Tarotoast’s Stuff

Bioengineering 110 is the course for Continium Mechanics. All the files related to this course can be obtained from [here] under “BE110″ folder. All materials there are copyright works from Professor Schmid-Schoenbein of UCSD. Well now, some thoughts about this class.
Throughout this course, we are learning classical Newtonien Mechanics with Biomedical applications. Is this class interesting? To be honest, not really. There’s no immediate graditute like doing a chemistry lab to visually see things in action. Maybe couple quarters later, when we’re doing labs, I can feel the joy to predict exact behavior of living tissues. So what do we learn in this class? Just like the professor said, we learned the “language” required to communicate in this field. Basic notations, equations, symbols, and so forth.

I do have some philosophical disagreement with the way tests are designed. I think, it’s more important to know how to use an equation than to show you memorized an equation. That’s the fundemental difference I had with the professor. Result? We’ll see soon.

Today is the last day of my first quarter in UCSD. Finally done. Now I’m pretty much half asleep. More will be added tomorrow after waking up “naturally”. What a luxury.

The last week of school is here. What does that mean? It means soon, very soon, I’ll be sitting in a huge classroom taking finals with my peers, sweating over answers and regretting not spending enough time studying. Therefore, I’ll save those sweats to study right now. Byebye to my home PC… for a while. Very soon, happy winter break is coming.

Oh and there’s that huge stack of CompUSA rebate forms I had to copy and send… Orz

Following up the post I posted couple hours ago, I’ve warned myself to take the [bad start] as an omen for worse.

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It’s a bad start today, and probably the worst this quarter in UCSD.
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