John, our illustrious leader of my $50k team, was defending his PhD thesis in conductive polymer yesterday. Since his thesis is highly applicable to our $50k business venture, I went to his thesis dissertation (first one ever) to better understand the technology behind our business model. I thought the presentation was smooth and very insightful. I have actually been thinking about focusing my engineering part of my SDM program in material sciences and engineering lately. Consequently, I may actually take a number of electives in Course 3 - Material Sciences & Engineering (More about the rationale of this plan later...). In any case, it has been a while since I dealt with material sciences, it was actually refreshing to hear the word "volatile" in John's presentation as a substance that vaporize quickly to vapor as opposed to management's definition of "volatile".