Hola, from the fun world of circuit analysis at the Akademie fur Internationle Bildung! Several of us have been working on circuits for about five hours today, as we did all yesterday afternoon, so it's time to work on something not math and physics related. Perfect time for that long overdue academic post I promised! In all honestly, school work has not gone as smoothly as I anticipated heading into this program. For a variety of reasons, several of my courses require a great deal of self-learning, which--though an important skill to hone-- has left me hard pressed for time frequently in the past few weeks.
Recent material/ events includes:
~Visit to Bayer Leverkusen
~Initial value problems and second order differential equations in Math 308
~Cardiac and pulmonary processes in physiology as well as several hours of device design research and brainstorming for our paracorporeal membrane oxygenator with enmodes
~Ancient Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern medicine in History of Medicine.
~Analyzing circuits through loop, mesh, nodal, Thevenin, and Norton analysis in Signals and Systems
All in all, the material has been interesting and I see how it will be practical. And the upside to spending a large amount of time working? I get to do it with a bunch of super funny, really smart, and incredibly cool people. Take for example what happened early today! We had a nice study break when Blake decided to sit on the back two legs of his chair. (You can probably guess where this is going.) Note: the AIB tables are not heavy enough to oppose an athletic college guy from falling. Before I knew what was happening, the table to my left where he was sitting started sliding back and Jordan, Ashley, and I turned to see Blake gracefully fall to the ground...and then start laughing...so we all did. Good times.
The rest of this weekend shall be comprised of studying for our first test in our time here and complete homework before VIENNA (!!). We will have to study and prepared for two tests during our time there, so best to get the homework out of the way.
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