Its the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!!

It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little different. I normally spend a lot of time editing and crafting admissions blog posts, but today, I thought I’d just do what I normally save for tumblr, which is ramble about my thoughts and feelings until I’m done. Sometimes it turns out ok, I think. I’ve often had too much reverence for The Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I’m officially a junior (scary!) I figure Ive earned some confidence in my abilities x) First, an update! What I Did This Summer! This summer, I was in a different country every month. It was pretty crazy. For the month of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of proper nouns). I also spent two weeks hangin out and visiting my family with my mom. I hadn’t been back to China in six years, so it was really great to see everyone/everything again. Being in Shanghai really made me feel that I could easily live and work there, which was cool. My Chinese is a lot better now, and I went out into the city just on my own a lot, to explore or visit certain places or meet up with cousins and friends. In Shanghai, there was a Chinese characters version of The Alchemist sculpture that sits in front of the student center on MITs campus! For the month of July, I continued my UROP with the Media Lab. I UROP at Mediated Matter on a giant 3D Printing/Automated Manufacturing project. Basically, we’re trying to push the upper limits of size on automated manufacturing, mostly involving 3D printing (such as, 3D printing a house). When you’re trying to print something huge, you can’t have a regular printer, of course, because first you’d have to build a giant printer before printing, say, a house, which kind of defeats the purpose. So instead, we use a big robotic arm to “draw” the structure. Imagine squeezing toothpaste out of a toothpaste tube. First, you draw a circle with it, and then a circle on top of that, and one on top of thateventually, you might have a cylinder. We’re trying to use an arm instead of a traditional gantry system to do that. This is a subtle difference, but a huge one. When you have a normal 3D printer, the X, Y, and Z axis movements of the printer motors correspond pretty exactly to movements in real 3D space. But when you have an arm, the motors you’re controlling are the joints of the robotic arm, so you have to do way more math to figure out where the tip of the arm is actually moving in 3D space. What’s more is that, with an arm, there can be multiple ways to get t o the same point, and you have to be conscious of those when programming and designing, because otherwise everything will crash and be sad :( Our project happened to also be hosted at Google, so I had the amazing opportunity of being out with the team in California. I hadn’t planned it at all though; the conversation went something like this: Grad student: “Hey Selam, so we’re gonna need a lot of help with this final test print. Do you want to head out to California?” Me: “Sure!” Two days later, I was on a plane o__O For the month of August, I went to Ethiopia to continue the water well project I talk about in this blog post. I’m very excited!!! We’re finally going to start actually digging this well. For those of you to lazy to read the other blog post, basically I applied to a bunch of grants around MIT so that I could work on providing a more sustainable water source to Muti, a village in Kafa, SNNPR, Ethiopia, where my father went to middle school and many of my family members still live. I will probably write another blog post about the second trip soon! How I’m Feeling Now! I think I’ve come back each year to MIT less and less prepared for the actual first day of classes. This year, I was involved in sorority recruitment with my sorority, Delta Phi Epsilon, which I also plan to write a blag post about. It was a lot of fun, but also a ton of work, and I’ve still only been back in the country for a week. I’m feeling a little thrown into this first day of class as I’m sitting here waiting for 2.05: Thermodynamics lecture to start. 9:20AM The imposter syndrome is real. Even with all the really cool things I’ve done this summer and how excited I felt about them, I’m left feeling a little like I have no applicable skills in mechanical engineering lol. I think it’s because computer science seems more discretized in the skill sets it provides: you know Java, or Python, or have taken algorithms. Since I’m not super great at theory in Mechanical Engineering, I can say I know CAD and build stuff kinda(?) I’m trying to figure out how to talk about myself (through my resume or in interviews) in a way that is Employable(TM). I do think what’s unique is that, as a 2A-CIR (Mechanical Engineering with Robotics) major, I have a background in both computer science and mechanical engineering. So I don’t know 3: I hope everything turns out ok and I have an internship by the end of the year. 11:45PM Thermo lecture ended and I feel a bit better after talking to my dad. I’m excited again, although still nervous/overwhelmed/aggressively contemplating the future when it’s probably most useful to focus on the present, and, like, what I just learned in thermo lecture. Wednesday is my busiest day (from 9:30am-3:00pm with no breaks :( ) but on the first day we typically don’t have any recitations, which means I happen to be free for a couple hours. I’m now at clover to meet up with some of my DPhiE sisters and hang out