Freshman Year vs. Senior Year

Freshman Year vs. Senior Year I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here. This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhiE house (it looks wayyyyy better now!) I was struck by how different my first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a freshman. Freshman year, my first class was 18.02: Multivariable Calculus. I walked into 26-100, an enormous classroom, into a throng of students all seated before the array of blackboards, the backdrop of a stage where Professor Minicozzi often played the role of both a math professor and a comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end of the lecture, I was excited (wow! College! Multivariable calculus!) and also terrified (there’s 800 million freshmen and they are all 800 million times smarter than I am.) Senior year, my first class was 2.74: Bio-Inspired Robotics. I walked into 3-333, which is a conveniently alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class so small. Of course, this is also a grad class, which partly explained why. Professor Sangbae asks, “how many of you are graduate students?” and about 75% of the room raises their hands. By the end of the lecture, I was excited (wow! A graduate class! Being taught robotics by the same people that did the MIT Cheetah!) and also terrified (two-thirds of this class are graduate students, some of them working on their Ph.D, and I have to do the same work that they do O__O”) My emotions have been the same, excitement mixed with terror. MIT is terrific, in both senses of the word. But it was the similarities that made me realize how different my life is now, how different I am. The stakes have been raised dramatically. I didn’t expect senior year to feel like the same ‘level up’ that freshman year did, but it does (probably because all my classes are grad classes). Freshman year, I was taking 18.02: Multivariable Calculus, 8.01: Physics Mechanics, 3.091: Solid-State Chemistry, 21F.076: Globalization, and 21F.181: Chinese Streamlined 1. That was 5 classes (not all were “full” classes of 12 credits) which was a lot. These classes are pretty self-explanatory, and to be completely honest as they’re mostly General Institute Requirements (GIRs) I wasn’t very passionate about them. Senior year, I’m only taking three classes, but they all require a lot of time, effort, and commitment. 2.74: Bio-Inspired Robotics. 2.75: Medical Device Design. CHNSE166R: Dream of the Red Chamber (at Harvard). Dream of the Red Chamber, or ???(Hong Lou Meng) is one of the four great classical Chinese novels. We are reading the original text, and this is the first time I’ve been this excited and this terrified in a humanities class. It’s essentially the equivalent of Hamlet, filled with words we don’t use anymore that are basically akin to “thou” and “wherefore art”, except I’m not even that fluent in modern Chinese. I’m scared for my life (and my grade) but also looking forward to reading my first-ever complete(ish) novel in Chinese (starting with this one might be a mistake.) Normally, the only classes that scare my pants off have been engineering classes, so I’m excited to be really challenged in a completely different way (excited to be scared?? This is what 3 years of MIT will do to you) 2.74: Bio-Inspired Robotics is taught by Professor Sangbae Kim, who led the famous MIT Cheetah project. He expects to all leave lecture marveling at our own bodies. Nothing humans have ever built is even close to the compact, efficient, yet powerful abilities found in nature. So, in a can’t-beat-’em-join-’em attitude, 2.74 aims to teach how to take principles from nature and apply them to robotics. Definitely the coolest video we watched in class so far is this snake robot, built in the Hirose Lab in Tokyo. The earliest version was built in 1996!! The part where its swimming (0:53) is the coolest!! and as students in this class, its our semester project to build something like that. Well ok, probably a lot simpler because were not researchers and we only have 3 months, but still!!! 2.75: Medical Device Design is taught by Professor Alex Slocum who is actually crazy, and I mean that in the best way possible. He wears hawaiian shirts everyday all the time everywhere. Just to make this clear to you, here are some fantastic Slocum quotes which I wrote down during lecture. 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He has some sheep there apparently. We just ranked the projects we wanted to work on for 2.75we’ll develop each project idea into a prototype by the end of the semester. The project I ranked #1 for 2.75 is a monocyte separation device to isolate white blood cells. Jargon aside, it’s essentially a piece of diagnostic equipment that will most help those with HIV/Aids, sepsis, or other immune deficiency oriented diseases. Making an improved, cheaper device will allow more people access to earlier diagnoses. Improving access is something close to my heart, so I was really sold on this project when the presenter said the goal was to make something accessible enough to be used in regions like Sub-saharan Africa, where access is lacking. It’s also likely going to be a complex prototype involving integrating several currently separate machines, which I thought would be closest to the type of work I want to do in the future (robotics!). ***** While I am excited, I know now (as an old, decrepit senior) that this is not all going to be roses and butterfliesthis year is going to be stressful, but hopefully it will also be fun, and one thing thats certain is that I will again grow and learn a lot. To avoid the trap of comparing myself to others while in college, I’ve often asked myself, “What would high school you think of you now?”. That’s what mattersnot what the person next to you is doing, but how you’re doing relative to yourself. High school me would not only be impressed by me now, high school me would not even have imagined all the things I have done. High school me would not have even guessed I could have done all those things in just three years. High school me would be awe-struck. And that’s a pretty good feeling to have.               The photo my avatar is based on (a low-quality snapchat from freshman year) and a photo of me now (taken by Marilynn B. 18) Post Tagged #18.02 Multivariable Calculus #2.74 Bio-Inspired Robotics #2.75 Medical Device Design #cross-registration #GIRs

