This post is about pretty ladies that are impressed by computer things. Really. I found some.
So for Pre-Med Club, I’ve written a fairly extensive suite of software for tracking “points” for our members. Basically, members get points for coming to meetings, doing volunteer work, helping committees, etc. These points are tabulated and the person with the most points at year’s end gets a free MCAT prep course from Kaplan; that’s like a $1500 value.
Last year, I was just a member of the Club. Every meeting, we had to write down our names on a sheet of paper when we came to meetings. The secretary would then go match up our names with points and add them into a sheet he kept in Excel. Wow. Talk about taking a long time to get anything done.
This year, I’ve developed a complete system for tracking members and their points. With a couple clicks, you can pull up any information you want— how many points a member has, which meetings they’ve attended, how many people helped at a volunteer event, etc.
The key portion of this system is the card swiper I acquired; it reads OU IDs and inputs them into the system. So for general meetings, I set up my laptop outside the room with the card swiper, and swipe cards as they go by. This eliminates traffic jams caused by having to write out your name completely; it takes less than 2 seconds to swipe an ID card. Plus, there’s no more work to be done; my program tabulates everything else for us!
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This has made me popular in no little measure with Justin, our secretary, since it cuts down on his work too 
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