before 6.042 lecture. From left to right, Carissa G. 19, me, and Jen S. 18. Were all wearing the same shirts because recruitment~ Everyones so cute! :3 One thing I’m really happy about for this semester is that, while I do feel less practically prepared for classes (I don’t have clothes hangers yet, still need to buy food, only got my schedule put into google calendar late last night) I do feel a lot more comfortable returning to campus than I did freshman and sophomore year. I think a big reason for that has been joining Delta Phi Epsilon as a founder and being a part of an awesome group of women. I think I’m actually a pretty social person, but I was craving more intimate and serious connections with people on campus. I did have several close friends, but I think I was also looking for a community. Each year feels very different, even right at the start. I’m hoping that junior year won’t be too stressful and chaotic; I’m hoping I’ll land a position I want in robotics or another mechanical engineering field for the summer because I really want that experience; I’m hoping I get enough funding to finish our well project; I’m hoping I can properly manage the well construction from afar; I’m hoping I can do cool things with our UROP this semester.. 12:16PM There’s a lot of things I’m hoping, and I’m nervous about them. But, it’s still good to be back. As my friend Andres S. ‘16 said when we hung out briefly in the student center yesterday (and from the perspective of someone On The Other Side of Graduation) “I missed talking to people with this kind of energy, people who are doing crazy things and who want to do crazy things. I feel like there’s no other place with people like that. Post Tagged #Muti Water Project

The Influence of Society - Literature Essay Samples

In order to fully understand the meaning of a text, different approaches are used in analyzing or interpreting literature. When dealing with Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice, one approach that is particularly appropriate is the topical/historical approach, as it stresses the relationship between the novel and its historical setting. By understanding the world in which Austen lived, a better understanding of her novel and her characters can be reached. Through the character of Elizabeth Bennet, most importantly, Austen both could reveal her own feelings about her society and satirize the practices and beliefs held by the upper classes. Although often considered a Victorian author, Jane Austen lived during the time of the Romantic Period, from 1775 to 1817. The era was turbulent. As Reidhead writes, England experienced the ordeal of change from a primarily agricultural society, where wealth and power had been concentrated in the landholding aristocracy, to a modern industrial na tion (Reidhead 2). This was the beginning of what was called the two nations- the division between the rich and the poor in England (Reidhead 4). In terms of social structure, the Industrial Revolution witnessed the triumph of a middle class of industrialists and businessmen over a landed class of nobility and gentry (Cashell). Varying degrees of economic independence, social influence and power created firm distinctions between the classes. The gap between the upper and middle classes is especially apparent in Pride and Prejudice between the Bingleys and the Bennets. Mr. Bingley is financially well off, having inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father (Austen 11). Like Mr. Bingley, those who were born into wealth usually stayed wealthy throughout their lives because of inheritance. In addition, individuals who belonged to the middle or lower classes tended to be reminded of their status by those who belonged to the upper class. Mr. Bingle ys sisters demonstrate this in their reaction to Elizabeth Bennets appearance, as it created a great deal of surprise. That she should have walked three miles so early in the day, in such dirty weather, and by herself, was almost incredible to Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley (Austen 23). Elizabeth was thought less of because of her less-than-proper behavior. Similarly, Elizabeth and her family also experience the ill favor of Lady Catherine De Bourgh because of their social status and lack of wealth. Lady Catherine describes Elizabeth as a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world and without family, connections, or fortune (Austen 231-232). By underlining the pretention and snobbery of the nobility, even toward families as sympathetically-rendered as the Bennets, Austen lampoons the British upper classes. Her critique makes sense in the context of the time: Aristocrats often held the belief that a powerful family, connections and a fortune were what made a person wo rth something. It is clear that Austen depicts the harsh realities of the society in which she lived throughout the novel. As difficult as it was to belong to the middle or lower classes, being a woman in the eighteenth century had similar disadvantages. Women were provided only with limited (or no) schooling, were subjected to a rigid code of sexual behavior, and (especially after marriage) were bereft of legal rights (Reidhead 5). When it came to the education of women, the attitude was that their education neednt be of the same extended, classical and commercial character as that of men (Womens Rights). Lady Catherine De Bourgh shows this attitude when she questions Elizabeth on her lack of education and creative outlets: Do your sisters play and sing? One of them does. Why did you not all learn?