What a day for me today..I should say. First of all, I'm still not over with this illness that I have. My left index is still swollen. Actually, I have just finished my hot compress on it a while ago and now it's covered with handkerchief after I applied white flower. It's difficult for me to type but I'm just in the mood to scribble my thoughts now. Ideas just keep running in my head and I'm just typing whatever pops in my head.
Well, my day started ok when I left the house early in the morning. I wasn't in a rush because I have moved quickly. It's different this day because the jeepneys were not full of passengers yet when I was waiting across DC Arcadia. I was able to catch the first jeep that passed and only few were inside. It's really nice to travel early in the morning because the morning breeze is just so refreshing. When I arrived at the LRT, I finally got to meet a classmate in high school and it was Leo. We shared stories of course it has something to do about what we are taking up because we're both ECE students plus news about our classmates. He's already advanced in the subjects that he has already taken up because Mapua is quarterm unlike in UST which has 2 semesters per year. We weren't able to talk much while inside the train because it's full of passengers, mostly students.
When I reached Rm. 210, I saw a only 3-4 classmates. Marc said he came second after our prof in ECE205, Engr. Barretto. It's unusual that the professor comes earlier than his students but I guess it should be that way when one is new in his work, to make good impression. But I guess, in the case of Engr. Barretto, he's just committed to his work because I can see his passion in teaching to the point of optimizing the time allotted for the subject in purely discussing the topic plus a answering a few questions from the students. I also noticed that he's really giving every bit of information relevant to the questions raised. He's that good!
After Comm1, SCL9 followed. We just had recitation this day. Obviously I wasn't able to answer a question or even attempted to answer. Nothing much happened in this subject. The discussion was about marriage. The subject that followed was ECE207 with Ma'am Asilo. We had note taking and a then discussion of the lecture plus a few ice breakers..hehe.
Early this morning I was trying to guess who our professor in Comp304L would be because it was the only subject left that we haven't met yet our professor. I was thinking that we are going to deal with computers again because of the subject itself then I realized that maybe there was something wrong with the room assignment because what's written in our reg. form is in ECE Lab A. However, ECE Lab A is an electronics lab so I thought maybe I was wrong that it was going to be like the DSP Lab. Aside from this, I wasn't expecting that Engr. Barretto is again our professor. I said to myself that it's going to be a good sem because we have good profs.
The experiment that we had was about getting familiar with the Trainer which is a logic circuit placed inside a briefcase. I guess it's donated by the CHED to UST-ECE for being a COE. Maybe next week I'll be able to post here the picture of the Trainer. Then the next experiment is the Inverter. Unlike the previous labs, I guess this will be easier.. I hope. Anyway, I enjoyed the experiments this day. I also brought home an IC which was rejected by our group because Ralph assumed that it's defected. It's a 74LS04 IC. The experiments turned out to be fine because we were able to answer everything.
It's already late..I must end this here now. Be back sooner.
Here is the photo of the Digital Trainer
This was taken during our secong experiment in Comp304L. We had circuit on OR Gate. -112306
