Soton
Right, i was meant to update this like 2 weeks ago, but i'm easily sidetracked.
It's actually 3pm on a Saturday afternoon while i'm typing this and i'm at my desk in the office trying to get a transverse capacitor model up and running on Simulink. Sad much? To be fair though, i haven't spent that much time this week in the office working since there are still a few compulsory induction events i've had to attend. I'm just trying to make up for a bit of lost time.
I only picked a definite PhD title last week. When i originally met my supervisor he gave me 3 topics to choose from. Two of them were a bit too deep in physics for me so i chose the one that was a bit more in my comfort zone. I'm really happy with my choice and am actually excited about doing work on it. I have been realising lately how luck i am to actually be studying here at Southampton. Regardless of the fact that i don't have any funding, it really pays for itself. The equipment in this University is insane. The new building, where my desk is, cost £100 million pounds to build and fill with state of the art equipment and it's just so cool. Also, the computer that they gave me for my desk is the highest spec machine i've ever seen, and i have 2 22" samsung monitors attached to it. So yeah, i'm really lucky.
For this semester, i'm sitting in on 2 modules, just to get myself up to speed on the basics of the technology i'll be using. I'm taking "Introduction to MEMs" and "Microfabrication". The MEMs course is interesting but i've been reading a great book at home called "Micromachined Transducer Sourcebook" which contains essentially the same information as the course, still though, it's good to have a lecturer to explain it better. I haven't attended a Mircofabrication lecture yet because i couldn't find the building this week. The layout of the campus is pretty confusing and it's extremely frustrating when you can't find a building and have been walking around for 30 minutes trying to find it.
Well, i'm going to go get myself a hot chocolate from the machine and get back to work. I'll try update again soon.
It's actually 3pm on a Saturday afternoon while i'm typing this and i'm at my desk in the office trying to get a transverse capacitor model up and running on Simulink. Sad much? To be fair though, i haven't spent that much time this week in the office working since there are still a few compulsory induction events i've had to attend. I'm just trying to make up for a bit of lost time.
I only picked a definite PhD title last week. When i originally met my supervisor he gave me 3 topics to choose from. Two of them were a bit too deep in physics for me so i chose the one that was a bit more in my comfort zone. I'm really happy with my choice and am actually excited about doing work on it. I have been realising lately how luck i am to actually be studying here at Southampton. Regardless of the fact that i don't have any funding, it really pays for itself. The equipment in this University is insane. The new building, where my desk is, cost £100 million pounds to build and fill with state of the art equipment and it's just so cool. Also, the computer that they gave me for my desk is the highest spec machine i've ever seen, and i have 2 22" samsung monitors attached to it. So yeah, i'm really lucky.
For this semester, i'm sitting in on 2 modules, just to get myself up to speed on the basics of the technology i'll be using. I'm taking "Introduction to MEMs" and "Microfabrication". The MEMs course is interesting but i've been reading a great book at home called "Micromachined Transducer Sourcebook" which contains essentially the same information as the course, still though, it's good to have a lecturer to explain it better. I haven't attended a Mircofabrication lecture yet because i couldn't find the building this week. The layout of the campus is pretty confusing and it's extremely frustrating when you can't find a building and have been walking around for 30 minutes trying to find it.
Well, i'm going to go get myself a hot chocolate from the machine and get back to work. I'll try update again soon.
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