Technology

While I was debating which classes I should take in Spring, what to listen in and what I should wait, I found myself spending too much time on those choices, the bottom line is that I should use my time wisely on my study, social networking and what I am passionate about.

MIT's media-lab has attracted for several years, which you would feel like that you living in the technology fantasy world. It is not about what you can think, but what can you imagine?? Pranav's innovation has been quite hot here, but there are more. I am very thankful to live in this amazing high tech world, and glad that I am in this field.

My energy group has checked out last week MIT energy presentations, so many great things happening in Energy. I am glad that I took risks of picking energy topic and learn from scratch, instead of playing safe and staying in Software topic. So far, the most research I follow is about Lithium.

By the way, I have to mention about the survivor exercise from Human side of Technology class. Prof. Catz lets us to do a survivor exercise, suppose you all were in plane crash but all alive close by north pole, there are list of things, please rate it based on the priority of needs. After individual answer, form a group, to get group answer, the ending results are most group answers are either better or slight better than individual answers, showing the wisdom of group, But he asked us again to re-discuss to see if we could get the answers better, apparently, no single team got together to discuss. That is the point. He wants to show us that when there is task/design, team members will show the dynamics either following someone or compromising the decision to get the final plan. After the final plan is done, it is very hard to do improvement, much applied in the project mode. That is so true. If you have ever been in a IT project, you know what I talk about here. One side note, when prof. asked individual total score, the less the better surviving ability, our lowest score was from Rej, 25 points, the highest score in my class is 74, and the person was me :( after I honestly reported my score in the class, I got ear full comments, my answer was "I will sit next to Rej during the flight.".