Now that the next paper is 3 days later, I can finally slack a bit (maybe 2 bits) and have a brief AAR on the last 2 papers.
EE2010. Well, as mentioned, the concepts for this module is pretty simple, so other than the 7 marks dead time question which I have absolutely no idea how to approach, the rest I believe are correct, conceptually. However, I am very prone to stupid careless mistakes, so…
EE2009.
“Flip. 1st question Fourier series, skip!! 2nd what what what? Why got bits one, thought this is signals? Panic. Turn back to the 1st. Damn! I really dun wana start learning Fourier series now leh… Turn to 2nd question again. Hmmm, nvm let’s go see 3rd question first. Convolution! Phew…”
The paper had 2 sections, 3 choose 2 from each section. The thing about such format is that whenever you can’t do the first question, you will feel very pressurized cos you will have to be able to do the other 2. And when you realized you can’t do the 2nd one as well, you know you are screwed. Then panic. When you panic, all is lost, unless you can get back your composure after the panic attack.
Fortunately, I managed to calm myself down and finished up question 3 then skip to section B first. I was more confident of digital signals (section B’s), and chose my questions comfortably. But, the irony is that, at the end of the day, I think that my section A (managed to solve question 2 and realized it’s not as hard as I thought, just because I din READ carefully the first time round) will be better. Why? Cos I screwed up the one question that I was supposedly most confident in – sampling theory.
Now, let’s see the trend. EE2004: never panic, good result. EE2005: never panic, good result. EE2011: panic, screwed result. Ok, I am screwed for EE2009.
When studying for exams, there will be a point where your brain voltage increases until the voltage drop across the oxide at the drain brain edge equals that of the terminal voltage. This is when your brain goes into saturation mode and whatever increase in input doesn't affect the output anymore.
This is detrimental to the exam preparation as it might result in the loss of the electrons to useless stuff like msn, tv, games and blogging.
But fear not! Your brain channel length is not always a constant as what the ideal brain current-voltage relationship have assumed. Thus, due to the effects of channel length modulation, your brain current still can increase a little bit even after saturation.
But the marginal gain from saturation of the brain is very very little, so its better to let the electrons wander off and let the brain voltage drops till the linear region. It's in the linear region that your brain voltage will increase linearly with your input and thus making your learning, studying, mugging more effective.
Dun mug too hard guys, take a break once in a while and blog crappy stuff like this! Ha. =)
"The idea is to build up the solid shape indicated by the views to the left - but only using the number of cubes given. There are 10 problems, called figuur1 to figuur10. Be warned: they are not easy."
Btw, green circle means completed while yellow means completed with the given number of cubes.
I can solve all of them with the number of cubes given except 1 and 10. *Sulk*
Can you solve these puzzles? Try it here!
Oh man, exams have not even begin and I am already in holiday mood, planning for holidays and training playing winning eleven already.. Hahaha cant wait for exams to be over....sooo sian lar...
Mugging too much and need a break?
Now try to solve this brain teaser:
A family, consisting of a father, a mother, 2 sons and 2 daughters, as well as a police man and a thief need to cross the river by means of a raft.
Rules:
1) A maximum of 2 people is allowed on the raft at one time.
2) The father cannot stay with any of the daughters without the presence of the mother.
3) The mother cannot stay with any of the sons without the presence of the father
4) The thief cannot stay with any of the family members if the police is not there.
5) Only the father, the mother and the policeman knows how to operate the raft.
6) To start click on the big blue circle on the bottom right side of the window after you click the link below.
7) To move the people click on them.
8) To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.
How are you going to bring them all across the river?
Try it: Here!
24th Apr 9am: EE2010 System and controls
Concepts relatively simple, bell curve's going to be scary. *Shudder*
26th Apr 1pm: EE2009 Signals
Seemingly slack module with a light-hearted lecturer. Alot of self-learning needs to be done wor..
30th Apr 5pm: EE2006 Digital Design
An interesting and enriching module which inspired me to take on more design modules.
2nd May 9am: EE2012 Analytical Methods in ECE
Very very maths intensive, most people dread this module.
4th May 2.30pm: GEK1527 Genes and society
Basically i feel that i am quite screwed for this. The lecturer and the contents are great, just that i am spending way too little time on this.
Ah well, good luck everyone for the exams!
3 more weeks to vacation! Weeee!
There are 50 levels. Use the arrow keys to jump from key to key. Land on all the green keys to unlock the next level.
Avoid the gaps and the red keys cos you die immediately!
Blue ones will fall off once you land on them.
Orange ones will make your jumps reverse to the arrow inputs. Omgosh hate this one.
Pink ones will teleport you to somewhere else on the keyboard.
Yellow ones will teleport you to another yellow key.
Purple ones will give you boost for your next jump.
Cyan ones will give you a protective layer which protects you from red keys once.
I am currently at level 26 with 42%..
Play jellyjumper!
There was gateway1 a while back, now gateway2 is out, with more challenging puzzles waiting to be solved.
Check it out: Here!
I think this one needs abit more thinking than the previous. I have not completed it yet. Try it. =)
I was showing a friend my EE2006 Digital Design lab report yesterday and his first reaction was like: “Woah writing thesis arh you?” Well, it wasn’t really surprising he said that, it does look as if I am submitting my FYP report or something. I did put in a lot of effort into preparing that report. And my friend sort of correctly pointed out the fact that I am too passionate in the things I like.
Indeed, I am too passionate in things I like and this is my strength as well as my weakness. I am sometimes just overly passionate and I soon realized it’s not at all a good thing at times because I tend to neglect other things, or other modules in the context of studies. Maybe that’s the reason why I am so depressed and stress this semester; EE2006 is the only module I like.
I was somewhat happier last semester, many would have noticed. That’s because I enjoyed reading the 2 electronics modules as well as the 2 stats modules. And that’s probably why I screwed up my EE2011 (Electromagnetic) cos I never liked that module and that’s the only module I din like and the module I spent the least time on. This time round it’s the opposite; I have only 1 module I enjoy. It is a chore, to go through the modules I so dislike.
However, I am glad. There shall be no more compulsory core modules pre-allocated to us from year 3 onwards. I have my freedom to pursue the modules of my interest. But some people say the specialization track that I have chosen can be quite tough, I agree. IC design, who the hell wana do that? Design modules always have their horror stories behind them. Maybe it’s not going to be scoreable, but I believe I am going to enjoy it. I enjoy designing circuits and see them materialize into a real product. This is why I should not be too concern with the grades and classifications, and just perform to the best of my ability. And this should be the way studying should be, enjoy the process and heck the grades. Of course I am not saying grades are not important...well, just dun go to the other extreme..everything is about balance. =)
If you go to Google's main page today, you would have realized this Google Tisp (BETA) link:
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Sounds too good or silly (read: huh? put cable into toilet bowl? lol) to be true?
Well, it is and its the 1st of April today if you have not realized. Good one, Google. lol.
Happy April Fool's, folks.
Also check out this: Top 100 April Fool's Hoaxes of all time, starting from #64 Singapore's Y2K bug solved.
