10/30

Personal

Missed test, must re-apply...Cap and gown stuff due tomorrow, after that its all late fees!

RP

Made a lot of progress in PSpice today, started adding different components to my circuit design and tested for differentials of the voltage input and output. (see pictures)

Dr. Newcomb is stressing me getting a personal copy somewhere, but my home PCs are not fit to run such a powerful program. He said consider saving it to a secure school PC. I may decide to ask Mr. Dulce for such assistance...

10/26

Personal

ACT tomorrow at Dunbar.

RP

The final result of the last three days!

I accidentally stood up my PSpice tutor because:

rain
+
traffic
+
teen drivers
=
30 minutes late to internship.

10/25

Personal

It's Vasco's birthday!

RP

Today I worked more on PSpice and actually throughly completed an example! But then the actual system didnt work out so well so I'm going to have to badger Dr. Newcomb to help me fix it...

10/24

Personal

Still need more sleep. Need to work on shirt designs and Etcetera Mixtape as well.

RP

Today I jumped right into the SPICE program, with the coaxing of Dr. Newcomb at least...

10/23

Personal

Get more sleep.

RP

Today I visited UMD in order to get through with all the preliminary activities such as signing up with the school (and ECE specifically) directory so that I could have a university email and ID. Dr. Newcomb told me a little about how pedometers work (small magnetic pendulum switch) and wants me to apply the reverse to the energy saving mechanism I am to create. He also asked that I research Accutron watches, how magnets conduct electricity and electromagnetic coils. I've a large amount of learning to do because of my late start (and general under-information in my previous engineering courses, maybe I should have taken more rigorous coursework before this point.) I also took a book home by the name of of Simulating with Spice for some background.

10/15

Personal

Get Kallish work done!

RP

Mr. Rountree gave us our grades today, or should I say 'as of today', and I must get my work in or that 17% will never become the 88% I need and can attain. This is a funny situation, just not while I'm experiencing it first-hand.

10/13

Personal

First day of on-the-road driving school.

RP

The link was broken so I did some web surfing/searching to find the same program at a different source and sent this link to Dr. Newcomb. He has not replied yet with an opinion or anything so I am going to wait to download the version I found.