11/27

Personal

Rough day, improve sleeping habits. Build up artitic skill for portfolio. Finish up essays and reccos.

RP

Today was hard for me, genuinely hard, at first. I was trying to log in on my usual computer and technical difficulties drove me up the wall. Eventualy, one of the Help Desk guys came to work on the issue. In the mean time, I was relegated to another workstation that unfortunately held none of my saved work. Throughout this entire time, I repeatedly dozed into a meduim to heavy slumber on the account of no sleep in two days from trying to live both the life of an aspiring engineer and aspiring graphic artist/ art entrepeneur. It will all be rectified when I reveal to my parents my true passion and dont have to do all art stuff after the family has fallen asleep.

When I finally got through the maladies of the day, I pulled up some research on Accutron watches and the electrical and physical concepts behind them.

11/15

Personal

Get focused! Please, so you can prove everyone wrong...

RP

More research. Transferred my notes to the back of my tangible logbook.

11/14

Personal

I don't think that I am going to college for engineering anymore.

RP

Today, i worked with another student of Dr. Newcomb's by the name of Ameer Abutaleb. He went over specific and more pinpointed areas of research with me such as piezoelectricity and quartz tuning fork oscillators. He suggested that, if I sought specific, measurable results immediately, i should build and test one.

11/6-11/7

Personal

Very busy week!

RP

Researched more on the above both days.

11/2

Personal

Boring day...

RP

I received a lot of information from my tutor. He helped with much more than PSpice. He was in the process of explaining to me the program when we realized that it would be easier to teach if he knew what specifically it was that i needed to learn. From there he was really able to access the knowledge he possessed on the topic. We discussed the specific circuit layout for my system, the physical design for it (various ideas surfaced) , the math and electronic theory behind my idea and a lot more.

11/1

Personal

Pay the rest of dues and for your cap, gown and senior book!

RP

Today I focused on the pendulum simulation and the math behind it.