Culture

• Movies: the IES-approved movie list ... a requirement for all official IES members.
  
  
• Poetry: original poetry composed by IES students.
  
  
• Recipes: our students would starve without some help.
  
  
• Rules: some serious, some not so serious rules to live by.
  
  
• Words of wisdom: some of our favorite sayings that will help you develop an IES-approved philosophy of life.
  
  
• Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up: a chapter titled "Two Young Men Who Went West" that is particularly relevant for graduate students aspiring to make a career in the world of hi-tech.
  
  
• Learning to Work and Learn (excerpts): a work philosophy for programmers.

Memorabilia

• Gift Shop: Purchase identity apparel and gift items for that very special someone in your life.
  
  
• Intergovernmental Personnel Act: Enjoy pictures from some of our travels while on assignment with the government and other agencies outside the university.
  
  
• Magnets: Joe Picone's fridge magnet collection from around the world.
  
  
• Parties: IES definitely knows how to party.
  
  
• Student Outings: IES students enjoy a break from their research.
  
  
• The Terminal Man: Here it is, at last, the true account of how Joe Picone became The Terminal Man.
  
  
• Transportation: A collection of interesting cars and license plates owned by IES members.
  
  
• Student Conference Travel: IES students have fun at different conferences.
  
  
• Weddings: IES students meet their significant others.

Humor

• Emacs: The Ultimate Text Editor: Real programmers use emacs.
  
  
• Caught sleeping: top fifteen excuses to give when caught sleeping at your desk.
  
  
• CNN features IES, formerly ISIP: mentoring must be taken seriously.
  
  
• Comics: our favorite comics at IES.
  
  
• Dilbert: words of wisdom.
  
  
• Dilbert: real life quotes.
  
  
• The "smiley" dictionary: what those funny ASCII symbols mean.
  
  
• IES employees: top ten characteristics of a good IES employee.
  
  
• Human Relations Test: Take this quiz to gain insight on how other people, such as potential employers, see you.
  
  
• Hyperbolic God: what the Catholic School nuns couldn't tell you.
  
  
• IES Social: what you need to know when facing your first week in IES.
  
  
• Life Explained: why do we spend our lives working ourselves to death?
  
  
• IES meetings: as perceived by Dave Barry.
  
  
• A Chicken Lesson: British engineers learn that every step in the process matters, the hard way.
  
  
• Good hair: What did the boss look like before he had to worry about running IES?
  
  
• Programming Life Cycle: The inevitable phases of life through which every programmer goes. Sad, isn't it?
  
  
• Shooting yourself in the foot: how to identify the programming language you are using.
  
  
• Methods of proof: a humorous look at the scientific process.
  
  
• Pop quiz: The 100 questions Caltech's CS Department expects us to know.
  
  
• Extra Crispy: A reflection on software process.
  
  
• My Spell Checker: have fun reading this spell-checked poem.
  
  
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code: This really hits home, given all the discussions we have had over the past year!
  
  
• Unix literacy: top ten reasons you need to take a Unix class.
  
  
• The computer elites: an all-time favorite list classifying computer users.