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Lauren’s Quotes #13

[296-304] The mechanisms professor doesn’t really do examples. He’ll go through it and prove it and then he’ll stop and say, “All right, find the equation in the textbook. I’m not going to do anything else.” He’ll just stop and tell us to look in the textbook. It’s like we constantly have to be pulling out our phones to pull up the textbook so that we can get that equation that we need to be able to solve problems. Because he just decides that he doesn’t want to give it to us. Even though a lot of times we have time at the end of class for him to write it down or tell it to us. So, he’ll release us early, like five or 10 minutes early a lot of times. But he just doesn’t consider that it’s worth his time to tell us the equations we need apparently.

[307-310] He’ll get right up to the step before you write down the equation, maybe say you’re trying to prove that C equals the square root of A squared plus B squared for a triangle. He’ll write down C squared equals A squared plus B squared. But he won’t give you that last step that you need.

[314-319] I typically already have the textbook pages that we need pulled up on my phone. As he’s going through his proofs, I’m scrolling through the pages so that I can make sure I’m getting everything written down as he tells us that we need it. And then besides that, I make sure I go through example problems that have stepped worked out, all of the steps worked out, so that I can know how to apply it if he skips over that stuff.

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Lauren’s Quotes #14

[366-370] The first part of the CAD and Manufacturing, which we finished, was manufacturing. We talked about all sorts of different modes of manufacturing. The main two modes that we talked about were plastics and metals and injection molding and stuff like that for plastics. It was mostly casting and again, more molding for the metals. Now, we’re into the CAD portion of the class.

[371-375] On that first project that I mentioned was where we were designing a very simple thing like the wrench in CAD. The second project was more complicated. We designed a bike in CAD. Next, we’re going to be using CAD for analysis of a thing, not sure exactly what we’re doing with that because we just started talking about it yesterday. But we’re going to be analyzing things with CAD.

[378-382] All of the projects in that class, I believe, are solo. But you’re allowed to work with someone, like hey, if your friend is also designing a bike, y’all can work together to be like, “Hey, this is how we would make handlebars.” You can’t submit the same project. But you can help each other out. He’s perfectly fine with that.

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Lauren’s Quotes #15

[455-461] As far as my research, none of my classes really line up with the research that I’m doing. I’d say that the closest one is my lab class because I have to write lab reports for that. Writing a paper for the lab is like the closest I am going to get to my classes this semester. But next semester I signed up for a magnetism class as an elective. I might have a step ahead in the magnetism portion. But as of right now, none of my classes really have anything to do with what I’m doing with my work.

[466-476] Since none of my courses align with the research, when I first started doing the simulations, I sat next to my boss and watched what he did for the simulations. Then took notes from what he was doing so that I would be able to run the simulation. But during my internship over the summer, I still had a really basic idea of what the OOMF software was. But one of the people at my internship is someone who programmed the OOMF software. I’d go down to his office and be like, “Please help me. I don’t understand what this his.” He would explain how to do the thing in OOMF. Occasionally I still email him and be like, “Hey, so this thing, how does it work?” He made the program, so he knows everything about it. It was a combination of watching other people and then having someone who knows a lot about the program being able to help me when I needed it.

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Lauren’s Quotes #16

[413-420] The paper that I’m on, I didn’t actually do any of the writing for it. I just did some simulation work for it. But my name got put on the paper. The project I did over the summer was the skyrmions and modeling them. I’m going to be helping one of my coworkers write that paper. He’s a grad student in the lab I’m in. But because I did all of the modeling work and then I’ll be helping write that because I’m that one that knows what I did. While he doesn’t know as much what I did. So, my name’s going to be on that paper, too.

[423-435] We have three graduate students in my lab. One of them started just recently, this semester. I haven’t really interacted with him much because it’s his first semester as a grad student, he’s mostly doing classes and stuff, I think. But the other two I have been working with since I got to the lab. One of them isn’t working on the same projects that I am, but if I have a question about some simple magnetism things, he can typically tell me an answer. Then the other one is the one I’m going to be working on the paper with. We’re working on the same project. I interact with him the most, even though our class schedules don’t line up all that well. We typically leave notes for each other. I’ll be like, “Hey, I re-ran the simulation and here are the changes. Here’s the data so that you can look at it.” And then he’ll leave me a note and be like, “Hey, can you change the exchange energy, make it higher so that we can see if that helps make it better?”

[597-603] Overall, it was fun doing something new for research. My skyrmions and my gadolinium iron sample. That was mine. It was new. No one else had looked at it yet. I’m sure people had looked at gadolinium iron before, but not the same that I had. Once I get the paper out, more people are going to build off of that. It’s different than, “Hey, I made a cool new bike pedal.” And then someone else being like, “I added ridges to the bike pedal. Isn’t it cooler?” It seems more awesome when it’s something completely new.

[701-709] However, before the summer, before I really started in the lab that I’m in, I was totally just believing I would finish my undergrad and then get a job and then work until I retired. But over the summer and doing research and being involved in that has definitely made me lean more towards going into research, which would mean going into more school. Because it was definitely something I enjoyed and found interesting and would be happy doing in life. My classes so much this year, they’re just sort of classes I need to continue on to next semester where I’ll have some more fun ones. They’re just a steppingstone to continuing.

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Tchuck’s Quotes #2

[94-99] This summer I ended up going back to my warehouse job that I’ve been working since senior high school. I’ve already started applying for internships now, and I plan to continue until I eventually land one, and even then, probably still after just to get more options.

