Well, my first week of research was a lot better than what I expected :p!
I think I must have read over 20 papers/articles on memristors (my research topic), another 20 wiki pages for more fundamental learning and a whole book on semiconductor properties... and I followed 2 weeks worth of a 5th level university course! I spent most of my time in the library so I discovered a few books during my small breaks. One is the USSR Math Olympiad book and another science book from Amir Azcel, a personal favorite author :p.
Anyways, yada yada yada, my goal for this research is to be the first team (we're three students in the same project) to build a memristor at Mcgill! That would be the such a great accomplishment. People would come up to me asking advice on memristors and then they would realize, oh shit, he's an undergrad!
(If you want to know something about a memristor, you can read this article. It's an easy read: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec08/7024 )
Anyways, last night I went back to Cat's Corner for the first time in a very long time. And it's been even longer that I danced so much in one night! I think I was picked up by 4 or 5 girls in a row lol... which has never happened to me! (yea... I should be the ones asking them for a dance... but they didn't give me a chance :P). Surprisingly, I felt very much at ease dancing and I think I might have even improved by not doing anything at all! In the past, I always felt I had hit the glass ceiling and that frustrated me very much...
My gf and the Marianpolis Swing Dance Club (MSDC) performed also last night!!! They were incredible! I'm still proud of MSDC.
Here are the vids from last weeks performances at the Marianopolis Swing Dance Show that I promised :P:
Besides swing and research, I've been playing Mirror's Edge and mostly Empire Total War! My god, its such a great game! Basically, you control hundreds of 18th century units and lead them across Europe, America and India for global domination. I even got my Art of War book out on my computer desk :p. Had a good friend of mine come over and help me install more memory and a used but much better video card than what I had before. My comp went from a 3.0 rating to a 5.0!
Anyways, besides all of this, still have yet to bike far (its raining all weekend... ARGH), finished reading the whole series of dragon ball with my gf (had to go out and buy the last one :p) , got my mom some flowers that you can plant outside and that comes back every year (im a good boy), finished my kung fu classes, ate sushi with my electrical friends (tokyo sushi, new place, on ste-catherine near concordia, great place!), excited for dragon boat in a week and of course the videos of the week!!!!!
Damn good song :P
Best cello song ever... never liked yo-yo ma till I heard this song!
"I'm not a pokemon! I'm Chaotzu! Chaotzu!"
And I bet you've never heard this song before! (and that's another good thing about youtube... instant music playlists :P)
- Lionsword
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Andy,
ReplyDeletesi je veux essayer le swing, mais que je suis débutante intense, est ce qu'il y a genre des cours d'essai or stg?
V.
yo :P of course!!! EVERY Friday at cats corner there's a beginners course from 8:30 to 9:30. after that, there's an open dance floor :p looots of people !!! you should definitely go!
ReplyDeleteGreeeeeeeaaaaaat!
ReplyDeleteJe vais essayer d'y aller! Je pense que je ne travaille pas le 30, alors je pourrais le vendredi d'avant! ^^ Weeeee! Ca a l'air tellement le fun comme danse!