All week I’ve be ulcerous over the progress of my DC-DC Buck-Boost power converter group project.  Just yesterday I was lamenting that my group members wouldn’t get anything done unless I was there to direct their ev’ry action.
Imagine my surprise today when my colleague Arash informed me that he had completely finished the project last [...]

It’s almost time to head back home to Algoma for Thanksgiving.
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for a long time will remember that car trouble kept me here in Platteville last year.  Besides a few weeks around Christmas, I’ve been living here for 2 years straight.  Thinking about this, I’ve realized that Platteville [...]

After great delay, I finally made the requests for letters of recommendation that I blogged about earlier.  In the end, I sent emails after all.  I didn’t want to make it difficult for them to demur if they decided I was not worthy of the letter.
Whence comest this shyness that wracked me?
This is, in many [...]