do you have an e-book reader like a Kindle?
Kindle 12, Nook 4, other 4
This bit of technology hasn't caught on locally yet.
Do you have a tablet like an iPad?
iPad 12, other 2
Neither has this one.
Are there any topics you would especially like to hear about in class?
Intellectual property, privacy and security, hacking, business and finance, viruses, creating web sites, applications in various domains, programming, and lots of others. We'll touch on most of these, with considerable detail on some, and if people ask questions at the right moment, we can go deeper into some.
These are the popular lab times, counting first and second choices. I'm not sure yet which ones we'll cover -- we need to coordinate with the lab assistants and get space from the registrar -- but at the moment it looks like it will be Monday and Tuesday afternoons and evenings, and Friday afternoon. Sessions will be in Friend 009.
| 1:30-4:20 PM | 7:30-10:20 PM | |
| Monday | 22 | 25 |
| Tuesday | 19 | 13 |
| Wednesday | 12 | 13 |
| Thursday | 13 | 3 |
| Friday | 10 |
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