Ever since I dropped out of EE 354 last Spring, I’ve been followed by a shadowy fear lingering behind the scenes. 354 is a prerequisite for 434 and, having dropped 354 last spring, the only way I could graduate this coming May would be to take 354 and 434 together, 354 acting as a co-requisite….
Seven eighths through. I’m hopeful that the prospect of graduating in May will motivate me to at least pass all four classes that remain. Schedule for the Spring: Course (credits) EE 354 Engineering Signal Analysis (3) EE 434 Instrumentation Systems (4) EE 493 Sustainable Energy Systems (3) ESM 450 Economic Analysis & Operations (3) The…
My poor financial management skills have been given more funds to play with; I’ve received another scholarship. My perplexing success in this domain makes me wish I’d started applying for free money much earlier in my college career. In April I meet with my private scholarship sponsors for breakfast at a pomp and circumstance recognition…
Competition is fierce for placement in leading journals of science and engineering, such as Nature and IEEE Communications Magazine. Inclusion in an issue of one of these publications earns the author(s) notoriety, prestige, and some measure of clout, which they can use to make sound legitimate outrageous claims that they might introduce while entertaining guests…
Is it damaging to let someone’s misunderstanding of what you’ve said go uncorrected? Depends on what you mean by damaging, but it’s unlikely to ever be a good thing, except in the most mischievous of cases. As wonderful as it might be for your opinion of yourself to be completely independent of what others think…
Just now while walking home from school I was overcome with a strong sense that today was Friday. Though I normally welcome fridays with open arms, on this occasion I was discouraged because it would mean I’m 48hrs more behind on assignments than I already am. Then, after a few seconds, I was relieved to…
IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. They’re responsible for developing a number of standards, such as the 802.11g wireless standard which you may have seen before. There are a number of different societies within the IEEE, most of which publish at least a couple monthlies or quarterlies with titles like ‘IEEE Transactions…
H5N1 is disconcerting because its name implies that there also exists H5N2, H5N3, H4R9, and the millions of other alphanumeric combinations. If ever I find myself lacking things to worry about, I have only to read an article on virology. If their child has been diagnosed with a life threatening disease, sometimes parents will, in…
I made it through the year alive, though not unscathed. I dropped EE 354 Engineering Signal Analysis because I was afraid I was going to fail. It’s a cool class, I just wasn’t giving it the time it deserved. I’m going to learn it on my own over the summer. I’ll have to take it…
Having taken a couple creative writing courses for elective credit, I’ve come away with a sense that when you’ve written something in the 1st person, people tend to think that you’ve actually experienced the things you’ve written about. This attitude is helped along when the protagonist of a famous novel is claimed to be a…
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