Today is my last full day here at UCLA. It has been a good two weeks. I learned a lot of information about science and art, but mostly science. The labs were my favorite part of the experience. I think ferrofluids are really cool and I was blown away when I heard we were making […]
So today was the last day of our lives. Just kidding, just for the past two weeks. Our lives have been this class, I eat sleep and drink nanotechnology. Do you know what I was thinking about this whole class? That in some parallel universe somethings are definitely not happening and decisions are and are […]
Today was another one of the better days as we did some hands-on experiments, in addition to the daily introduction that included some many concept technologies that may be coming in the future. I found Nokia’s morph a great example of innovation and creativity as it was a convenient device that served many purpose. Another […]
PLASMA! Today we visited the UCLA plasma labs. The first machine we saw teased us. No one knew too much about the fourth state of matter but I assumed that it moved like a viscus liquid. It didn’t. we saw “flashes” of plasma in the first machine each flash lasted only milliseconds and was being […]
So, today is the last day of this wonderful program, and I am quite sorry to realize this fact. The dorm rooms are experiencing a high degree of chaos, people are running past our door at around one person per five seconds, and nobody seems to plan on sleeping. Of course the universal plan is […]
Most of the group went and saw Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince this morning at the midnight showing. I was quite exited to see it because even though I haven’t read any of the books past the 3rd, I still enjoy watching the movies. The half-Blood prince was rated PG which was kind of […]
Today we did two awesome labs. I had heard about ferrofluids only a few months before this class and thought they were really awesome. The thought never crossed my mind that I would ever make the substance and it not really that difficult. The ferrofluid only took about 20 minutes to make. After it was […]
This afternoon we had two cool field trips to the library and plasma lab. My group went to the library first. We were presented a multitude of rare and old book from authors such as Copernicus. Copernicus was the first person to present the idea of the solar system being heliocentric, however he could never […]
The midterm presentations today were really interesting. A lot of the group’s ideas were quite creative in their use of nano-technology. A few in particular were the nandage and the zombie-killing grenade(because the zombie apocalypse is inevitable). The nandage I thought was cool because it was one of the most practical useful ideas of the […]
Today the group had one guest lecturer and a few lab visits. The guest lecturer talked about art conservation, all that he has done, and the different techniques used. I never knew that art conservation was such a big thing. The conservationists do all sorts of tests on pieces of art to unlock it secrets […]