-You ought all to have learned. The Miss Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as yours.-Do you draw? No, not at all. What, none of you? Not one. That is very strange. But I suppose you had no opportunity (Austen 109).Lady Catherine only inquires Elizabeths talents in playing instruments, singing and drawing, not in the intellectual education that a man would be expected to receive. This is because the professions, the universities, the politics were not open to women (Womens Rights). For the most part, women were instructed toaccept that their roles in life involved child rearing, housekeeping, and nothing more (Reidhead 5). Women were also not permitted to ever live alone. Women were dependent on their male family members to secure their future in case their husband treated them badly or they did not get married at all (Womens Rights). Lady Catherine supports this regulation as she states young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life (Austen 139). This also explains the reason that Miss Bingley [was] to live with her brother and keep his house, as she was still unmarried (Austen 11). To sum it up, women survived by pleasing and charming if they were in the middle classes (Weldon 35). The most practical way for women to survive was to be married. Many women were willing to marry just because marriage was the only allowed route to financial security or to escape an uncongenial family situation (Womens Rights). This was certainly the case with Elizabeths best friend, Charlotte Lucas. Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune (Austen 83). Charlotte finally receives what she wants when she accepts Mr. Collins proposal. She tells Elizabeth, I am not romantic you know, I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collinss character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair, as most people can boast on entering the marriage state (Austen 85). Charlotte, like m ost women in the eighteenth century, treats marriage as a business arrangement rather than a decision out of love. Similarly, Mrs. Bennet makes it the business of her life to get her daughters married (Austen 4). She is afraid, like many women, that if she does not marry her daughters, they will not be taken care of when she and her husband pass away. Far from limited to fiction, her worries were echoed by other women across eighteenth-century Britain. Despite the attitudes of many of her contemporaries, Jane Austen had a range of opinions on matters like love and marriage, which she showed through the character of Elizabeth. As most of the other characters throughout the novel are complying with the demands and expectations of society, Elizabeth refuses to treat her life as a business endeavor and follows the desires of her heart, not of society. Importantly, Elizabeth turns down a marriage proposal which would have been a very good decision to accept from an economic standpoint. When talking with Mr. Collins, Elizabeth explains that my feelings in every respect forbid itbecause she is not in love with him, she cannot accept his proposal (Austen 74). Unlike her friend Charlotte, and most women of her time, Elizabeth refuses to be married unless it is out of sincere love for another. This is definitely the opinion of the author. As Harding writes, we know too, at the biographical level, that Jane Austen herself, in a precisely similar situation to Charlottes, spent a night of psychological crisis in deciding to revoke her acceptance of an advantageous proposal made (Harding 298). When Elizabeth does decide to marry, the union between herself and Mr. Darcy is not only to their mutual advantage, but brings together widely separate outlooks and social positions (Duckworth 308). Mr. Darcy, being very well off financially, does not hold the same beliefs that are held by his aunt, Lady Catherine, when it comes to people of the middle and lower classes. He chooses to look past the prejudices and the labels that society pins upon groups of people based on their social and economic status; he loves Elizabeth for who she is. Elizabeth does the same as she learns that individuals should not be judged by what others say about them or by their reputation. Thus, Darcy and Elizabeths marriage bridges the gap between the upper and middle classes. Yet it also reveals Austens idea of a truly good marriage arrangement. Austen proposes that one must rid themselves of all pride, and of all prejudices, in order for this kind of great union to be attained. With this idea, Austen shows herself to be ahead of her timebut still shaped by it.Works CitedAusten, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton Company, Inc., 2001. 3-254.Cashell, Brian W. Middle Class. Wikipedia. 20 Mar. 2007. 18 Apr. 2007 .Duckworth, Alistair. Pride and Prejudice: the Reconstitution of Society. Rev. of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. 306-315.Harding, D.W. Reg ulated Hatred: an Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen. Rev. of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. 1998: 296-299.Reidhead, Julia, ed. The Romantic Period. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2006. 1-22.Roberts, Edgar V. Writing About Literature. 11thth ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education, Inc., 2006. 299-302.Weldon, Fay. Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. 33-42.Womens Rights. Wikipedia. 19 Apr. 2007. 18 Apr. 2007 .

