TEDx Victoria, I’ll be there

It just struck me that TEDx Victoria is only a few days away and I am going! I have never been to one of these conferences before, but I have watched a large majority of the TED talks that are up online. TED seems to get it right by having really interesting speakers. Talks on subjects that I am not even really interested in are good.

I am pretty excited for Derek Jacoby’s talk titled A hackerspace for biology. He sounds like a pretty interesting guy, and like myself has a strong interest in both computer science and biology. Another speaker that got my attention is Beth Campbell Duke, who is giving a talk titled School is a Waste of Time. That is something that I am starting to agree with as I am spending more and more time self-educating and less time on my actual school work.

As someone who finds lectures in school to be almost unbearable, it’s weird that I’m excited to sit in lectures for a whole day. See you on Saturday….