BE Confusion

Its a Saturday night and the BE final is on Monday: Yet I'm still confused as to what I am studying for.

I still have no idea what an engineer is. To me, BE means combining many different aspects of science to create devices that will help doctors keep people healthier and make the quality of life better. Specifically, using stem cells to create organs. But I was talking to a fellow BE freshman and to him, it meant something completely different.

Which is right? I guess neither. The definition must be abstract and individualized. Which leads me to my confused question: what will the final really be asking? If this course really means something different to everyone, how can we answer questions for the general?

AGHH so much confusion. Where do I start for this final?

Who knew it went so fast?

Its been a while since I posted, but I've been busy with my BE project and now, finals are coming up... Its stressful, but worth it. One semester if almost up!

What Has Been Going On... Everything but BE

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be writing here because individually, I haven't been working on anything. Everything has been a group project. That's where I've been putting my time and energy.

I'm having mixed feeling about the cold. I loved seeing it snow (first time!) and I don't mind the cold if I'm layered correctly, but I'm not such a fan of being outside when it snows. The snow lands on your face and melts, freezing your face and any other exposed body surface. I think I like warm areas better, but since I chose this school, I'm gonna have to get used to cold winters.

I have started studying for finals (which are in a week! aghhh) Its A LOT of information. I'm sorta surprised that i learned all this in only one semester. But now i have to just sit down and do all the problems that I have been assigned. that's the problem. I haven't been doing that. So I'm making a finals resolution: Stop procrastinating and do your work! Now, if only I could follow that.

No Monkey Business for Us

We picked our idea, wrote a spec sheet, made a PowerPoint image of it and now are finalizing all the other tidbits of our design. We still have to create a poster and iron out all the discrepancies in our design. I really like working with my group. I feel like everyone contributes equally, using our individual talents for the better of the group. We all get along and have fun when we meet up to discuss the project.
I'm still a little confused what we need at the end besides a poster, but hopefully when I meet with team monkey tomorrow, we'll give out the final parts.

GO TEAM MONKEY!

Idea 8: Is this the magic number?

I love working with my group, but we change our ideas so often we might as well be kindergartners! But its fun and our idea now seems the most solid we've had yet. Hope this one works out better than the other 7 ideas. may then rest in peace.

PCA-Oral Version

I've been working with my group on this new BE100 project, and so far, we've been having a good time hanging out and getting some work done. But its somewhat of a challenge to get all the ideas into one solid machine.
One of the biggest issues we are having is controlling safety, which has caused us to scrap a few ideas already. After all, its not so safe to be dispensing painkillers with no safety features.
I hope we can make this work out ok!

Was it really around that long ago?

I've read countless articles on the receptor alphaIIbBeta3 and am really surprised how early on it was discovered. Its really fascinating to find out how advanced they were in science 100 years ago. I tend to forget that when I see their wardrobe and vernacular. I tend to think that anything microscopic must be a recent finding, within the last 20 years. But that is wrong. And even if it is wrong, it is still hard to grasp. This report has opened my eyes a little more to the abilities of scientists +1oo years ago.