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Whew! Hi Everyone! Its been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be a harsh mistress. But Id like to use this post to get back into the swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, Id finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I received my first D, but I fulfilled enough graduation requirements for both degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations officer for NROTC. IAP 08 came and went without a post, and that was intentional. I took 10.493: Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics over IAP. After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my all into that module. I did, and I think it paid off. For some reason my grade hasnt posted to WebSIS yet, but Im pretty sure its an A. I cant remember the last time I got one of those. Probably back when I was a freshman. This semester is my last hurrah. While my total number of units dropped, the actual difficulty of the courses increased. Lets take a look at my registration this semester: 8.04: Quantum Physics I I finally feel like a physicist. Up until this point, Ive felt like a kid walking around in his daddys shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like Im beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works. This is a great class, and Id highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in physics, even if you dont plan on majoring in course 8. At the very least, it will make you question how the world around you works. In fact, Im still struggling with some of the results of what Ive been told. Of late, Ive been wondering about the following: Quantum mechanics says you cannot predict, in a deterministic fashion, the location of a particle at a given time. However, you can predict the probability with which a particle will be found over a set of locations. Once you measure a particles position, its probability distribution turns into a spike (because youve found it, the probability that the particle is anywhere else becomes zero. This property is called wavefunction collapse, and to the best of my knowledge its true nature is still a mystery). A small amount of time later, you know that it must be somewhere near where you just found it. However, the same cannot be said for an equally small amount of time before! You can say nothing about the location of the particle before you actually measured it, regardless of where you find it. Ok, thats all fine, I guess. In the face of experiment and mathematics I can swallow my disbelief. What I dont get is this: Quantum Mechanics is a deeper theory of reality than classical mechanics, yet in the limit of large quantum numbers (things with everyday size have large quantum numbers), quantum mechanics reproduces classical mechanics (a result called the correspondence principle). However, we know that classical mechanics looks the same regardless of the direction of time. That is, if I know the position and momentum of a classical particle, I know where it is and how fast its moving immediately after AND immediately before. How does a theory that says we cant say anything about where a particle is before we measure it give rise to a very well-understood theory that is invariant under a reversal in time? Im sure theres an answer, they just havent taught me enough yet. By the way, the lecturer this term is Marin Soljacic. After being bothered by a beeping cell phone, he decided to invent wireless electricity (I guess we should credit Tesla too). I should decide to invent something. 8.044: Statistical Physics I Thermodynamics from a physicists perspective. Thermo and I are old friends. We met back in sophomore year and have been inseparable since. This will be the third class that explicitly concerns thermodynamics, and the nth class Ive taken that includes some sort of thermo. Im enjoying it, if only for the eerie familiarity. 8.593: Biological Physics My favorite class this term, and my first graduate-level course. Finally, biology the way Ive been waiting to see it! I once read an article that said Biologists think that if they try really hard, they can solve any problem with arithmetic. Ive found that to be true in the course 7 classes Ive taken here. Not to denigrate the biologists I know in any way. Its just that the courses shy away from heavy duty mathematics. I say if youve got it, flaunt it. This course gives a rigorous description of selective but representative biological phenomena (vision, protein-protein interactions, etc) using the machinery of calculus and statistical mechanics. The problem sets are longer and harder than any Ive seen before, but theyre also fewer and certainly worth the effort. 10.491: Integrated Chemical Engineering II Continuous process design. Right now were working on a computer simulation of the production of biodiesel from used vegetable oil. I regret that I dont enjoy this sort of thing as much as I do physics. But its the last ChemE class I need for my degree, and Im doing a lot better this term. Im too close to stop. 21M.051: Fundamentals of Music A long, long time ago, in another life called high-school, I was a musician. I wasnt great. In fact, I was pretty average. Once I came to MIT, I gave it up. But after going for 4 years without music, and being a senior whod finished his hass concentration, I decided it was time to go back. Fundamentals of music centers around learning music using the voice as your primary instrument. So we sing all the songs that you learned in elementary school (including Hot Cross Buns and that song about the Kookaburra). We also learn how to play the piano. I cant say I like it more than any of my physics classes, but it is certainly a refreshing interlude. What else is new? 87 days until I graduate. I have a job. But more on those things later.

