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Another Semester Finished
Fields and Waves - not as deathly insane as many people complained. I won’t dare say it was easy but you get a lot of bang for your buck with the course which is nice for a change. It gets counted in my book as one of the few courses in which you actually gain something. I really think this course, or at least a watered down version of it (less math), should be required for all engineers. I think too many people don’t really understand, even in a rudimentary sense, how electricity works and how our modern technology functions.
Introduction to Microcontrollers - this was a moderately interesting course. We went over the basic architecture of a microcontroller and then immediately dived into programming them with assembly. Too much felt like magic in this course. It didn’t provide the depth I would have liked. What does this code really do? What is it doing at the low level transistor level, and how is it that adjusting the software changes the behavior of hardware? Why does it work, how does it work? We never really discussed that, it just works. Things just happen.
Hebrew 2 - this course is one of the few taken this semester that lived up to the hype. It is the second year of hebrew. I might have a different perspective since I went into the course with a fairly decent background of the culture and language. I enjoyed learning a few new tenses and verb forms as well as learning a few more of the unique qualities of the hebrew language.
Circuits 2 - Oh boy this class was not fun. I’ve rarely had a class kick ass and take names as this course did. High probability that 30-45 percent of the students failed the course. A good 25% of the students in my class were on their second attempt this semester. Most would think this course is an electrical course, and those people would be terribly wrong. This is a class of analysis. Look at a picture, generate differential equations, solve. Wash, rinse, repeat. Let’s not discount the fact that our professor was absolutely amazing, as she is every semester. With a solid 30% of students failing every semester it is not a course to be taken lightly.
I’ve elected not to enroll in any courses during the summer. My mind just needs a chance to relax for a little while. I need to drink those drinks with the little umbrellas in them and just chill - at least mentally.
01:33 AM | Tags: school, thoughts