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Final Exams :(
Exhibit A: Week of hell Yup, that’s my final exam schedule. Back when I was a student at UBC, finals were spread out during the first 2 weeks of December. Depending on what courses you take and your...
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Last Months of the Last Term
Soooo, I’ve been MIA from this blog for about three weeks. Sorry. I’ve been busy with class and final project work and scheduling work among all this. And really, I’ve been trying to escape from the...
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Final Architectural Design of the Semester!
Hey everyone and happy December, happy Holidays, happy SCHOOL IS OUT and happy Christmas (or whichever celebrations you may do!) I am so thrilled to be out of school for the year and have holidays...
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Review: Electronic Textbooks (VitalSource Bookshelf)
With only a week left before school starts again, I thought I’d touch upon a topic that every student has to deal with: textbooks. We all know how heavy textbooks can be. It’s one thing if we can leave...
View ArticleFIRST DAY OF CLASSES
Hello Everyone out there???? How was your winter break?? Mine was fun filled with retail work and hanging out with family and friends. I still cant believe its going to be my final term at BCIT doing...
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Using a Tablet for School
I’ve never been the type to bring laptops to class. Every laptop I have ever owned has been 15” and too heavy to lug around regularly, so I’ve always relied on printing my own notes and limited...
View ArticleLife in an Italian University so far!
Ciao everyone! Wow, so far school has been much better than expected… Only because I was so nervous about my Italian language skills, thinking no one would talk to me, and thinking I would get lost and...
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Analysing Foreign Cities (BCIT’s Architecture exchange to Italy!)
Ciao everyone! So this week, I have realized that studying at BCIT and studying in a University on the other side of the world have many different (and many of the same) things to offer! There are so...
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Urban Planning Project!
Ciao! So I have been writing about things other than my schooling and my own projects lately so I guess I’d better write about something I am doing at school this time! Right now one of the projects...
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How can I describe my Italian exchange in one blog?
Wow, this is my second to last blog and I figure I should maybe try and sum up my academic year and my international exchange to Italy. But how? I don’t even remember what I did two days ago and this...
View ArticleStandardized Test Methods – an Intro (Part 2 of 3)
(Continued from Part 1 of 2) As a technical school, BCIT has a fairly good collection of standardized tests. The tests are pretty pricey to get on your own, so it is best to always check with the...
View ArticleStandardized Test Methods – the fun part (Part 3 of 3)
(Continued from Part 2 of 3) Now that I’ve gotten my hands on the precious test standard(s) I need for my experiment, what next? I follow it. Or try to. This is a whole other adventure in itself. As...
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The One with the Great Pumpkin
Happy Halloween everyone! Day of the dead cookies Hope everyone had a fun day! Halloween is always a holiday that creeps up on me (wordplay intended), and I always end up rushing a costume! This year,...
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Follow-up post 2: Fright Night
Happy November everybody! So i went to fright night on the first of November, and had an awesomeee time. For those who are curious to know if I got scared: yes I did. The group of us only managed to go...
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Halloween Sugar Rush
Hello once again! I hope everyone had an awesome Halloween day/week. As you can see with all the candy above I had lots of fun. So our program course registration was this weekend for the Winter 2014...
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Ventilation
Hey guys, So today’s post is going to be a little different. I’m not going to be talking about Ventilators (which is a medical device that BMETS look after), but rather I am going to do some venting....
View ArticleMy Computer Programming (C) Video Project
Hey guys, For the programming course I am taking, we were asked to make a video discussing programming. The topic is so vague, so the different ideas that everyone had was astronomical. Anyway, without...
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Scavenger hunts and award ceremonies
Man, how is it over halfway through November already?? Checking my email this morning, I was greeted with a reminder that finals are only three weeks away. Yikes. While I severely enjoy all the...
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Acoustical Tests in a Reverberant Chamber – Part 1
I spent most of my October outdoors (doing laneway house acoustic tests across Vancouver’s residential neighborhoods), enjoying the gorgeous tree-lined autumn streets and mesmerized by leaves that...
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Acoustical Tests in a Reverberant Chamber – Part 2
Continued from previous post. It was probably the most physically challenging project I had ever undertaken. Most of the equipment involved were very heavy and required moving around and transporting...
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