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I will find out whether or not I passed my qual tomorrow. For most people, in this two week window when you take your qual, it does not matter when you take your qual, you will still be freaking out because you don’t find out if you passed until it’s all over. So if you [...]

I took my qual today and I believe it went well. I don’t see how it could have been any better. All the questions that were asked were almost like freebees. I guess when you do a good job with your presentation slides you make your life much easier in the Q&A.
Let’s say you are [...]

I bought this about a month ago…

It is a presentation remote and I got it for my qual presentation. It retails for $79.99, Amazon has it for $54.24, and when I bought it a month ago, there was also a $20 rebate. I threw about $14 worth of coins into a Coinstar machine for an [...]

Back in July, I blogged that I had a meeting with my advisor and that he failed me in a practice qual. I know my waveforms very well now, but I need to be very fast with drawing all the waveforms. It’s not easy drawing sines and cosines on the board, adding a DC shift, [...]

My qual is on Monday morning. I know that there is a professor on my committee who specializes in antennas. My qual will be about a power amplifier and I don’t know jack about antennas. I just spent the whole morning reading about antennas so that I don’t fall flat on my face if he [...]

Background info: I will be taking my qualifying exam soon. There will be three professors on my committee. I had to submit a list of seven professors from which they will choose my committee and set a time and place for my qualifying exam. I will refer to these 7 professors as professors A, B, [...]

I’m at a technical conference right now and today there was a career fair at the conference. My advisor was with me.
Advisor: How’s it going?
Me: The dude at the TI table told me to talk to the guy in the white shirt standing behind you.
10 minutes later…
Advisor: Did you talk to him yet?
Me: Nope, he [...]

1. I just finished playing Tribes 2 like there’s no tomorrow. Why? Because there might not be a tomorrow. Tribes 2’s master server is set to go down on November 1st. I’m sure there will be a work around, but just in case, I played Tribes 2 for a few hours tonight.
2. I’m pretty busy. [...]

I am set to test my power amplifier sometime this week. I had gotten my chip back a month ago, but I couldn’t test it until now because some post-processing had to be done and that didn’t get finished until now.  The stakes are pretty high. This thing needs to work.
1.  The last power amplifier [...]

In the last two and a half weeks, I’ve been working on a poster for a technical conference that I am going to next week. In this conference, I would be getting my 5 minutes of fame.

I spent a lot of time working on this poster because it was important. Here’s a conversation I had [...]