January 4, 2010
This fall, I took a psych class, Sensation and Perception, with Brett Fajen. The class focused on how our perceptions of the world (primarily through the vision system) are formed and altered. One part of the course involved designing and conducting experiments to measure the abilities and find the limits of human perception.
I designed two [...]
March 30, 2009
It took a bit longer than I would’ve liked, but I’m now registered for the classes for the fall. It may have had to do with the layoffs in December or the non-rehiring of annual faculty, but my registration process was plagued by restricted and filled up courses.
Regardless, I was able to get into classes I wanted. This [...]
January 14, 2009
My spring semester at Rensselaer began on Monday, and I think it’s off to a great start. My Economic Analysis of Technical Change class looks really promising. My professor described it as the ‘economics of knowledge’ and said it was his favorite course to teach.
My other classes look good, too. Cost-Benefit Analysis seems like an extension of [...]
November 3, 2008
I just finished registering for my Spring ‘09 classes here at Rensselaer. I’ll be taking Models of Computation (sort of a computer algorithms course), Economic Analysis of Technical Change, Cost Benefit Analysis, and Differential Equations. By the end of next semester, I’ll have completed my minor in Economics.
Absent from my schedule for next is semester is [...]
October 22, 2008
I made a few changes to the site last night. First, and most importantly, I added a new item to my portfolio. Secondly, I added a little widget that displays the 5 most searched terms on Google, courtesy of Google Trends. Thirdly, but unrelated to the site, I’ll be choosing courses for my Spring 09 semester.
Since [...]