Long Time No See!
Hmm, apparently I haven’t posted for over a month and a half. I thought it was much shorter than that, whoops! I guess I’ll have to make up for it in the upcoming weeks. I wish I had more things to...
View ArticleHealth and You [Part One]
Since SAP is located at the end of Yaletown and near Downtown, there is a plethora of food options all around me. Along the fact that I have disposable income lying around means that I can actually go...
View ArticleFirst week in practicum
T-11 weeks til I go home! Actually, that doesn’t seem as long as 3 months. Working here has been such a great experience for me! I have learned so much and seen so much this week! On my first day I got...
View ArticleOut with the Old, In with the New, and Everyone Else Stays
Starting next week I’ll post all the things that I promised to post – all done from Monday to Friday because I’m so behind on these blogs. I know I’m not supposed to post them all at the same time but...
View ArticleThank you BCIT and everyone for the awesome year!!!
I have to say this past year has been one crazy one! I went from being someone who just wants to do school in the electrical engineering field to being an entrepreneur and owning my own business just...
View ArticleLast Months of the Last Term
Soooo, I’ve been MIA from this blog for about three weeks. Sorry. I’ve been busy with class and final project work and scheduling work among all this. And really, I’ve been trying to escape from the...
View ArticleSCHOOL’S OUT!…kind of.
I have completed all the courses in the BCIT Airport Operations program. It’s done. Finished. Over. Accomplished. Executed. Fulfilled. Terminated. (Thanks, Synonyms.com.) Time to sleep in for a month...
View ArticleLife in an Italian University so far!
Ciao everyone! Wow, so far school has been much better than expected… Only because I was so nervous about my Italian language skills, thinking no one would talk to me, and thinking I would get lost and...
View ArticleAnalysing Foreign Cities (BCIT’s Architecture exchange to Italy!)
Ciao everyone! So this week, I have realized that studying at BCIT and studying in a University on the other side of the world have many different (and many of the same) things to offer! There are so...
View ArticleFirst Design Assignment at the University of Ferrara (BCIT Exchange)
Ciao everyone! So school has been such a big change, seeing as how I am now studying in another language. It has been a bit of a challenge but it gets easier every day! It helps having group members...
View ArticleMy First, But Not My Last
Hello Hello! Don here, and this is my very first post! I will try my best to give you some insight on what it is like to be a student in the Biomedical Engineering (BMET) program, as well anything and...
View ArticleAnd so it begins…..
Hello Everybody! I never imagined my first post as a Mylife Blogger would be out of a hotel room with planes flying overhead, but here I am. Jet lagged but content, just outside the Toronto Airport on...
View ArticleFirst week’s gift: a nice new student office!
Love the wood cathedral ceiling and great lighting in here.To start off the new school year, my supervisor Dr. Connelly decided to bless us with a student office. So, we did some major cleaning and...
View ArticleSecond week: preliminary acoustic tests and preparing field research gear
During the second week of school I got a bit anxious. While course-based students are on a very structured course schedule supported by a class setting, my research work requires a high level of...
View ArticleNE3 – Center for Architectural Ecology and the Acoustics Lab
I am stationed at NE3, home to the acoustics lab and Center for Architectural Ecology (i.e. green roofs and vegetated walls research!), with my supervisor Dr. Connelly. This arrangement is conducive...
View ArticleStandardized Test Methods – an Intro (Part 2 of 3)
(Continued from Part 1 of 2) As a technical school, BCIT has a fairly good collection of standardized tests. The tests are pretty pricey to get on your own, so it is best to always check with the...
View ArticleStandardized Test Methods – the fun part (Part 3 of 3)
(Continued from Part 2 of 3) Now that I’ve gotten my hands on the precious test standard(s) I need for my experiment, what next? I follow it. Or try to. This is a whole other adventure in itself. As...
View Article12 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...
View ArticleFollow-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...
View ArticleVentilation
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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