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I came up with a new title for my thesis. The old title was “Money for Nothing where Bandwidth is Free” but it didn’t make much since because it doesn’t have much to do with free bandwidth. So the New title is “Free Power – No Strings Attached”.
Ok, so I have an idea for a [...]

Thursday is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. I don’t know about you, but the title sounds weird. In any case, they’re giving away t-shirts if you give feedback on their ad. I really want a t-shirt; but I have no way of ever seeing the ad. So I’m thinking of making something up, how [...]

I went to the library the other day. Aren’t they fantastic. I found a book by Heinrich Hertz, just so I could have a reference in my thesis stating that yes it is possible to transmit and receive EM waves, and Hertz showed it was possible.* The cool thing is that the book was really [...]

I took some pictures of my group project. I’m so proud of it.

I got a response from my prof after I asked about getting an extension on my thesis. Essentially he said that the excuse that ‘I’m dumb” is not good enough. I need a medical excuse. So unless I get hit by [...]

Congratulations team! We made it to twenty comments. Just know that I could have done it without you. Now I can get back to the serious business of blogging.
After my close shave (jokes!) with the lathe yesterday*, I managed to finish machining the axle for our project. We did the first test run tonight. It [...]

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I got a call from Erin’s goons last night on behalf of Sci ’05’s ThankQ gift. They asked me for $100 to go to the [proposed] Team Room. I asked the caller if this meant the Team Room would be a reality for sure; she assured me that yes it would be. I call bullshit. [...]