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    Coolest Class: Advanced Principles of Physics III (PHYS163)
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    / April 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Around November of my sophomore year, I registered for PHYS163 on the registration website and dubiously considered the information posted for the class: Interference and diffraction of waves, special relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, condensed matter physics, elementary particles EISBERG. QUANTUM PHYSICS . (Required) ISBN: 9780471873730 New: $144.50 Used: $108.40    After 2 long semesters of Newton’s Equations, heat transfer, electric and magnetic fields, sound waves, circuit theory, and other...

  2. Why I Chose USC
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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Rather than posting about the happenings of my week, this post is going to outline some of my key factors when I was selecting schools, and where USC stood in these factors. First off is the Academics: The only reason I went to college is to learn more, ultimately. The quality of the engineering program of a school was one of the first things I considered in my applications. Of...

  3. Civil Engineering In My Own Words
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    / February 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    I’ve blogged about this topic once before, but now that I’m a senior and less than four months away from starting a real job in civil engineering design, I would say that I now have an even better idea of what civil engineering is. Civil engineers are responsible for designing structures (houses, parking garages, bridges), roads and parking lots, water supply and wastewater systems, etc. We don’t usually start from...

  4. Electrical Engineering in my own words
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    / February 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    So let me begin by stating that I have written about this topic in the past here. Much of that information still applies so please check out my old post before continuing reading! Most of the information from before is applicable, except I have new classes in addition to continuing my student involvements. I am now taking 4 classes, each of which is on a totally different subject: Innovation (Senior...

  5. Spring Semester: At a Glance
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    / January 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Last fall, I found myself going crazy because I was stretching myself way too thin.  Between my insane class schedule, marching band, working in the lab, my minor, and the Concert Jazz Orchestra, I realized that I could not do this every semester of else I was going to go crazy!  Therefore, I toned down my class schedule this semester and decided to focus more on working in my research...

  6. Thanksgiving Break!
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    / December 1, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Thanksgiving break is what I like to call “the tease” of all allotted holidays during any given year at school. While those of us lucky enough to go home receive 5 days with our families, the timing is so funny, for lack of a better word. It’s a small glimpse of Winter Break, yet the stress of finals, pending last minute homework assignments, and projects crammed in to the coming...

  7. Doing Well In Class Pt. 1: Study jams
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    / October 31, 2011 / 1 Comment
    I don’t know about you, but I can’t study without music. Sitting in silence for hours on end drives me a little nutty. So in order to knuckle down and get through my work, I’ve got to have some good study jams! This blog post is about some of my music recommendations and how I access them. By far my favorite new music experience has been Spotify. Spotify is a program that...

  8. Senior Design Project at Disneyland
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    / October 8, 2011 / 2 Comments
    As part of the Industrial & Systems Engineering curriculum here at Viterbi, I am currently taking a class called ISE 495: Senior Design Project, which is basically a year-long consulting internship at a company in the Southern California area. In addition to learning about team management, lean manufacturing, and process improvement through lectures, we go visit our assigned company to analyze their processes and optimize a certain aspect of their business. My...

  9. Hardest Class vs. Favorite Class
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    / September 17, 2011 / Leave a comment
    As a Senior, I’ve taken a wide range of classes. From grueling prerequisite math and science classes like Differential Equations and Physics, to more fun elective classes like Intro to Adobe Photoshop and the Film Symposium, I’ve covered quite a few subject areas. Overall, I’ve really been enjoying my upper division Industrial & Systems Engineering classes, but in order to take those classes I first had to knock out some pretty challenging prerequisite classes....

  10. Hardest Class vs. Favorite Class
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    / September 15, 2011 / Leave a comment
    So a new semester is underway, and 4 weeks in, everything is in full swing. Although I can’t say as of now that my courseload is any better or worse than last semester (I’ll wait until the first round of midterms to pass judgment), my initial impressions are in and they aren’t anything like I expected. What I thought would be my hardest class has turned out to be my...
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