ADEREMI'S NOTEBOOK

— A couple of guys at Imperial College, Folabi Ogunkoya and Lawrence Bassey-Oden have launched Caramellounge, “a social network for Africans, Caribbeans, African-Americans and anyone interested in Afro-Caribbean culture.” Read the press release. (1)

— College life, powered by Google. Has anyone else tried Google Reader, totally slick! #

2005 Graduate Class (3)

Imperial College showed some sympathy confirming that I graduated with a degree honours any parent would be proud of. I should probably mention that I studied Chemical Engineering (the judge sentenced it as 4years). Along with my partners in crime, it was a case of suffering and
smiling. I guess it paid off!

I want to encourage you as others have encouraged me with this quote;

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

I am alive (0)

The last couple of months has been exciting for various reasons. I practically lived in here for the last 12weeks. I got on this program and will be working here for the summer. I have been busy building up this society alongside a couple of talented individuals to become one of the biggest societies at Imperial College (I think we did). I also built the site sometime last year in case you were wondering.

Also Imperial College has a new homepage design.

Happy Easter!

— Warwick Blogs; How cool is that! I wish Imperial College would do the same. #

ICU President resigns (4)

SOUTH KENSINGTON - Some sources in Imperial College are suggesting that Mustafa Arif, President of Imperial College Student Union (ICU), offered his resignation this morning. It is not official just yet neither is his reason for resigning.

Update: Mustafa Arif has retracted his resignation but he will be seeking a vote of confidence on 18th October 2004

Gone Till September (0)

Actually that should read as “Back in September” after a much delayed anticipated return, I am back. Let get all pretend I never really left. Now that we have that cleared out of the way. Let do some catching up.

As of yesterday, I am offically a Geek according to two friends studying computer science at Oxford (Did I say I was studying chemical engineering). All I did was make some geeky suggestion about changes for one of them to make to his computer - see earlier post for some ideas.

Marcus has done posting on his time working at Feltham Young Offenders Institute here and here while Nosa has written an open letter to Quentin Tarantino who allegedly has a blog now maintained by his editor. Unganisha has more of his stories which absolutely amuses me.

MentalAcrobatics attended Cassidy’s concert which didn’t quite go as he planned. Jag spells out the steps for making ‘Vindaloo’ style chicken. I need to stop just reading the recipes and actually start cooking them to see some results. Apparently been able to cook as man is very attractive (should compensate for the geekness in me).

World University Ranking 2004 (10)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published a academic ranking of the universities all over the world. It also published the ranking for universities in America, Europe and Asia. The ranking is geared to enable universities to be compared and identified worldwide by their academic or research performance. The website states:

We rank universities by several indicators of academic or research performance, including Nobel laureates, highly cited researchers, articles published in Nature and Science, articles in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index, and academic performance per faculty.

Only four European universities and one Asian university are in the top 20, the rest are American universities (surprise! surprise!!).

I scanned the top 500 list, I found that there were only 4 universities from Africa, all from South Africa.