Funny... Now that I am more engaged with MIT, my life has just become more interesting - and so the incentive to blog more regularly. Today marks day 3 of my IAP at MIT. Sadoway's Electrochemistry class was, once again, exciting. I struggled with my reading on kinetics and mass transfer of electrochemical reactions last 2 days but I think I have a better grasp of the concepts after today's class.

Other than the for-credit class, today's IAP activities are mostly self-discoveries of a great MIT resource - the library. I checked out an iPod containing some 800 sample tracks that were taken from CDs in the Lewis Music Library. I also attended a workshop on EndNote, a powerful software tool allowing writers to create and to manage a database of bibliographic references. It can be integrated to Microsoft Word and Latex to generate citations and bibliographies seamlessly in one's manuscript. Better yet, attendees were taught tricks to download references to published literatures from various journal databases via the MIT library. Great class. What I have learned today will probably save me hours of work in citations and bibliography generation in my future thesis and papers. I urge anyone who is or will work on a thesis to attend this workshop.

1/11/2006 7:28:16 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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