Silence, after a hard day of school, all I wanted was to relax to the ballads of 50 cent, and I got silence. The bass must have shifted an exposed wire and shorted the amplifier, I fixed this a few times before that it almost became routine, but it was not a shorted wire. Troubleshoot, no solution, what could it be? My set up was almost perfect, lacking solely in achievable decibels. Second hand children science encyclopedias along with Questions and Answers books got me this far and for a 12-year-old of modest upbringing, my understanding of the sciences was growing rapidly, second only to the fascination that fueled it, but still silence. “The IC went bad I can't fix it,” he pointed to the IC and said “I don’t know how,” surely he should know how he is the technician, but he didn’t. Dumbfounded,a little crushed, but more so confused, “don’t play your music on max all the time,” was his advice to me. Less than an inch in area this small black square caused the
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Core concepts on transistors, amplifiers, oscillators, digital logic, and control theory, all started to come together like pieces of a puzzle reviling cohesive relationships. I was able to see the viscid relationships between concepts learned in different classes, and consequently my appreciation for the field blossomed. Under the advisement of Dr. Lee, I volunteered to do research from other departments since no such opportunities existed in ours. Although my curriculum didn't put emphasis on undergraduate research, conferences and graduate students, asserted its importance. Albeit not in a related field,I worked under the direction and advisement of researchers, from whom I learned valuable research methods and practices like formulating hypothesis, researching journal articles, data interpretation, and
Core concepts on transistors, amplifiers, oscillators, digital logic, and control theory, all started to come together like pieces of a puzzle reviling cohesive relationships. I was able to see the viscid relationships between concepts learned in different classes, and consequently my appreciation for the field blossomed. Under the advisement of Dr. Lee, I volunteered to do research from other departments since no such opportunities existed in ours. Although my curriculum didn't put emphasis on undergraduate research, conferences and graduate students, asserted its importance. Albeit not in a related field,I worked under the direction and advisement of researchers, from whom I learned valuable research methods and practices like formulating hypothesis, researching journal articles, data interpretation, and