Monday, August 31, 2009

Another semester with a lab

Yes, it's another semester with a lab. Actually make that 2 labs in a week. Both are time consuming and energy draining labs.

First one is the Digital Signal Processing lab. 3 hours per session and that's still not enough time to finish all of the works. I just went over the second lab doing stuff like programming a couple of leds to spell my name in morse code. So much fun that was *sarcasm*. Well, if things go well, the last lab would be building a mechanical arm that can balance a stick. Much like you trying to balance an upside-down broom on your hand. Or like a segway balancing its passenger while motionless.

The next lab is the Instrumentation and Test lab. It sound a little boring but actually it's a lab where you get to destroy and blow stuffs up. Imagine taking a concrete block and compress it (with a machine of course) until it blows up into pieces. Or take a steel beam and twist it until it snapped. The only problem is the lab reports take a considerable time to finish. My labs from previous semester may take as long as 6 hours to finish. However this course lab reports needs at least 10 hours of work in it. For a 1 credit hour lab course, that's just too much.

Well, that's it for this week update. I'm gonna be buried in lab works soon.

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