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Analysis Of Nadine Gordimer s The Lying Days

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A Review Of Gaming s Lgbt Representation - 1115 Words

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Learning Styles and Personality Types in a Group Dynamic Free Essays

Learning Styles and Personality Types in a Group Dynamic When working in a group environment, one will encounter different people who think, learn and act in different ways. In order to succeed, we must understand these differences and how to use them to our advantage while working with others. Multiple Intelligences When Gardner developed his Multiple Intelligence theory, it gave people a new insight to the way we learn. We will write a custom essay sample on Learning Styles and Personality Types in a Group Dynamic or any similar topic only for you Order Now This breakthrough also helped us to work more effectively with one another as well as how to better communicate with each other. Verbal-Linguistic Someone who is Verbal-Linguistic is very simply good with language. A Verbal-Linguistic person will excel with writing, talking or listening. Therefore, to better work with this type of an individual, one should either write notes or have a face-to-face conversation. This way the Verbal-Linguistic person can best understand and contribute to the group. Intrapersonal Intrapersonal individuals excel at being alone and their own thoughts and feelings. They may at first seem to be a detriment to a group because of their tendency to want to be quiet and observe. This behavior may be seen by others as someone who does not want to work together or contribute, which can lead to conflict. To work with someone who is intrapersonal, one should be aware that they might not express their ideas openly. Any tasks that need to be done that don’t involve the group as a whole could be delegated to this individual. Visual-Spatial Artwork, design and formatting are all things Visual-Spatial people do best. When working with someone who is Visual-Spatial, it will help to not give long speeches. Visual-Spatial learners best learn and contribute through the use of pictures, maps and diagrams. To effectively make use of these individuals, any tasks that relate to this would be best. Personality Types According to the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, there are four types of personalities: thinker, organizer, giver and adventurer. When working in a group, it is beneficial and essential to understand what types of personalities lie within your group. Organizer If someone is an organizer, they tend to be focused on details. This is good for a group because they will be very thorough in each task making sure everything is complete and accurate. To best work with organizers, make sure each requirement is clear and defined and everything is understood and laid out in a clear manner. Adventurer Adventurers seek to do things in a non-conventional way. They may want to take a more active approach to the project as opposed to standard discussions and writing. In some groups this may be seen as a waste of time or unwillingness to complete the task up to the group standard. Allowing adventurers to take a different approach, even if it is not used in the final product, will not only allow them to understand the material better, but it could also add different elements into the group project that might not have been thought of that could raise the quality of the project as a whole. Thinker When working with thinkers, it is important to understand the need to work alone. Like individuals who are intrapersonal, thinkers work best by themselves. To help make them feel more at ease in a group environment, allow them to complete tasks that do not require the entire group. While working with the group at large, thinkers will be useful to solve problems the group may be facing during a task. Conclusion Assessing the learning styles and personality types of the members in your group is essential to the group’s ultimate success. Failure to use member’s strengths could result in conflicts and not achieving the goals the group has set. When each member is utilized in a way that they are strong in and in a way they are comfortable in, they will not only be productive and active within a group, but also achieve a higher quality of work which will only help the whole group succeed. How to cite Learning Styles and Personality Types in a Group Dynamic, Essays