Patrick Lam

Thoughts and travels of Patrick Lam

July: to the Realm

This month’s highlights: three trips, including one outside of New Zealand; ten new restaurants; normal non-teaching term month.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Monday, August 2, 2021

June: non-teaching term month 2

This month’s highlights: SCAM paper submission; less successful tournament result at the Waikato Bays Open (Rotorua); rainy weekend trip to Masterton and Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre; COVID scare in Wellington (got lucky)

Posted by Patrick Lam on Sunday, July 4, 2021

May: non-teaching term month 1

Incremental progress throughout May; as usual, non-teaching terms are much less of a grind.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Tuesday, June 1, 2021

April: end-of-term slog

April has overall been a real grind, with an attempted paper submission and now grading. We had one trip to Christchurch, where our planned objective got rained out, but we still did a bunch of elevation gain (though not much distance, which means steep ascents).

Posted by Patrick Lam on Monday, May 3, 2021

March: finishing the Tongariro Circuit, climbing trip to Pohara, and hiking Wanaka

Usually by this point we’d be getting close to the end of Winter term (was April 3 in Winter 2020), but we’ve stretched lectures out because of the pandemic (later start, additional scheduled pause, shorter exam period), so we still have 1.5 weeks of class left. I feel like the wheels are starting to fall off at this point, with all sorts of random life things happening to the students in my graduate course. Three trips: back from Tongariro; climbing at Pohara; and hiking around Wanaka.

Posted by Patrick Lam on Thursday, April 1, 2021

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Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo; patrick.lam@uwaterloo.ca

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