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Research can be generally described as the systematic enquiry that seeks answers to a problem or the methodical study that seeks to prove a hypothesis which aims to refine existing knowledge and generate new knowledge. Consecutively, we encounter research in our everyday lives. In fact information and knowledge disseminates to all different platforms and is mostly only deduced from the results of a research. We will write a custom essay sample on What is Research? or any similar topic only for you Order Now These research findings can be presented on various platforms such as the social media and the broadcasting media. From the TV programs we watch, newspaper articles books we read, reports we synthesize—we assess the information, make our own judgments, then decide our choices—yet although unaware of it, we ourselves would seek answers, confirmations, and validities from these research findings based on different considerations that must have taken influence into forming our conclusions; to name a few: what how we understand the problem, the way the findings are presented, why the research was conducted, and how the findings relate to us. In short, the fact that we acquire knowledge and information and make our decisions from it illustrates that research is a cyclic pattern that we deal in our everyday lives, even if we’re not aware we’re doing it. As Socrates have once said, â€Å"Life without inquiry is not worth living for a human being.† It is at this very mantra lies the essence of research. It is at the awareness of our own ignorance that stems the need to know, the need to inquire, that we question things which results in gathering knowledge. However, it must be significantly noted that the act of just gathering and confirming data is not considered research, as the data collection itself is what’s crucial in the research process. This further expands as to how acquiring knowledge is the most crucial part of the research process. Research begins when we wonder—when we want to critically know something. It doesn’t mainly regard in knowing the (absolute) answers, but to rather increase our understanding and to provide solutions. Research provides the information and knowledge that helps us in solving problems and making decisions. This practically guides us in facing real-world problems, whether by carrying it out to further our knowledge (pure/basic research) or by applying pre-existing knowledge (applied research). Although there are many ways of acquiring knowledge such as from our experiences and logical reasoning, the scientific method is the most sophisticated and reliable. All in all, the research process can be generally seen as a linear progress of identifying and formulating a problem (research topic), clarifying the problem or research topic (review of related literature) , clearly stating your question/s and hypothesis (statement of the problem) ,designing your research and planning strategies ,collecting data , analyzing the data by exploring relationships, and lastly ,drawing conclusions and acknowledging the limits of your research. It is important to acknowledge that the process of research is not dependent on following this linear pattern as new ideas arise and practical problems are presented in the process. That’s why regardless of the route taken, we need to significantly be aware of the most effective research method to choose that can best provide information in developing our question/s. Research excites me because it correlates directly to new discoveries and to the history. From the beginning till the end, it is an exciting adventure because you are directly involved to what you are doing and to what you want to know, and it is the most rewarding as you can never know what new knowledge or information you could gain in the end. Research is also the foundation of learning. Our everyday personal and professional experiences may lead us to identify or encounter a problem that we would like a solution or an answer—thus implicating the essence of research. We gather, assess, apply, and renew all together our ideas as new knowledge and information is found. In history, research helps to explain the past events in relation to predict the future events. Research is also what makes sense of the world. Theoretically and/or practically, research is the main basis of the process of seeking answers from problems, whether relying on scientific principles and assessments or in different modes of other disciplines. Mathematically and economically, it is also the practical basis of our decision-making in our lives. Theories and basic laws are also tied in research whether through different approaches (social research). Different discussions are evoked through research thus mainly influencing the basis of our knowledge and beliefs. We always learn because it presents new challenges and new results that provoke new discussions that follow new topics for new researches. It’s also interesting how a research, in time, can be done simultaneously by different people which then can be presented in different contexts depending on its relevance and on how it correlates to the particular time and situation (scientific discoveries). It creates the framework of understanding that helps us to further understand the relationship of the existence of this world to the information and knowledge we acquire. These all illustrate how research is an evolving process—as new knowledge and information arises, we grow for the betterment of our world. Research then, as I abstractly conclude, is the essence of the world. How to cite What is Research?, Papers