The No. 1 Challenge in Graduate Research 2
[...continued from previous post] Not only are these subjects difficult, I find them hard to practice and learn properly without prescribed homework sets and deadlines. There are no “assignment due”...
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Last summer, after 3 months of investigative interviewing with multiple acoustical software developers, BCIT Acoustics Lab decided to invest in Odeon, an industry-standard building acoustic modeling...
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Goliath No. 2: Vector Calculus
So, what’s making school so daunting right now for an otherwise school-loving, keener-nerd like me? Why am I having trouble staying focused and falling into a state of anarchic angst? Last term (Sept...
View ArticleThe No.1 Challenge in Graduate Research
What’s the hardest thing in MASc. so far? Physics problems or calculus equations? Neither. Surprisingly, the greatest difficulty I currently face in my Master’s program concerns soft skills: the...
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Technology for Independent Living (TIL) BMET Project!
Hello hello, I mentioned in my previous post that I will post some more information on program project that my partner and I will be working on for the rest of the semester. Without further adieu, here...
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Jobs, jobs, jobs.
As a BCIT student, one thing is going to be on your mind all the time: jobs. Inevitably, everything you do at BCIT is to help you get a job. Most of your instructors have had industry jobs before...
View ArticleI’m back! (I think)
Hello hello, Again, sorry for being so inactive and MIA. School picked up really quickly and I think I finally readjusted to my schedule for this semester. Starting from where my last post left off, I...
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Secret Santa with my class!
Hey guys, Soooooooo sorry for being missing in action for so long. The entire month of December was nothing but busy. The final exams occupied all of my time (and so my blogs were heavily neglected)....
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Selected for Eye-Select
Hey guys, It has been awhile! My life has been non-existent so I haven’t had anything interesting to post about until now. For the people who have been following BCIT’s Biomedical Engineering Program,...
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Vertical Garden Brought Back To Life
On Monday morning, this gorgeous living wall was resurrected to full glory after a months-long sleeping break. Three big tall guys, protective gloves and a special fork lift (and a sunny morning) were...
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Follow up post 3: Award Ceremony!
Hey guys! As previously mentioned, I was awarded the Keith Scott Memorial award, and attended the ceremony. This was my first time attending such an event (in post-secondary) so I didn’t know what to...
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Field Trip: Novadaq Technologies Inc
Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of content for the last 2 weeks, school hit me really hard and I literally had no time to post anything new. During my time of absence, my class and I went on two field...
View ArticleLaneway house hunting, being mailman, and other odd duties of research
(A post written in October) I hadn’t written a while because I was mesmerized by gorgeous October and preoccupied with getting laneway house access. In the blink of an eye, nature came to its most...
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Acoustical Tests in a Reverberant Chamber – Part 2
Continued from previous post. It was probably the most physically challenging project I had ever undertaken. Most of the equipment involved were very heavy and required moving around and transporting...
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Acoustical Tests in a Reverberant Chamber – Part 1
I spent most of my October outdoors (doing laneway house acoustic tests across Vancouver’s residential neighborhoods), enjoying the gorgeous tree-lined autumn streets and mesmerized by leaves that...
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Insect mania
Buenos dias! It’s almost winter and you know what that means: scarf making time. I made the mistake of going to Michael’s yesterday and buying three balls of wool. I never learn my lesson … during...
View ArticleMy Computer Programming (C) Video Project
Hey guys, For the programming course I am taking, we were asked to make a video discussing programming. The topic is so vague, so the different ideas that everyone had was astronomical. Anyway, without...
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Ventilation
Hey guys, So today’s post is going to be a little different. I’m not going to be talking about Ventilators (which is a medical device that BMETS look after), but rather I am going to do some venting....
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Follow-up post 2: Fright Night
Happy November everybody! So i went to fright night on the first of November, and had an awesomeee time. For those who are curious to know if I got scared: yes I did. The group of us only managed to go...
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12 Days to Panama
And the drawings begin. A storm moving in as the sun goes down. Well it’s been a little while since I last checked in, so I’ll start with where we are. The position of the Equinox, taken at 0930, on...
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