An invited lecture delivered to the future graduates of the Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania (21 May 2016): a a kind of 3-in-1 show consisting of several boredom-injected academic advices + superficial entertainment, and resembling an electronic game.

1. Dr. Sabin Buraga – profs.info.uaic.ro/~busaco/
(ex-student) Life as…
FII graduation – 21 May 2016
The Wall

2. We have no idea how a festive lecture should be…

3. So, a kind of 3-in-1 show…
boredom-injected academic advices 
superficial entertainment 
resembling an electronic game 

4. (ex-student) Life as…

job
obligation
joke
purpose
dream
constraints
failure
torture
path
miracle
interaction

♘


💡

/*…*/
❤
nothing
☢

5. He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
Francisco de Quevedo

6. FII student: 1st year, semester 1
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Look at the cup, tell me what you see!

7. junior IT dreamer after the
1st day of programming,
exposed to esoteric
Mathematics & Logics
http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/

8. FII student: 1st year, semester 2
Certain personalities are attracted to certain professions.
Hannibal (TV series)

9. algebraic-defined multiple
inheritance in the object-
oriented implementation
of an OS library
http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/

10. FII student: 2nd year, semester 1
There's no going back!
Mad Max: Fury Road

11. understaffed student
team working to
an Internet-based
database-driven project
& fighting with nasty
regular expressions

12. FII student: 2nd year, semester 2
We're doomed.
Pirates of the Caribbean:
On Stranger Tides

13. facing 1st real-life Web application life cycle chores
during the internship “torture”

14. FII student: 3rd year, semester 1
Surviving is not relevant. Living is. We want to live.
Autómata

15. developers searching for security breaches in
a vaporware program using machine learning tricks

16. FII student: 3rd year, semester 2
They only learn when it's too late.
Only Lovers Left Alive

17. programmer seeks forgiveness
for using a numerical calculus
library integrated into
a 2D generative art
cloud-based solution
http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/

18. Of course, there are many other opinions…

19. a user testing experiment
Telling the truth... always a bad idea.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

20. Alert!
Universal translation service is temporarily
down, so we’ll switch to the main audience
mother tongue. Sorry for the inconvenience!
rebooting…

21. Ești student la FII dacă…
diverse opinii anonime ale studenților*
colectate la penultimul curs din 19 mai 2016
*multe mulțumiri + baftă la „Tehnologii Web” 

22. Ești student la FII dacă…
nu ești în toate mințile
The Dark Knight

23. Ești student la FII dacă…
știi trei cuvinte: { cafea, cod, pizza }
One Point O

24. Ești student la FII dacă…
îți pierzi nopțile scriind cod,
pentru a obține minim 512 erori
Naked Lunch

25. Ești student la FII dacă…
ai gâfâit cel puțin o dată urcând la etajul 7
Delicatessen

26. Ești student la FII dacă…
ai văzut hieroglifele de pe băncile din C309
care spun „aici am pierdut lupta cu somnul ”
eXistenZ

27. Ești student la FII dacă…
faci prezența la orele de lab pe o foaie de hârtie,
folosind un pix împrumutat
Memento

28. Ești student la FII dacă…
te-ai plâns de cel puțin de 1024 de ori
de serverele și de Internetul de la facultate
Disconnect

29. Ești student la FII dacă…
înveți că e mai bine să lucrezi în echipă
decât să-ți spargi capul de unul singur
A Series of Unfortunate Events

30. Ești student la FII dacă…
profesorul e vinovat pentru toate nereușitele tale
No Country for Old Men

31. Ești student la FII dacă…
e al cincilea an de facultate și ești în anul 3
Taxidermia

32. Ești student la FII dacă…
te apuci de lucrarea de licență pe 30 mai
La cité des enfants perdus

33. After some struggle, you’re supposed
– finally!? – to complete a (fairly trivial) task:
finishing the academic studies
your (soon to be issued) title:
Bachelor of Science – BSc

34. …So, what’s next?
Slow West
There's more to life than just surviving.

35. be free: don’t ask for permission to be yourself
The Zero Theorem

36. Prometheus
discover: yourself, opportunities, world,…

37. It’s silly… That's amazing.
experiment: academic/enterprise/start-up carrier
Frank

38. It’s silly… That's amazing.
explore: be an outer and/or inner traveller
The Grand Budapest Hotel

39. interact – especially with human beings
Everything's Going To Be OK.
Uncanny

40. help – as a pal, mentor, benefactor,…
Miekkailija

41. …and – of course! – be prepared for
the unknown

42. time travelling IT consultant?
It's never too late to be who you might have been.
Predestination

43. organic spyware anti-virus developer?
Am I an object?
Ich seh ich seh

44. brainwaves digital curator?
It’s good to be humble,
but you need to know your value.
Advantageous

45. computational biologist in the cosmos?
Prescription: two hours in the Earth Room.
Sunshine

46. surveillance system architect?
There's no right, there's no wrong,
there's only popular opinion.
Twelve Monkeys

47. a bright future visionary?
Let there be light!
The Divide

48. So, this is the (happy) end?
PRESS START

55. to be continued?!...

56. Enjoy your life!
Cloud Atlas