[105-121; 124-129; 191-192] This semester I’m taking all biomedical engineering classes: Foundations in Mechanics, Physiological Foundations, and Electro Foundations. Funny enough, all three of the classes are literally in the same classroom, and it’s a three minute walk from my dorm, which is nice. Most of the teachers use the time as a double lecture period, instead of using the period for lab. Like Literally, on most days I end up sitting in that classroom for hours, and literally sometimes I don’t even move. On Friday’s, we have class from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, and it’s two different classes, but they’re all in the same classroom so we sit there the whole time, which I don’t know, it’s not too bad. But for mech founds, I think I do like this professor the best.

[130-136; 192-193] He’s very, very smart. He basically does most of his examples off the top of his brain. He makes a problem and solves it himself, which he does mess up every now and then, but for the most part he’s pretty good about it and if he does mess up. Literally after class, he’ll go back to his office and solve it and then email us the solution for it, but yeah he’s pretty good. He goes through the problems a little fast. It is complicated topics, but it’s not too bad. I can still follow for the most part, and then if you have any questions, he is always able to answer them. Also, we haven’t done any labs. I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think we’re doing any labs for mech founds.

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Tchuck’s Quotes #3

[143-150] However, I don’t really like my professor in the physiological course. I find him to be a little blunt and a little bit incompetent. He writes all of his stuff on the board that he gets off his PowerPoints for the most part. He spells words wrong all the time, which is not a big deal, but I find it distracting. It’s a little annoying and frustrating. Then, also he’s very rarely able to answer our questions if we have them, or he’ll say “No, that’s too complicated. Don’t worry about it.” Or “Yeah, I don’t really know an answer to that.” On an occasion, he’ll try and BS it, but then I’ll Google it in class, and he’ll be wrong. Or I already know the answer and he’ll be wrong. That’s a little frustrating.

[161-163] When he can’t provide a good explanation, I try and learn whatever’s in the notes for the most part, and then I mean, if something does interest me, I will dig deeper into the topic. I’ll look deeper, because I probably could find most, and if not all answers on Google

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Tchuck’s Quotes #4

[243-249] I had a good experience working with my group on this assignment. We all, funny enough, he did it randomly, but I mean, I know most the people in my class, because we’re all… Like I said, there’s only 30 or 40 of us in the biomedical engineering program. For the most part, I know everyone by at least name, and I’m friendly with most of them, or all of them a little bit at least, but the people I ended up getting grouped with I’m pretty close friends with. It ended up working out. We were fine together and we got everything done. I think the presentation went pretty well. He still hasn’t graded it though

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Tchuck’s Quotes #5

[165-170] In addition to the difficulties with the physiological professor, I also have a problem with the electric and magnetism teacher. He’s this real nice Asian guy. His accent is a little hard to understand sometimes, but I’ve gotten used to it a little bit, but all he does is write his notes on the board off a piece of paper that he has and he does it very quickly. Also, you have to draw a lot of circuits and stuff and it takes a long time to copy down. It’s hard to try and copy it down at the same time as listening to him.

[171-178] I find that makes it a little bit difficult to learn the material. We even had a mid-semester review for him. Some other professor came in and talked to us about what he does good and doesn’t do good in the class. Basically, we all ripped into him a little bit, and he really hasn’t changed anything at all. Except for we have Wednesday labs, which are normally from 12:30 pm to 3:15 pm. We have two periods, tech and a lab period. He would always let us out after the first lab period, and someone suggested during their review that he should keep us for the two periods, because we’re already behind and we don’t know the information that well.

[179-185] Now, that’s what he started to do, but that’s the only thing he took out of the review. However, keeping us for us two periods, instead of one, still really doesn’t help that much, because he still teaches pretty much the same exact way. Honestly, it’s frustrating, because now it takes more time out of my Wednesdays to sit there and copy down more notes that he doesn’t teach very well. I’m definitely going to, once the next exam comes up, I’m definitely going to have to watch a bunch of YouTube videos and Crash Course videos to try and teach myself it

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Tchuck’s Quotes #6

[436-445] Overall, I think that the clinic definitely is helping me feel more like an engineer because the clinic is probably the first real engineering stuff, I guess I’ve done. I mean, I don’t know if it would count as engineering stuff, but it’s research. I’m doing tests and doing experiments. I guess it does count as biomedical engineering, but I think that’s probably the biggest thing that’s made me feel like an engineer, because I’m actually doing testing myself. I’m not really supervised at all. I mean, there’s other people in the lab, but no one’s over my shoulder. No one’s telling me what to do. There’s no teacher. I have to figure it out myself with my lab partner, but yeah, and then I mean, the other classes, it feels like I’m getting through it.

[452-457] Because I understand that I need to know the information presented in class to obviously do the engineering and stuff. I also acknowledge that the way that I’m able to do the research is because the other classes that I’ve had. For example, the chem labs and all that stuff where we learned about safety procedures. You know how to do basic stuff. That’s why I am able to do the research and I do understand that, but I feel like doing the research and being in the lab myself actually makes me feel the most like an engineer

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Anna’s Quotes #2

[453-460] Jumping back into school from doing nothing to having no free time is killer. Some of my teachers are really, really good. They’re really smart and passionate about their subject and want you to learn, but they’re also some professors that I have that are not amazing in terms of lecture ability and ability to bring passion for the subject and ability to make you not hate them. It’s tough to find the will to pay attention during lectures, in, for example, Circuits II and Signals and Systems, but it’s really easy to follow along during Electronic Devices and Advanced Programming.

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