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â€Å"No man is an island†-John Donne Speaking on the matter of current events, Egypt is in turmoil. Hosni Mubarak is a modern day pharaoh disregarding everything that his â€Å"loyal† subjects are requesting in the polite manner of rioting in streets. He pays no mind to the words of John Donne, an Englishman of the 1500s. Although he himself may be outdated, if you will, his words are not. Not that I am referencing to his entire anthology, but rather a clump of five words that have a particular relevance to Mubarak’s unjust reign. â€Å"No man is an island.† These are the words that â€Å"President† Mubarak disregards; although he may not know them at all. It wouldn’t be too surprising as he is a pristine example of what happens when a man is an island. Mind you, that is by no means literal. I don’t see how an island is fit to lead a nation. 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Now that we have, again as a society, established that that would not be just for us all, we have introduced this lovely little thing called democracy. On another note, there is the idea that no man can be truly solitary. Henry D avid Thoreau, a philosopher of the 1800s, proved this theory to be correct after he decided to strive away from society for a good deal of time while he completed his infamous work Walden (which is quite impressive, mind you) with not a single soul for company. He stayed there for two years but eventually had enough and rejoined his fellow Massachusetts citizens in a functioning life. Although it appears that someone can be in solitary confinement, so to speak, for a good deal of time, it is by no means permanent. Which brings me to my next point, another view of this line. In a prison that most citizens would know by the name of Alcatraz, there was a solitary confinement installed where prisoners who misbehaved or did not abide by the given rules were placed in a box of sorts with no sunlight and no human contact for a given amount of time, depending on the offense. Prisoners who went in there once, more often than not, did everything in their power to stay out of there from then o n. This supports Donne’s quote (although applied in a different way than originally intended) because no man can sustain himself in isolation for a long period of time. Although Thoreau’s stay in isolation was a much happier, peaceful time, it offers the same effect. Carrying on from that thought, yet another example would be a psychological study conducted (or rather, a number of them) on a girl that went by the name of Genie. This was by no means an intentional study, but it resulted in (in my un-esteemed opinion) one of the most fascinating and tragic stories and studies of modern psychology. She was socially isolated until she was thirteen years old by abusive parents. Although this is most certainly not how Donne intended for his quote to be used, (considering how he lived in the 1500s and Genie was born in 1957) it is more than fitting and also provides a factual side to his quote. Genie was isolated, save for the occasional interaction with her abusive father b y way of beatings, for thirteen years where she was hardly fed, never learned to speak, and is, for all intents and purposes, the feral child that she was called when she was first discovered in the early 1970s. She could barely be called human as she could hardly function, eat, relieve herself, or vociferate as a normal girl of thirteen years would be able to. Her inability to function due to what was deemed to be her social isolation is proof that indeed, no man (or woman, child, dog, cat, reptile, or fish) can be an â€Å"island† so to speak. Those who are fortunate enough to return from their isolation as Henry D. Thoreau was are undoubtedly the beneficiaries of the tale. They can take from their solitary experiences and appreciate all that society and socializing is. Those who were not as fortunate, as Genie in particular was, are a way for we, as the descendents of men such as John Donne whose wisdom and eloquence precedes (or recedes, really, as here we are a good thr ee hundred years later still discussing him and his work) them, to realize how true the words are and how they do and will apply forevermore. (In contrary to what the Raven quoth, which was nevermore.)

Free Essays on Fish As A Hero In Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet- Fish as a hero â€Å"Hero- Man of superhuman strength, courage or ability, favoured by the gods; later regarded as intermediate between gods and men, and immortal.† (The New Oxford English Dictionary) By definition of hero in A Glossary of Literary Terms (pg139) a hero is â€Å"the chief character of work, of whom our interest centres† and this hero must have one of many factors including conflict concerning â€Å"the circumstances that stand between him and the goal he set himself.† A hero must also be fighting for a worthy cause. The two definitions demonstrate two sides of a true hero. The dictionary definition defines a character describing the characteristical attributes of a hero, where as the literary terms definition is defining a heroic character by his role in a text. Fish satisfies both definitions of a hero. Fish linked to God and his innocence; -Samson (Fish’s real name, and Sam Pickles real name), in bible Samson loses his (hair) to gain something much greater then was possible without this loss, he becomes a hero -Fish is related to the symbol of Jesus and Jesus being the fisher of man - Lamb is innocence and Jesus being a shepherd -Drowns and is ‘cleansed’ (baptismal imagery) - Retarded at the maturity of a child, therefor maintains innocence throughout the story -Talks in tongues (wedding and in sleep) understands the pigs language of tongues -Jesus is â€Å"the water man†(pg119); he gave Fish the opportunity to help his family -Fish discuss’ his omniscience (pg424) -Medically fish is not retarded (pg67) -In his omniscience reveals he has a purpose to help his family â€Å"Lester, Rose, Red- I cant stop it for you† -He has a take and must fulfil this before he ‘returns’ to the water; Fish urges for the water and responds not yet (pg120), (pg146) still yearns for water Fish’s task to unite the family; -Fish was the cause for the move to Subiaco and for ... Free Essays on Fish As A Hero In Cloudstreet Free Essays on Fish As A Hero In Cloudstreet Cloudstreet- Fish as a hero â€Å"Hero- Man of superhuman strength, courage or ability, favoured by the gods; later regarded as intermediate between gods and men, and immortal.