My research is frustrating. Power engineering is such an unfamiliar realm of study for me - still. My undergrad electrical engineering background did not really cover concepts of power very in-depth; very few undergrad electrical engineering programs do, unfortunately. The concepts of power converters and power system dynamics fascinate me. But ( Read more... )

How many times have I been down this road before, both here and in my undergrad ( Read more... )

When I tell people I'm gay, it's not because I'm trying to make myself feel special, or elicit sympathy or a sense of superiority from those who are not gay. It's because I don't feel like lying to someone about who I am ( Read more... )

[Cross-posted from my McGill Grad Life blog]

My friends often make fun of me because of how obsessed I appear to be with schedules. And, yes, I will play on this by pretending to be some sort of crazy OCD, superbly self-disciplined machine who sticks to his schedule AT ALL COSTS. But, the harsh reality is that I’m not at all this obsessive ( Read more... )

Neither Gmail nor Facebook are working for me right now. I feel like a chicken with its head cut off right now. I wonder if this is what the end of the world will be like. Just a vast emptiness of server error messages and blank internet browsers. Maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll actually get to see some impressive fireball or tsunami or some other ( Read more... )

My schedule is insane - in a fun way (so far...). Three grad-level courses + Thesis work + Work at CEATI. My schedule won't even fit into the 8am-8pm workday that I allot for myself; rather, I have myself working until 11pm on Mondays and Thursdays in order to fit in the hours of study time and thesis work that I require myself to set aside.

Of ( Read more... )

Sigh... school starts tomorrow.  I have an early day tomorrow for work.  And, here I am trying to get to sleep on a 25-degree night with the fan on.  Gawd, I hate hot, sticky nights.  And, I hate lying down trying to sleep in a pool of my own sweat ( Read more... )

I have decided to take a vow of online news abstinence ( Read more... )

Life occasionally sucks. But that does not give you the justification to vent your frustrations via a long incoherent train of text messages. I do not want to read your life story in the form of 160-character text messages. If you would like a medium on which to vent your current frustrations, might I suggest a LiveJournal. And, may I also ( Read more... )

This weekend was so awesome. Which is good, since it is the last weekend before a pretty busy semester at McGill ( Read more... )