Starting today I will be actively participating in MIT IAP. I am taking 2 for-credit courses - Electrochemical Processes of Materials and Graduate Writing Workshop. As a TPP student, I have to take the graduate writing exam which was administered to most incoming graduate students at MIT (oddly enough not to MBA and SDM students) at the beginning of each Fall semester. I received a decent grade and was not required to take the writing workshop. Nonetheless, I am going to take it since I will be using this class as a motivation factor to writing my thesis proposal. It is also a good opportunity to have my writing critiqued by a writing instructor.

My motivation for taking Electrochemical process is to understand the fundamentals of electrochemistry and how fuel cell or other new novel electrochemical processes in the industry work. This class should complement my knowledge on material science and nanotechnology that I plan to accumulate while I am at MIT. Besides I have heard that Prof. Sadoway is an accessible and animated professor. I am looking forward to this class. The first class starts next week but being an accelerated course, the students were already given assignments to work on earlier today. We were instructed to invest several hours to reading the textbook in advance of a lecture. The textbook, however, isn't cheap - it costs $120 (shipping included) from Amazon.com. Thinking smart, I checked the MIT library website for that book and found 2 copies available. I scrambled to the library to pick the book up. 15 minutes later, I found that they were all gone from the library. At the self where the 2 books were supposedly placed, I can clearly see an empty space of about 2 books wide in an otherwise untouched section of the self. Darn it, someone beat me to it. I eventually settled for a brand new one from Amazon.com.

1/4/2006 10:30:36 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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