† (The New Oxford English Dictionary) By definition of hero in A Glossary of Literary Terms (pg139) a hero is â€Å"the chief character of work, of whom our interest centres† and this hero must have one of many factors including conflict concerning â€Å"the circumstances that stand between him and the goal he set himself.† A hero must also be fighting for a worthy cause. The two definitions demonstrate two sides of a true hero. The dictionary definition defines a character describing the characteristical attributes of a hero, where as the literary terms definition is defining a heroic character by his role in a text. Fish satisfies both definitions of a hero. Fish linked to God and his innocence; -Samson (Fish’s real name, and Sam Pickles real name), in bible Samson loses his (hair) to gain something much greater then was possible without this loss, he becomes a hero -Fish is related to the symbol of Jesus and Jesus being the fisher of man - Lamb is innocence and Jesus being a shepherd -Drowns and is ‘cleansed’ (baptismal imagery) - Retarded at the maturity of a child, therefor maintains innocence throughout the story -Talks in tongues (wedding and in sleep) understands the pigs language of tongues -Jesus is â€Å"the water man†(pg119); he gave Fish the opportunity to help his family -Fish discuss’ his omniscience (pg424) -Medically fish is not retarded (pg67) -In his omniscience reveals he has a purpose to help his family â€Å"Lester, Rose, Red- I cant stop it for you† -He has a take and must fulfil this before he ‘returns’ to the water; Fish urges for the water and responds not yet (pg120), (pg146) still yearns for water Fish’s task to unite the family; -Fish was the cause for the move to Subiaco and for ...

The 5 Ws (and an H) of Journalism

The 5 Ws (and an H) of Journalism The  questions  a journalist answers in the lead of a conventional newspaper article are  who, what, when, where, why and how. Also known as  Five Ws and an H  and reporters questions. The 5Ws H formula has been attributed to English rhetorician Thomas Wilson (1524-1581), who introduced the method in his discussion of the seven circumstances of medieval rhetoric: Who, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose,Why, how and when, doe many things disclose. (The Arte of Rhetorique, 1560) Examples and Observations It is not often one finds a walk-in refrigerator in a private home. When it happens, even the most hard-boiled of home reporters may be so flummoxed that she reverts to the journalism basics: Who? What? When? Where? Why? In this case, the who is simple enoughNeal I. Rosenthal, founder of the wine importing business that bears his name; the where is his newly renovated house in Dutchess County, about two and a half hours north of New York City.But why a fridge you can walk into?Another moment of excesses, Mr. Rosenthal says of the refrigerator, which cost $23,000. He has, after all, just completed the last step in a $3 million-plus renovation.(Joyce Wadler, In Dutchess County, a Wine Merchant’s Renovated Home. The New York Times, June 19, 2008)News stories are about providing information, and there is nothing more frustrating for the reader that finishing a story with unanswered questions still hanging. Journalism students are taught about the five Ws: who, what, when, where an d why. They are a useful tool to check you have covered all the bases, though not all will always apply.(Peter Cole, News Writing. The Guardian, Sep. 25, 2008) Journalists questions Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? or the questions that are referred to as the five Ws and one H, have been the mainstay of newsrooms across the country. Likewise, these questions have not lost their value in classroom instruction, regardless of the content area. Having your students answer these questions focuses their attention on the specifics of a given topic.(Vicki Urquhart and Monette McIver, Teaching Writing in the Content Areas. ASCD, 2005) S-V-O Sentences and the 5Ws and an H Subject-verb-object is the preferred sentence organization pattern in journalistic writing. Its easy to read and understand. . . S-V-O sentences pack in enough of the who, what, where, when, why and how for readers to have an overview of the story in one sentence. . .These 5 Ws and an H leads from wire services tell the whole story: AUSTIN- Texas ( where) Destinee Hooker, the two-time defending NCAA high jump champion ( who), will skip track ( what) this season ( when) to train with the U.S. womens national volleyball team ( why) before the Olympics.SALT LAKE CITY- Tag Elliott ( who) of Thatcher, Utah, was in critical condition one day after surgery ( what) to repair extensive facial injuries sustained in a collision with a bull ( why).Elliott, 19, was riding a 1,500 pound bull named Werewolf on Tuesday ( when) in the Days of 47 Rodeo ( where) when their heads smacked together ( how). S-V-O is the preferred sentence order in broadcast as well, because it creates easy-to-say units of thought that listeners can understand and absorb while the sportscaster is speaking. Online readers read in chunks: a blurb, a lead, a paragraph. They, too, are looking for easy-to-read, easy-to-understand information, and thats what S-V-O sentences deliver.(Kathryn T. Stofer, James R. Schaffer, and Brian A. Rosenthal, Sports Journalism: An Introduction to Reporting and Writing. Rowman Littlefield, 2010)