Tina, Randy, Olga,

Today I registered my project and submitted a proposal on the website.
There is more detail in the slides that I would have included had I been
there to present them.  

In addition, my semester here just started this week, so I kind of lost
track of how fast things were moving at home.  As a result, my semester here
finishes on or before June 11, depending on finals, so there is no chance
that I will be back in time to present my project at the end of the year.
I'm not sure how exactly to handle this situation, so if you have any
suggestions please let me know.

Thanks,

Adam


-----Original Message-----
From: Randolph Wang [mailto:rywang@CS.Princeton.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:04 PM
To: awible@Princeton.EDU
Cc: ogt@CS.Princeton.EDU; randy_class2@CS.Princeton.EDU;
tmmccoy@CS.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: JIW Project Form Reminder!


Adam,

If you have special circumstances (wrt. South Africa or what not), you
should have been more proactive in straightening this out much
earlier, instead of waiting to be contacted.  We have sent many emails
about this already.

Your excuse of "not do the check ups because we are extending work
that we did last semester" is entirely invalid.  What you did last
semester was a standalone project, a grade was assigned, and it was
over as far as I'm concerned.  While topic-wise this semester's work
may be related, work-wise, it's an entirely new project as far as I'm
concerned.

And even if it's related topic-wise, it doesn't mean you don't need
the "checkups."  In fact, it's quite the contrary: because it's
related, you need to clarify in a proposal what new work is to be
performed this semester.

The department has established procedures of how IWs work, for good
reasons.  These are not Tina's or my requirements.  If students start
to decide on their own what requirements they can skip, for whatever
perceived special circumstances they believe they have, not only is
this against department policy, it would also be unfair to other
students who play by the rules.

We may work out some accommodations for you because of lack of face
time.  However, I expect you to follow the requirements as closely as
possible.  For example, while other students must give an in-person
presentation early next week, I still expect you to at least submit
the slides on time, with perhaps more detailed accompanying
description to compensate for the lack of a face-to-face
presentation.  The same goes with the end-of-semester presentation if
you're unable to be back in town on time.  Failure to meet these
requirements may result in grade penalties.

Randy


>  Adam, 
>   
>  You will NEED to coordinate your JIW with Prof. Wang and Prof. 
Troyanskaya.
>  I will also need to be copied on your title/subject content selection as 
>  so I can keep a record of you JIW.  BTW, COS "AB" Juniors are NOT allowed 
>  to do a "2-semster project" (at least that is the information that the 
Dean's 
>  Office has provided me with).  If you have "special permission" to do a  
>  2-term project, kindly let me know. 
>   
>  Thank you, 
>     Tina McCoy 
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
>              TINA McCOY * Undergraduate Coordinator 
>      PRINCETON UNIVERSITY * COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT 
>  35 Olden Street * Room 410 * Princeton * New Jersey * 08544 
>         Phone: (609) 258-1746 * Fax: (609) 258-1771 
>                E-Mail: tmmccoy@cs.princeton.edu 
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
>  > Hi Tina, 
>  >  
>  > I'm in South Africa for this semester and I'm not sure how I'm supposed 
to
>  > keep up with the forms and proposals and such that are due.  Ideally, I 
>  > would just like to work closely with Olga via email and not do the check 
ups
>  > because we are extending work that we did last semester.  Thanks, 
>  >  
>  > adam