Any college student has to deal with a concept of the 'bubble'.  I'm not talking about the soapy bubbles that you probably blew when you were 5 years old.  This bubble is more of a shield, a shield that is strong during freshman year but slowly decreases is size, or thickness, and becomes more vulnerable […]

First off, thank you to the random person who followed my blog a few weeks ago (Emily I believe), reminding me that this exists and something needs to be done about it.  In case you have lost all belief in my writing, I would like to take a second and shed a little light on […]

I'm usually not good at girl talk (obviously), so you're probably wondering why I'm writing about Girl Talk.  Actually, I should note, we're not going to talk about girl talk like this girl talk: We're going to talk about Girl Talk.  Girl Talk looks like this: Girl Talk is actually Gregg Gillis.  Now if you're […]

This one's a little weird.  It's about using things...unconventionally.  Unconventional inventions are nothing new to nerdy engineers likes us though.  For instance in 1905, 11-year-old Frank Epperson accidentally left a wooden stick outside sitting in a cup of soda.  That night, the temperature dropped below freezing.  He came outside the next morning and removed the […]

This is a blog about two things.  One is the field of engineering, which is seen as a rigorous discipline combining the two wonderfully interesting (depending upon your personality) fields of math and science.  The other, is the beautiful.  But just to spark your interest as to why I might be writing about engineering and […]